Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university . |
| 2 | Having completed the pit , look for signs of compaction : vertical roots turning 90 degrees to the horizontal at a particular level , or a layer which just looks hard and compacted , or a wet , grey or blue band between one and six inches deep . |
| 3 | Apart from Perrot , whose Giselle has survived , we have little or no idea what these choreographers were like . |
| 4 | The empirical evidence suggests , however , that the supervision which institutional investors exercise over the management of a company is minimal and can not be regarded as a sufficient control over the managers of large public companies . |
| 5 | For McLuhan argues that the way our cognitive apparatus works is determined by our ‘ sense ratio ’ , the balance between inputs to the various senses ( aural , visual , tactile , and so on ) . |
| 6 | But we must also recognise that the assessment which British Rail has carried out is deeply inadequate . |
| 7 | Rachaela thought that the mistake her own mother had made was in her brainwashed attempts to care for and become involved with a child she did not want . |
| 8 | I ask you if you like me and you tell me you ‘ fancy ’ me — is n't that the word you British use to describe a lustful attraction ? ’ |
| 9 | Rachel Carson realized this : her argument was based not upon idyllic sentiment , but upon the fear that the artefact which modern agriculture was creating was neither safe nor to our own long-term advantage . |
| 10 | Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession . |
| 11 | And we know that the tumour I first saw has got less . |
| 12 | However , my enthusiasm for authenticism in general and Norrington 's performances in particular should not lead readers to assume that the moment his latest CD goes in the tray I 'm all set to start spraying stars around like confetti . |
| 13 | More generally , Blum ( 1981 ) concluded from an examination of 27 countries that the form which industrial relations takes in any one nation does markedly reflect the culture of which it is a part . |
| 14 | It is reassuring to note that the burden which such women carry has been more widely recognised and discussed in the past 10–15 years . |
| 15 | A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done . |
| 16 | Cressid , I love thee in so strained a purity , That the blest gods , as angry with my fancy , More bright in zeal than the devotion which Cold lips blow to their deities , take thee from me . |
| 17 | Hardly thrilling , but 27 times funkier than the crap their former manageress does today . |
| 18 | In other words , they are reacting to the ‘ coalness ’ or ‘ oilness ’ of the chemical , rather than the chemical itself This theory stretches credibility considerably , because synthetic compounds go through so many chemical reactions , distillations and purification procedures that they bear little relationship to their raw materials , let alone to each other . |
| 19 | He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion . |
| 20 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |
| 21 | It was right that the poor Jewish scholar should marry the daughter of the richest local merchant , because it was unthinkable that a community which respected learning should reward its luminaries with nothing more tangible than praise . |
| 22 | He believed that a place which respected horseflesh would not be wholly comfortless and as he had horses this applied to him . |
| 23 | The effect on us that every year our General Secretary during the finance debate , asks Congress to approve increases in contributions . |
| 24 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 25 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 26 | It is understandable , in terms of natural selection , that an animal whose natural habitat is the underside of stones should congregate in the dark : but bow do they do it ? |
| 27 | What generally happens in practice is that an applicant whose total score is above a certain level would normally get credit automatically . |
| 28 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 29 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 30 | He wrote that he thought every day of home , the rice and palm trees along the roads and the way his little brothers ran around making enormous noise . |