Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He recovered his rudeness , and said , " I do n't care what sort of bloody birds you 're after . |
4 | There is no hint here of structural explanations , still less of critical analyses of alternative political and economic strategies which might be held to ameliorate , if not cure absolutely , unemployment . |
5 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
6 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |
7 | Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met . |
8 | In telephone calls and private meetings they are saying : ‘ Do n't do anything to rock the boat . |
9 | In Le Voyeur ( 1955 ) , the intense preoccupation with specific objects which the travelling watch salesman displays — the figure-of-eight patterns , the girl 's neck , the rope , the cinema poster — is contrived to function as an index of his guilt : Mathias is incriminated by the narrative , although his guilt is never proved conclusively . |
10 | Other Labour proposals which the RICS disagrees with include an end to the submitting of duplicate planning applications and a review of development plans every two years . |
11 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
12 | By the time of the Middle Ages when the two swords of the secular and the spiritual were sheathed together in ruling Christendom , the official spokesman for orthodoxy , St Thomas Aquinas , could declare : ‘ Heresy is a sin which merits not only excommunication but death , for it is worse to corrupt the faith which is the life of the soul than to issue counterfeit coins which administer to the secular life . |
13 | In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise . |
14 | We provide a full sailing programme with rescue cover at least six hours a day ; we do n't allow sailing in strong winds without rescue cover , so if level 5 sailors ( can carve gybe ) wish to sail outside normal hours they must arrange alternative rescue cover . |
15 | But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon . |
16 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
17 | There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is |
18 | On the one hand , it can be seen as a discipline , indeed perhaps the oldest of all disciplines , with its own core of sometimes highly technical activities which are peculiar to it , and the normal organizational manifestations of departments , chairs , courses , degrees , and so on . |
19 | Despite the conflicting accounts it is clear that Richard had the upper hand and that William des Barres lost his valuable war-horse . |
20 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
21 | Instead you list some possible rewards he may be gaining from the phone calls : |
22 | Powder coatings , because they require no solvents , are environmentally friendly products whose market share is growing even in a period of overall slack demand . |
23 | So , it 's strongly recommended that you cultivate the use of chromatic notes which resolve to diatonic ones , both scalic and chordal . |
24 | The basic political conflicts which are likely to decide the fate of the world today have little to do with nation-states , because for half a century there has not existed an international state system of the 19th- century European type , but an essentially bi-polar world organised round two superpowers . |
25 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
26 | The resulting at-seat light refreshment services provided an ideal foothold for the private operators whose involvement in railway catering the government was urging . |
27 | Many of the specific meanings which can be deciphered out of the symbol are not activated because they are not indexically required . |
28 | Chinese design is also unusual in that its motifs often have very specific meanings which can be literally translated into philosophical sayings , desirable personal qualities or magic charms aimed at promoting health , wealth , happiness or long life . |
29 | The potential for future economic growth depends partly on innovations in production technology , to reduce costs and , crucially , on innovative products which create new markets in themselves . |
30 | 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 . |