Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
| 2 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 3 | It is this which leads to low levels of profitability and to a lack of incentive to undertake new investment . |
| 4 | ‘ I am a partisan of the idea of two inter-governmental conferences , one dealing with economic and monetary union and related institutional reform by the end of 1991 , and another which deals with European political union , one or two years later or even at the same time , ’ Mr Delors told MEPs in Strasbourg yesterday . |
| 5 | At this she burst into loud laughter that sounded rather like the hooting of a siamang and slapped her thighs with her hands . |
| 6 | This she did to good effect because she came to know French , German , Italian , and Latin well and to read Spanish , Norwegian , Danish , Welsh , and Early English . |
| 7 | In Act I Scene V she calls to evil spirits , showing that she realises human feelings must be obliterated in the fight for power . |
| 8 | Gold shares , though far dearer than they recently were , are still attractive to some who reckon on rising prices . |
| 9 | This applies not only to the small number of the very old who live in three-generational households , although that throws up some particular issues and problems , it is equally relevant when there are triangular interactions , such as husband , wife and old person , or to situations when the old person lives alone but is closely supported by kin . |
| 10 | We have a classless society ; to this we point with considerable pride . |
| 11 | It had always been one of his Walter Mittyisms to run a restaurant , and this we discussed with extreme earnestness . |
| 12 | This we read with great interest , but at the time my husband merely made enquiries about leaving his body for medical research and was told there was not a teaching hospital near enough to accept him . |
| 13 | Earlier chapters have drawn out some of the consequences of this peculiarity ; this one turns to procedural matters , and to the way in which the involvement of third parties , once an obstacle to the legal recognition of trusts , was turned into a virtue and one of their greatest strengths in the legal enforcement of testamentary dispositions . |
| 14 | I think this , this one refers to Blind does n't it . |
| 15 | Least disposed of all to complain were the Vietnamese , who pocket £2.6 million in hard currency from this sale and who in 1991 lifted a second wreck , this one jammed with late Ming Thai ceramics , off Phu Quoc Island . |
| 16 | this one set of social relations , of production , accounts for the relations in other spheres of social life within each locality or region , that politics and ideology are essentially explicable in terms of economic change and restructuring . |
| 17 | This one focuses on underlying developments in accumulation . |
| 18 | Where a firm does provide services to a private customer on written contractual terms ( whether a two-way customer agreement required by the rules or a non-mandatory one used for commercial purposes ) , the agreement must set out in adequate detail the basis on which those services are provided . |
| 19 | There is always someone somewhere who is going to say — ‘ Why must we have fund raising ? ’ — Unfortunately because of the financial climate today it is always going to have to be a part of our Medau way of life — anyway this ‘ do your own thing ’ method has proved so popular we plan to continued in to 1986 with your help , of course — but — if you have any brilliant ideas for our next venture please send them in to the Office . |
| 20 | In this they differ from local authorities in many other countries , which have power to do anything which is not forbidden by the constitution or the national law . |
| 21 | This they achieved with stunning success , building up a trade several times the size of their previous home market . |
| 22 | So it would seem that children may assist one parent to care for the other who might otherwise go into a home , but apart from this they have to residential homes for some while caring for and thus avoiding the admission of others , and that these two influences cancel each other out in the statistics . |
| 23 | In this they agree with environmental groups and a growing number of scientists and energy experts . |
| 24 | The less effective the words are in identifying relevant features of context in that sense , the more dependent they become on grammatical modification of one sort or another . |
| 25 | If there are tendencies that are different they relate to reduced inter-firm mobility for men between the ages of 25 and 45 , and the opportunity for some blue collar workers to experience wage profiles that arc in the West generally confined to white collar professions . |
| 26 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 27 | All this he told to Glorious and his friends . |
| 28 | This he unveiled with grinning blatancy whilst clasping his wife ostentatiously round the waist . |
| 29 | I had no idea that Dad could drive a horse , but this he did in great style for of course he had spent his boyhood on various farms . |
| 30 | This he did by hard work , love for cricket and an exceptional organizing ability , which in 1953 resulted in the founding of the Danish Cricket Association of which he was chairman for 18 years . |