Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 2 | But it 's whether , whether the officers do that and start the consultation or whether it 's done by P A G , I 'm getting a shaking of the head here , I think it needs a political decision as opposed to anything else . |
| 3 | Indeed the " United Front " was further restricted by an NAC decision on 16 February " to limit co-operation with the Communist Party to specific objects as agreed upon by the representatives of the two parties from time to time " . |
| 4 | He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence . |
| 5 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 6 | Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society . |
| 7 | If a job starts in normal hours and runs into overtime , that time should be charged at the quarter hour rate . |
| 8 | I saw a pool-table , a polythene-wrapped three-piece suite , various devotional ornaments and gewgaws with their special pale glow . |
| 9 | a system designed for a specific user and to work as an integrated unit . |
| 10 | Reynolds worked to win the church political esteem and influence through its contributions to affairs of state . |
| 11 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 12 | It was not just economic weakness that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | She 's just got him out of prison after making all that money and going through all that shit for him , he finally comes home , and all he wants to do is watch the match on the telly . |
| 14 | you can actually have that money and give to your daughter , okay ? |
| 15 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 16 | And the world over there are Alfa Romeo dealers who share a passion for fine cars and the highly refined technical skills that go into them . |
| 17 | A bargaining strategy is the broad framework or plan for obtaining your overall objective . |
| 18 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 19 | Most common discussions of political authority presuppose existing political institutions and ask under what conditions do institutions of that kind have legitimate authority . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't bear it , that tenderness that came across so like loving . |
| 21 | People with mental disorder are no different from anyone else in wanting to live in good , decent housing , and local authority housing departments and housing associations are often willing to discriminate in favour of mentally disordered individuals in making properties available for rent , provided they can be assured that tenants will receive the right support and help from skilled professionals when they need it . |
| 22 | Another important purpose was to use the village Soviets as gates through which peasants would enter into wider administrative experience and escape from the stifling parochialism of the mir and the skhod . |
| 23 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 24 | The news is up-to-the-minute snippets tom from the agency printers , hastily rewritten by junior sub-editors and thrust under the disc jockey 's nose . |
| 25 | He now sat slumped in his chair , fate having painted a faintly mocking smile on to his clammy skin that spoke of joy at having outwitted his executioner . |
| 26 | By this time the wiring was a complete write-off and had to be replaced during lengthy repairs . |
| 27 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 28 | Some further evidence of the complexities involved in handling the problems of the relationship between social and economic change and change in the family comes from accounts of the way in which families handle problems of migration in societies undergoing processes of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 29 | It leads unerringly over an intervening ridge and descends to the A.82 at the head of Glen Coe , providing excellent views throughout . |
| 30 | Seminar participants agreed that communication — including the ability to listen and hear , as well as to inform — is a key element in the struggle to overcome political apathy and to advance on the road to democracy . |