Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | No particular doctrine is intended and if my expressed conclusions attract adverse comment , or my suggestions are ridiculed , it is sufficient that discussion and consideration took place with the aim of helping the many unfortunate people of our country who are at present without hope . |
2 | My French colleagues had considerable reservations about the agenda ICAO had circulated to member States and wished to have certain other matters discussed , including the definition of an accident . |
3 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
4 | Forgive me if I omit intimate personal details included in the American list — such as whether Y-fronts will be in or out — but I have failed in my mental attempts to undress either man . |
5 | I 'd originally gone to Czechoslovakia to photograph pollution but I 'm so glad I was pursuaded by my Czechoslovak friends to spend three days out of my precious two weeks walking in the Slovenský Raj . |
6 | Thus my twelve eggs have inversive symmetry . |
7 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
8 | Until recently I should have rejected the premise that my earliest years represented some sort of attack upon my individuality and insisted that , on the contrary , I was surrounded with kindness and loving care — as indeed I was . |
9 | My own experiences echo these difficulties . |
10 | He was the one to approach me — none of my other employees expressed that kind of interest in the project . ’ |
11 | Somehow my two feet had different ideas about direction . |
12 | My two grandchildren arrive this afternoon with their nanny . |
13 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
14 | Actors and actresses , who spend all their professional lives creating fictional atmospheres , do not stint themselves when real opportunities come along . |
15 | Not the basement from which they 'd come , with its shattered windows giving further access to this horror … not the service/access corridor with its hideous wall-bound parody of Farley Peters … but the door next to the basement door marked : ‘ Stairs ’ . |
16 | Their working contexts impose certain limits on what they are able to do ; for example , on how many journalists they can employ and on how much news space they have on the paper . |
17 | These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects . |
18 | By concentrating public attention on the training , employability and motivation of the unemployed , the Government hope to divert attention both from poverty and personal hardship experienced by claimants and away from the failure of their economic policies to create enough jobs . |
19 | Known as ArtsLink , the programme has two components : its Collaborative Projects support American individuals or groups of up to five people seeking to collaborate with counterparts in Eastern Europe on projects in the visual , performing and media arts , architecture and design or literature . |
20 | The trend now is for UK-based companies to have their European subsidiaries release key personnel for intensive training in English in the UK to help improve their all-round performance once they return home . |
21 | Using lean production , the authors found the Japanese required just over half the engineering time , half the number of people , and only two-thirds the lead time as their European rivals to produce similar cars . |
22 | Simultaneous with the emergence of the swept wing shape and its cambered sails stretched either side of a central spine , there were other innovations which arrived during the same development period . |
23 | They were highly regarded by the farmers , both for their local knowledge and their strenuous efforts to have this knowledge understood and used by the MAFF scientists in Whitehall . |
24 | ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages . |
25 | I am persuaded by the majority of legal opinion , which suggests that Britain , her people and her political leaders retain ultimate control over their own destiny . |
26 | The Novas 1 , 4 , 5 , 11 , 12 and 13 have new electrode designs , electronics , software and mechanical components and their improved capabilities include smaller sample size , upgradable test menus and automatic flagging of abnormal results . |
27 | No doubt it was very vexatious to Lanfranc , especially since he doubted whether their so-called saints deserved this title at all . |
28 | However , if such probes were programmed so that , each time they encountered a planetary system , they located a suitable asteroid and from its raw materials built several replicas of themselves , which were then despatched to further stars , the chances of success would be staggeringly increased . |
29 | Their transnational linkages created new problems but also a new role and function for government ( 1987 : p. 193 ) . |
30 | Guy 's cool , wolfish enjoyment of their flirtatious smiles triggered another maelstrom of confusion inside her . |