Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reference was encouraging to many of the Shah 's Iranian opponents who interpreted it as the presidents support for their struggle against the Shah . |
| 2 | The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question , studying one bit at a time , and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle . |
| 3 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 4 | In both the first stages of the African Mathematics Programmes and the Regional Programmes which followed it , very considerable investment was made in both initial and in-service teacher training and international ‘ Institutes ’ designed to promote a cadre of university staff , teacher trainers and inspectors capable of carrying the momentum of the project . |
| 5 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 6 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 7 | Can we persuade departments of the need to ensure that creation of such directories is mapped , and that the terms of reference and composition of working groups which created them are adequately documented ? |
| 8 | ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman . |
| 9 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 10 | And that if such openings ensue that there are supportive rituals which allow us to engage in them without offence and terminate them without insult . |
| 11 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
| 12 | The judicial statistics of the late nineteenth century provide more precise information , but they must be carefully assessed in light of the social , economic and administrative settings which produced them . |
| 13 | The doomed one was fragile and childlike between the tall stoic guards who led her to her fate . |
| 14 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 15 | In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it . |
| 16 | She 's totally loyal to Charles , absolutely discreet and sees it as part of her duty to provide Charles with those emotional satisfactions which set him up . ’ |
| 17 | She connects psychological variables like parental contact and control , extended family and peer care and contact , the girls ' autonomy and responsibility , their hostility and suspicion towards the world , and their early sense of themselves as adult women rather than children , to specific social , political and economic oppressions which affect them . |
| 18 | It 's a remarkable musical full of tuneful songs which give it a romantic and charmingly French flavour . |
| 19 | There is also a degree of ambiguity in Doisneau 's finest pictures which allows them to be interpreted in a variety of ways . |
| 20 | On their return to the hotel , the three were caught climbing a security fence by armed guards who mistook them for Scotland fans . |
| 21 | Greenock 's are among the most handsome I 've seen , each one ‘ owned ’ ( some by veritable dragons who guard them watchfully ) . |
| 22 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 23 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 24 | If conventionalism is to provide a distinct and muscular conception of law , therefore , with even remote connections to the family of popular attitudes we took it to express , then it must be strict , not soft , conventionalism . |
| 25 | Loretta would be able to recognize the road by the high hedges which flanked it . |
| 26 | The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space . |
| 27 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 28 | All groups are invited to send resolution which may or may not be actually debated but erm , we , we do n't normally send one in , but some , some groups they send them in , no , no one 's thinking |
| 29 | You do n't really I mean I think I do n't know maybe working for a char firm of chartered surveyors you have I mean it 's the same system is n't working as a dogsbody and then maybe |
| 30 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |