Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 5 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 6 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 7 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 8 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 9 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 10 | Although a human geographer who has specialized in the analysis of urban systems particularly using entropy-maximizing models , in this book he recognizes three types of system and applies them to both physical and human geography . |
| 11 | From this position he has two options on how to play the short ball . |
| 12 | Yet , paradoxically , in another way she has more experience than most . |
| 13 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | This way he knows live trees are being felled , but he does n't know who 's felling them . ’ |
| 15 | Its aim is to bring the machine to the market by late 1993 , and in order to achieve this goal it needs additional engineers . |
| 16 | This self-obsession , the looking inwards and away from the real world , represents a full circle turned in approximately twenty years , and this time it has official sanction and encouragement . |
| 17 | In today 's second round she meets ninth seed Dutch player , Claire Wegink . |
| 18 | In his 1991 paper he reviews subsequent studies and states that ‘ there seems little reason to alter this interpretation at present ’ ( Deffenbacher , 1991 , p.388 ) . |
| 19 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 20 | ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; … |
| 21 | For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination . |
| 22 | ‘ A person who is or has been … a member of the security and intelligence services … is guilty of an offence if without lawful authority he discloses any information … which is or has been in his possession by virtue of his position as a member of any of those services … |
| 23 | What is the total distance he walks each day ? |
| 24 | I 've a sneaking suspicion he bins any letter that criticizes his government , before he even reads it . |
| 25 | Based on Berkeley BSD4.3 Unix and built on Carnegie Mellon Mach 3.0 foundation it supports all Macs from Powerbooks up and runs off-the-shelf Apple applications whilst simultaneously running Unix programs . |
| 26 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 27 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities . |
| 29 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 30 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |