Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council is also proposing an Advanced Award in Social Work which will be based on a system of credits taking into account both post-qualifying training and practice . |
| 2 | The remedy may not be to delay criminal law teaching to a later stage in curricula , because the observations already made might well apply to whatever introductory course in substantive law one selects . |
| 3 | This view has been superseded by the concept of the thoracic pump , whereby sternal compression causes a generalised rise in intrathoracic pressure which is selectively transmitted to the arterial circulation because of closure of the venous valves . |
| 4 | Furthermore , a longitudinal study which charted the progress of children in discordant homes , also reported by Rutter , documented the marked reduction in psychiatric risk which followed a substantial improvement in the home environment , when compared to the progress of children remaining in unhappy , quarrelsome homes . |
| 5 | Clare Lawrence ( Mrs Hatcher ) writes , ‘ Since qualifying as a solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial work in private practice I worked in industry 1986- 8 as a Legal Director of Bricom plc . |
| 6 | Based on historical fact , superbly blended with fiction , this account of the Invincible and the Phoenix Park murders , deals with a brutal incident in Irish history which , at the time , turned many people against the cause of land reform . |
| 7 | Admiring Durkheim 's stress on the need for community , Eliot wrote that , ‘ For the savage or the civilized man , a solely individual existence would be intolerable : he feels the need of recreating and sustaining his strength by periodic refuge in another consciousness which is supra-individual . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a Scottish guy in this bakery I go to and he tells me they love me in Scotland . |
| 9 | These artistic predilections went hand in hand with a marked interest in aesthetic theory His notebooks of 1862-for instance , contain comments under the heading " On the Essence of Music " , which are probably notes for a two-part Germania essay on " The Demonic in Music " , and , again , a set of Emersonian reflection on Nature , beauty and art . |
| 10 | If we lost our political influence in this area we should suffer a great economic setback . ' |
| 11 | Contempt carries a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment , and is the only serious crime in English law which is triable by judges alone . |
| 12 | ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots . |
| 13 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 14 | In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth . |
| 15 | There are a lot of people here in your position and we 've got to try and please everybody , which is n't an easy job in this place I can tell you . ’ |
| 16 | Good early ball in partial clearance I thought Ormanroyd might have got on that . |
| 17 | His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ . |
| 18 | For a third distinct trend in progressive rock we can turn to Pink Floyd , known for avant-garde experiments , often making use of collage , electronics and ‘ freeform ’ techniques . |
| 19 | I think to have a classless society in this country everybody has to be equal and not just from the rich to the poor and the poor to the rich , but also there 's many people in this country who suffer from persecution . |
| 20 | Fifteen years or so after these events of my early life in secondary school it is hard to remember now how important all these things were . |
| 21 | In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins . |
| 22 | This conflict led Marx , and especially Engels , to a disastrous attempt to combine both approaches by arguing that there really had been an early stage in human history which was a mirror image of capitalism . |
| 23 | What he tends to ignore , however , is what one might call value charged definitions which do not function as persuasive devices for modifying attitudes but serve simply to formulate , and perhaps endorse , combinations of descriptive and valuational meaning in ordinary usage which reflect widely shared attitudes . |
| 24 | Imagine a random decrease in aggregate demand which , for the private sector , is unpredictable . |
| 25 | In addition , all but the Ashcroft mosaic feature a variety of " veneered rhomboid " — a diagnostic motif in Romano-British mosaic which suggests , for four pavements at least , the presence of the same craftsman , ( similar rhomboids are visible , in stylised form , in the Hare mosaic ( pI . |
| 26 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 27 | Erm , if you compare for example erm their real savings on er er budgetary items er it comes to about half a million , just over half a million er compared to the ones we 're putting forward about a third of million and if you look at the dips in the two budgets for that you 'll see that erm we disagree with their saving on community arts and that er they propose saving on in on information technology costs is unrealistic er that market is changing very rapidly there 's another large organisation in this city which has found us going down track which we are now proposing to down , has produced no income at all , no no no reduction in cost at all . |
| 28 | There 's no sign of any emblems of the National Socialist State in any form whatsoever among people who had displayed them in their homes . ’ |
| 29 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 30 | However , as it was formerly part of the University and wished to revert to that status , the former has merged with University College , Cardiff — with the exception of its Social Work courses and its Higher National Diploma in Institutional Management which have been transferred to the South Glamorgan Institute — and the latter has remained a separate institution . |