Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is still space for genuinely national economic , political and cultural-ideological practices , but the global capitalist system increasingly marginalizes such practices , making them commercially irrelevant . |
| 2 | So it is not surprising that each field-worker tries to select an unstudied people , or if that fails , a community whose present circumstances render them acutely interesting for ‘ theoretical reasons ’ . |
| 3 | In addition , they are flame-resistant , making them most suitable for furnishing fabrics . |
| 4 | Employers who have attended students ' debriefing sessions have found them most illuminating . |
| 5 | Moreover , they have been trained to serve and you will find them most helpful . |
| 6 | He realized the importance of kinship systems for the Indians and how for them most social relationships were seen in terms of who was the child of whom and who was married to whom . |
| 7 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 8 | By this time , some are up to 14″ — but because the original outlay on stock did n't break the bank , Ken can offer them remarkably reasonably-priced . |
| 9 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 10 | Charred-edged holes appeared in their skin , while behind them little dry chunks of flesh fell into the powdery dust that covered the ground . |
| 11 | All them little starry lights that comes out at night , well , they 're not much help , are they ? |
| 12 | Loosely used in practice , these concepts , as they enter academia , become subjected to a concerted effort to force them to lie down and behave , to render them properly scientific . |
| 13 | They had high opinions of their value on stage , which made them rather undisciplined . |
| 14 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 15 | Oh yes we saw the the news reports found them rather disturbing erm we thought we 'd do something to help and decided on a fashion show . |
| 16 | He thought them rather silly for not understanding how the trick was worked . ) |
| 17 | ALL ABOUT Eve are quite happy to see one of these albums released and the other one makes them rather mad . |
| 18 | She was a typical Fifties phenomenon , a celebrity contrived out of sex appeal and publicity alone , both of them rather naive and innocent by the standards of subsequent hype and hoop-la . |
| 19 | My grievance against our present masters is that , quite frankly , I find most of them rather common . |
| 20 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 21 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 22 | Second , he considered himself responsible only " before God and History " and , therefore , exonerated from accountability to mere mortals , especially when , as in this case , he considered them hierarchically inferior . |
| 23 | While such attitudes disappoint the police , officers do n't find them wholly surprising . |
| 24 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 25 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 26 | Size , colour and perfection of form help to influence the value attached to pearls , but it was their ‘ orient ’ which made them outstandingly attractive to men of many civilizations . |
| 27 | Certain kinds of shares have features which make them economically similar to debt . |
| 28 | In 1985 , 21,838 women received reduced rates of benefits , of whom an estimated 78 per cent would have been unlikely to have had any independent entitlement to any other benefit , thus rendering them economically dependent upon their partners ( unpublished statistics , DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It sounds to me intensely cruel . |
| 30 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |