Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All these accusations , rebuttals and counter-accusations are largely covert and known in detail only to the prince or chief whose judicial oracle confirms or refutes all witchcraft-murder accusations ; hence the same death appears in different guises to the various parties concerned .
2 As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing .
3 This creature ( hereinafter referred to as the Blessed Dawg ) possesses a divine expression of sadness , perception and sensitivity which many humans do not possess .
4 The subcontractor should also be required to co-ordinate with other trades and phase his own work to integrate with the sequence of operations in the contract programme .
5 Another important finding of the study was the confusion and ambivalence which these carers exhibited in relation to role reversal .
6 Today we are more able to understand and appreciate the sound principles of diet , hygiene and medicine which these laws express .
7 Finally , we have a cultural anal trauma associated with pastoralism and monotheism whose modern adult equivalent is obsessional neurosis and whose pre-Oedipal focus lies in the anal-sadistic phase .
8 Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables .
9 Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " .
10 When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut .
11 No-one who sees a golgi-stained preparation of neurons can fail to be awed by the complexity and elegance their branching patterns reveal .
12 The Gloucester ski racing team are out on the slopes training all winter … except this time we 're not high up in the Alps but right here in England in Telford in shropshire … this is artificial snow … its the only slope of its kind in the country … and to save money and time our young racers are coming here to train …
13 Many informed commentators in England also take this view that the GCSE relates to an approach to secondary school curriculum and selection which social change is rapidly rendering inappropriate ( see , for example , Nuttall , 1985 ) .
14 A characteristic of subdivision is an attribute or property which all concepts in a given facet have in common and by which isolates can be grouped .
15 By using a set of standard terms for all its contracts the business can achieve many of the benefits of a detailed contract for all its transactions , without incurring the costs and trouble which individual negotiation would involve .
16 The Report stressed the need for a nationally recognized form of certification and recommended the establishment of an autonomous body for vocational courses in art and design whose validating functions should resemble those of TEC and BEC , thereby enabling it where necessary to devise suitable courses as well as receiving submissions from colleges .
17 The demanding schedule of a soap meant that Kylie was often working 12 hours a day and spending what little time she had left in the evening reading her script .
18 It invites denigration , even denial , of the link between physical care and care for the whole person whose body needs tending , and therefore of the knowledge and skill which such activities may require .
19 ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’
20 It was observed : ‘ In most villages of the realm there is some one dresser or worker of leather , and in most of the market towns iij or iiij or v , and many great towns and cities x or xx , ’ and indeed , with cattle and timber its chief products , the Weald was a natural location , and local bark , of which colliers and ironmasters had plenty to spare , was much in demand by tanners .
21 As a fashionable spa town during the last century , Baden bei Wien attracted royals and noble hangers-on , who came in droves to take the waters and cake their aristocratic frames in healthpreserving mud .
22 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received in connection with state schools in west Norfolk .
23 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received about education in Northumberland .
24 Visit your hairdresser and book your final appointment
25 They are also considering modifying the questions on race and culture which some respondents say must reflect the needs of children from minority ethnic groups more closely .
26 Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement .
27 The PNP coordinator idea , whatever its problems and imperfections in practice , represents a vision of professional collaboration , development and decision-making which primary schools can ill-afford to abandon , least of all in the era of the National Curriculum .
28 More resources are devoted to aspects of fiscal welfare than to cash benefits or service delivery and they are allocated in ways that pervert what individual service policies are seeking to achieve .
29 If nostalgia for another age is high on the list then there are hotels of special quality and character which still offer the sort of service and ambience which were the hallmark of the grand days of travel .
30 Although she kept Alison so firmly , as in some austere yet not malevolent discipline , at a distance , she could not hate her , even felt a companionable pity observing the discomfort and guilt which proud Alison could not altogether dissemble .
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