Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd swear of course that he 'd never again steal me from my proper duties with the children . |
| 2 | The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship . |
| 3 | I now planned to discuss my proposed modifications with the lads before leaving camp . |
| 4 | How could the centre " maintain its administrative ties with the masses to ensure adequate national defense and tax collection ? " . |
| 5 | Thus , dependence on and interaction with this wider constituency encouraged the intelligentsia to harmonize their visionary programmes with the aspirations of the masses . |
| 6 | By exposing the story of the silencing of women which underlies Herodotus 's project , the novel demonstrates that ‘ originary myths ’ are at the heart of factual descriptions about the world , and that in this sense women , by virtue of their historical ties with the discourses of fiction , have a privileged relation to the voice of knowledge . |
| 7 | If the families believe that they can enjoy their social hours with the territorials , they will support their men and womenfolk and encourage them to maintain their membership of the Territorial Army . |
| 8 | In November 1971 the Council set up a committee to consider its future relationships with the colleges — ‘ to consider what changes are desirable to afford greater independence to polytechnics and colleges in planning and operating courses leading to the Council 's degrees ’ . |
| 9 | Petty 's next appearance was as a member of the Leveller team in its renewed negotiations with the grandees and their allies in November–December 1648 . |
| 10 | Their closer ties with the masses , their unprivileged background and often grinding poverty , made them more acutely conscious of the oppressive conditions of Imperial Russia . |
| 11 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 12 | The CDS leader , Adolfo Suárez , acknowledging that his party no longer represented a viable government alternative , said that the CDS would remain in its existing alliances with the conservatives until the May 1991 regional and municipal elections were over . |
| 13 | Most of the CEB men , Hacking included , saw as one of the great prizes of nationalisation the possibility of escaping from the voluntarism which had characterised their former relations with the undertakings . |
| 14 | As we have seen , there were already deep religious tensions in society at the time of the Restoration , between separatists who wanted toleration , Presbyterians and moderate Anglicans who wanted a comprehensive Church settlement but no toleration , and hard-line Anglicans who wanted the re-establishment of the Church on their own lines with no concessions to either Presbyterians or separatists . |
| 15 | I want my staff to sort out their own difficulties with the kids . |
| 16 | Where there is close liaison between ward teachers and the school of nursing , and where ward experience is part of a planned programme , this information will be available from previous teaching ; but where these conditions do not exist it is necessary for the clinical teacher to carry out her own checks with the students before the teaching can be planned . |
| 17 | Very fine he and his men looked in their feathered bonnets with the pipes playing . |
| 18 | Furthermore , many of the first incomers had ( and still have ) a rather cosy view of life in Shetland , they pursued the meaningful ‘ community ’ : as a consequence , these individuals tended to establish their closest relations with the bearers of Shetland tradition , the older Shetlanders . |
| 19 | Her bright tone brought a reluctant smile to Faye 's lips , then she dabbed her swollen eyes with the tissues Belinda gave her and tried to struggle to a sitting position . |
| 20 | Instead of giving a clear internal height of 6.9 ( 22–1/2ft ) ( extending up into the apex of the roof space ) , headroom beneath these two trusses was reduced to 4.4m ( 14ft ) at the junction of their curved braces with the tie-beams , thus denying the opportunity to install two storeys of habitable accommodation at these points . |
| 21 | At the lunchtime Christmas dinner Tina , Jean and Hilda decided to wear their new bonnets with the flowers all round . |
| 22 | As a result , neither industrial capitalism nor its " improved " form , state socialism , proved able to coordinate the development of their productive forces with the possibilities and potential of the biosphere . |
| 23 | Most important of all , he will have good liaison with the local social services department , who can draw all the threads together and link his elderly patients with the organisations that can best meet their needs . |
| 24 | Travels in the Congo records his first-hand encounters with the brutalities of French colonialism . |
| 25 | Even if the media did inflate the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , even if Callaghan was unlucky when the Scottish National Party chose to commit political suicide in revenge for the failure of Labour 's devolution proposals , by supporting the Tories ' ‘ no confidence ’ motion in the Commons , Callaghan 's procrastination and the effects of his autocratic dealings with the unions were surely the main factors weakening the credibility of Labour between 1978 and 79 . |
| 26 | Resentment at the younger Despenser 's dominance at court , and his own links with the marchers who formed the core of the opposition — his daughter Elizabeth married the son and heir of Roger Mortimer , eighth Baron of Wigmore [ q.v. ] , in 1316 — may account for this dramatic change of sides . |
| 27 | Shell was an outstanding offensive tackle during his 15 years with the Raiders until his retirement in 1982 , when he became an assistant coach with the club . |
| 28 | De Klerk said that in his recent meetings with the Presidents of Zaïre , Mozambique , Côte d'Ivoire and Zambia , all had agreed that South Africa should play a positive part in regional co-operation and development . |
| 29 | The governor 's life is also complicated by his past dealings with the tribes . |
| 30 | His fleshy paunch was hanging over his sweaty jeans with the legs of his trousers clinging to him with the viscosity of four week old socks sticking to the bedroom wall . |