Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 2 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 3 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
| 4 | In the first place , of course , the survival of autonomous and independently-minded political movements threatened his personal authority and could , in the long run , undermine his very position as Head of State . |
| 5 | While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays . |
| 6 | The truth is that political leaders project their image nowadays in ninety-second ‘ sound bites ’ on radio and television . |
| 7 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 8 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 9 | During February the United States-led allied forces continued their extensive and largely unopposed air campaign against Iraq and against Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait . |
| 10 | But we can be sure of one thing : before the end of the century we will see the telephone metamorphose into the mobile audio-visual communications centre it has long had the potential to become . |
| 11 | Some profitable European organisations find their way into the Times Top 1,000 Companies ( published annually ) . |
| 12 | ‘ My aunt lives in Hastings , so my bloody overprotective parents thought it would be OK for me to come to Sussex . |
| 13 | After a warning from President Lech Walesa on July 3 that he would name a Cabinet himself if a majority government were not immediately forthcoming , eight political parties accelerated their negotiations and proposed Hanna Suchocka as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 15 | It has been observed , for example , that British firms find it easier to persuade workers to accept redundancies but harder to obtain flexibility of working practices and job demarcations than do their French counterparts . |
| 16 | I began to see little old ladies clutching their pension books and garages called Krash Kare and Oxfam shops and Salvation Army hostels . |
| 17 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 18 | For what may be ‘ bossiness ’ in the home can turn out to be a valuable contribution of efficiency and ‘ drive ’ in a different setting , working with a team of strangers , where the usual social restraints keep it under reasonable control . |
| 19 | ‘ Please God , make Wayne better , ’ she was saying over and over again , then started as Little Chef stood up on his stumpy back legs to lick her hand . |
| 20 | At this stage in the period preceding the Budget , he will not expect me or any of my right hon. Friends to say anything about specific tax matters . |
| 21 | On the other hand , its independence was seriously curtailed and its affairs were firmly controlled by the monarchy ; fifteenth-century English kings appointed their own bishops , regularly taxed the clergy , and used parliamentary legislation to limit clerical immunities . |
| 22 | Amnesty International issued urgent appeals calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to clarify his fate and whereabouts , and to provide assurances that he will not be ill-treated or executed . |
| 23 | The assumption that they are not neglected , and that cultural values ensure they will be cared for adequately , has been challenged by Norman . |
| 24 | Again , an analogy with women 's potential for more intense and prolonged sexual pleasures suggests itself . |
| 25 | And the passion with which the surviving English monks defended their past and resisted change must have seemed to him simply a final proof of mental and spiritual decay . |
| 26 | It remains to be seen exactly what pricing measures Intel will take with either Pentium , because of its continued delivery problems , or the 80486 , because of the recent court ruling letting Advanced Micro Devices ship its 486 clones — see opposite . |
| 27 | It remains to be seen exactly what pricing measures Intel will take with either Pentium , because of its continued delivery problems , or the 80486 , because of the court ruling freeing Advanced Micro Devices to ship its 80486 clones . |
| 28 | That sense of disintegration which he always feared was now all around him ; earlier in 1938 , he had told Martin Browne that public events made him feel that he was working against time and that , in any case , the race might be lost . |
| 29 | Police at first used rubber truncheons to prevent them , but then stood back . |
| 30 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |