Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 … |
| 2 | What is the total distance he walks each day ? |
| 3 | I 've a sneaking suspicion he bins any letter that criticizes his government , before he even reads it . |
| 4 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 5 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities . |
| 7 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 8 | 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 , |
| 9 | At a superficial level it produces incompatible definitions so that , despite their having the word in common , Thompson and Anderson use ‘ class ’ in different ways . |
| 10 | Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution it boasts award-winning museums , heritage sites and first-class accommodation in beautiful Shropshire countryside . |
| 11 | In other parts of this small tomb he paints reclining banqueters , such as are constantly found on Etruscan tomb-walls and Greek vases , following the old conventions , though he puts much more variety into the expressive faces than is found anywhere else . |
| 12 | The only , the only thing it has short days |
| 13 | In her spare time she does some translation from French . |
| 14 | In his spare time he reads social science journals and contemporary Hungarian literature , or cooks for his family or friends . |
| 15 | Being an alkaline-loving plant it requires some calcium content . |
| 16 | She infers from this : ‘ thus , in the appropriate real-life situation he learns concrete activities , not abstract generalisations ’ ( ibid. p. 170 ) . |
| 17 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 18 | However , the enforcement agent in a compliance system regards prosecution as a sign of failure , where in a sanctioning system it becomes visible evidence that he has done his job . |
| 19 | He has not forgotten that and at his end-of-season party he gives each member food , drink and a T-shirt . |
| 20 | In the New Testament it means total allegiance . |
| 21 | Liturgy has power to blend people into community and in the Catholic school it harnesses active participation between pupil and teacher both in preparation and celebration . |
| 22 | When the Bank of England issues new currency it obtains interest-earning government securities in return . |
| 23 | Quality : If a firm makes a component rather than buys it from an external party it has greater control over the quality of the component . |
| 24 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 25 | He tricks its members into thinking they are part of a revolutionary network extending across Russia , and at the local level he generates pseudo-purposeful activities which culminate in Shatov 's murder . |
| 26 | On the one hand claiming Darlington is in such a bad state it needs more Government help , on the other claiming the town is a thriving local centre . |
| 27 | This type of remembering , which comes unbidden , through the sense of taste or touch or smell , is what Marcel of course calls ‘ involuntary ’ or ‘ affective memory ’ , and in contrast to intellectual memory it recaptures past experience in its lived immediacy . |