Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
| 2 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 3 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 4 | FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM don the wide brimmed hats and cover themselves in flour for two nights of doom laden entertainment at London 's Town & Country Club on March 29 and 30 . |
| 5 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 6 | In other words , management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder . |
| 7 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 8 | Vocalists had to bob down out of the way during instrumental breaks , and those unfamiliar with recording technique had to be man-handled by the recording director to bring them close to the horn on low notes and push them further away on high notes . |
| 9 | There would be problems about fixing the boundaries of regional authorities and providing them with finance — a regional rate would scarcely be popular . |
| 10 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 11 | Another article to show much ingenuity in spotting small-scale correspondences and diagnosing their significance is that by John Irving , who aligns well chosen items of keyboard music ( and some consort music ) by Byrd and Tomkins to illustrate the extent to which the younger composer applied ( among other influences ) principles of ‘ creative reinterpretation ’ ( p157 ) of Byrd 's procedures in the development of his own personal style . |
| 12 | With the Hughes — Ryan Act of 1974 , Congress endeavoured to impose some discipline on the CIA by requiring the agency to obtain presidential approval before embarking on covert operations and obliging it to notify eight different Congressional committees either before , or soon after , such operations commenced . |
| 13 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 14 | The great business of the geologists of the middle of the century was to settle the strata , making geological maps and connecting their relative dating schemes across the world . |
| 15 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 16 | And while such mundane things as fluctating interest rates and ever-increasing gas , electricity , water bills remain on the scene , it 's a strong possibility that ‘ wider and deeper ownership ’ will be hampered by thevery economic policies that spawned it . |
| 17 | What is it about local economic policies that make them ‘ local ’ ? |
| 18 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 19 | He was shown unpublished essays and given his own room to work in . |
| 20 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 21 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 22 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 23 | The company is also said to be cancelling personal computer-based projects and turning its resources elsewhere . |
| 24 | Abrams ( Bulmer , 1986 ) drew attention to the complexity of the concept ; many who are perceived as altruistic will themselves acknowledge the profound satisfaction which they derive from their supposedly selfless activities but find it difficult to put this into words . |
| 25 | They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees . |
| 26 | The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction . |
| 27 | He took her wrist between impersonal fingers and consulted his watch . |
| 28 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 29 | However , make sure you have recovered all of the stolen objects and returned them to their curators . |
| 30 | Lift a few leeks , parsnips and other overwintering vegetables and store them in a shed in case frost prevents you lifting them from open ground . |