Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 2 | Since the CTP is so flawed as an explanation of the mind and since its apparent attractions are apparent rather than real , how does the claim of that science to advance our understanding of the mind command such a following ? |
| 3 | The Hartlepool Express Laundry ( 861–086 ) goes all over the North-East and although its main customers are businesses , it 's attracting an increasing number of private customers as word spreads . |
| 4 | The company warns that it can cost up to £75 a day to hire a replacement car and if your own vehicle has to be transported home the bill is likely to be about £400 . |
| 5 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 6 | Whilst the relative decline of manufacturing was not a direct consequence of the expansion of services , there are obvious questions relating to the manner in which the relative attractiveness of services make it difficult for manufacturing to recruit high quality labour and whether their geographical concentration reinforced metropolitan attitudes within central government administration and , thus , indirectly worked against a clear understanding of regional industrial decline . |
| 7 | What I would hope that we could achieve in this country is more through erm opportunities for disabled people , greater opportunities for disabled people to gain access into work and as my honourable friend knows , we have put forward some proposals we 're presently considering the position following the representations that have been made to us after the er new access to work scheme was announced and I hope to make an announcement on that aspect shortly . |
| 8 | Philosophers have been primarily preoccupied with the scientific status of psychoanalysis and whether its therapeutic claims can be substantiated . |
| 9 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 10 | The judge had taken the view that , because of the absence of any improper conduct causative of B making his admission and because his psychotic state was not known to the police , section 76(2) had no part to play . |
| 11 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 12 | Because they retain their leg-like character and since their positional value is changed from proximal to distal , toes form . |
| 13 | Aenarion suffers a mortal wound and as his last act flies to the Blighted Isle and drives the Sword of Khaine back into the altar . |
| 14 | The word reverberated round the church and as its final syllable faded on the air another ‘ Dayenu ’ came close on its heels . |
| 15 | When a vase emerged unbroken — especially the tall storage amphorae for oil and water-when its millennia-old husk of mud and chalk was scraped away , it appeared to Davide like a living body released from the torpor of an unnatural sleep , from a kind of illness , its rounded shape tender , pointing a foot , like an absorbed peg-doll , its intactness a triumphant resurrection . |
| 16 | He had lived his life in dependence on his heavenly Father : if he was to give a true representation in human terms of the nature of Yahweh , then he needed to live , as man , in constant obedience to Yahweh both as his anointed Ruler and as his obedient Servant . |
| 17 | The 1895 visit to Swindon , in place of the summer term at St. Paul 's , repeats an earlier pattern in Edward 's life between schools before he won a scholarship to Battersea Grammar School and while his youngest brother Julian was born into the already over-crowded house at 61 Shelgate Road . |
| 18 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 19 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |