Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 2 | In such contests everyone concerned was fully aware that there was much more at stake than an annual office . |
| 3 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 4 | Chairman the erm proposals in the what was the submitted plan in reference seventy nine read er Policy three , Subject to the provisions of Policies I four I eight and I nine there will be a general presumption against development in open countryside except for the purposes of agricultural policy and recreation and other uses appropriate to a countryside location . |
| 5 | Policies I five and I twelve provide for land for employment in the period up to two thousand and six , while in the T policies , the opportunity is taken to update road schemes in the county . |
| 6 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 7 | Throughout our discussions my Working Group was very anxious to compose chapters which would make clear our rationale to teachers and politicians of good will . |
| 8 | Erm paragraph twenty one , we 'd certainly oppose any move to give local authorities the right to cease homes of travellers erm especially in view of the shortage of the good pitches I that is just totally and I do n't think that that 's on , I hope we can oppose that . |
| 9 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 10 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |
| 11 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 12 | At times my skateboarding skills astounded me : zipping around corners , weaving through obstacles etc . |
| 13 | In two months my two albino Oscars have grown from 1″ to 3–4″ , feeding well on pellets , until recently . |
| 14 | Over the next four months my Green Chromides flourished , attaining an average size of approximately 4½″ . |
| 15 | However , as fortune would have it , when I put my ear to M. Dupont 's door , I happened to hear Mr Lewis 's voice , and though I can not recall precisely the actual words I first heard , it was the tone of his voice that raised my suspicions . |
| 16 | I was ready and dressed in my white blouse , grey pinafore dress , grey tights my new black shoes and green cardigan . |
| 17 | Claudia nodded , unable to put into words her intense love and longing for Roman . |
| 18 | A prime example this year has been the committee 's extensive concern with the prospect of standard fees being introduced in the magistrates ' courts , with the risks which that will bring to the most junior members of the profession . |
| 19 | It is to protect non-smokers from the health risks of passive smoking — risks which all those concerned with the welfare of employees , or the public at large , are having to face up to . |
| 20 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 21 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 22 | Those who manage the company do not own the company , If the managers of the company display the characteristics which economic theory credits to all other individuals they will be concerned to maximize their own utility rather than the profits of the company . |
| 23 | Henry Maudsley in the 1860s , for example , developed the notion that masturbatory insanity was characterised by intense self-regard and conceit , extreme perversion of feeling and corresponding deranging of thought , and later by failure of intelligence , nocturnal hallucinations , and suicidal and homicidal propensities , all characteristics which doomed the boy to social disaster . |
| 24 | Dressed in religious vestments their dry delivery and material was new and original . |
| 25 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 26 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 27 | Instinctively she took a step away from him , her senses reeling as she felt the blood drain away from her face , and heard the buzzing in her ears which forewarned her that she was near to fainting . |
| 28 | The Stanford School of Medicine ( which has some 8000 animals in stock ) and the University of California-San Francisco claim that ‘ the legislation creates a great irony by increasing the number of animals which each year will be euthanased instead of being transferred to research facilities . |
| 29 | You may find that the animals which first come to the microhabitat are eaten by animals which arrive later . |
| 30 | For many fans their only chance of getting a coveted Wembley ticket was to collect all three vouchers and hope their numbers came out in a draw . |