Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strictly speaking , we are interested here only in one part of the market , that part which supplies local authorities with short-term ‘ money ’ through bills and deposits . |
| 2 | A rather vicious English GHOST which haunts ancient sites of keeps and cases along the Scottish border . |
| 3 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 4 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 5 | And it is the climax of this struggle which precipitates social revolution and the transition from one social formation to another . |
| 6 | And if a commercial building which suffers multi-million pound damage also happens to be a ‘ prestige ’ target , then so much the better . |
| 7 | There is an initial high adherence of Ac-ASA to the cell matrix followed by a linear rise which represents true uptake by the cell . |
| 8 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 9 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 10 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 11 | Also , this method can achieve the same accuracy by using a best-few search which explores more alternatives during portions of the utterances where credibility is low . ’ |
| 12 | It is because we wish to strengthen the Government 's hand against a fairly well organised industry which seeks universal general increases that we make a series of recommendations in the report , to which I shall come in a moment . |
| 13 | There is a potential civilised nature to Ireland , and it is this side which asks English help . |
| 14 | The crucial point about rules , as opposed to habits , is the critical reflective attitude which justifies hostile reactions and , ultimately , sanctions . |
| 15 | This analysis also helps to clarify another issue which taxes some commentators . |
| 16 | A French subsidiary which does some development is already up and running in Paris with 12 employees — a German operation will follow . |
| 17 | On the other hand , like any moulded surface of this type it has fat needles , rather than the brush-type filaments of a normal plastic slope . |
| 18 | In fact , underpinning this remarkable find is the coincidence of an almost simultaneous archival discovery which proves this painting 's descent , right back to the man who commissioned it from Caravaggio himself . |
| 19 | First is the issue of sex determination : how the law is to deal with changing scientific opinion which challenges old certainties , and the legality of medical procedures designed to deal with abnormal sexual conditions . |
| 20 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 21 | The term ‘ violence ’ includes conduct intended to cause physical harm and conduct which might cause harm ( such as throwing a missile towards someone ) ; and , for the two most serious offences of riot and violent disorder , ‘ violence ’ bears an extended meaning which includes violent conduct towards property . |
| 22 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 23 | It is this group which has greatest acquaintanceship with the facts and techniques of sex and sexuality and the least inhibition surrounding them . |
| 24 | It may be that the user has submitted another package which references this module which must be approved first ( thus causing the error to be replaced with QA OK , after this module has been approved ) . |
| 25 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 26 | It is the memory of this event which generates further anxiety . |
| 27 | Perhaps instead of asking questions about the neighbours , you can yourself be the old person who lives next door : I know you 're very busy [ acknowledging and supporting what they 're already doing ] but I wonder if you could help me ? |
| 28 | I suppose you could access the switching of channels by means of lots of ordinary footswitches , to increase your remote control of the Quad , but with a dedicated footswitch at this price there seems little point . |
| 29 | The demi-caractère style has its roots in classical technique , but must be coloured by more clearly defined and individual movements which allow the dancers to show they are playing the part of some character who has some claim to live in the real world and therefore can be recognised as such . |
| 30 | The more detailed and precise analyses on which these conclusions are based are taken from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ' 1976 Family Formation Survey ( Dunnell , 1979 ) , the latest available major national survey on this topic which includes detailed housing and fertility histories , but we simply do n't have more up-to-date evidence on which to make judgements . |