Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 2 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 3 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |
| 4 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 5 | Repêchages were in the afternoon with all British boats making it to semi finals . |
| 6 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 7 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 8 | a series of free booklets to help you with common health problems |
| 9 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 10 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 11 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 12 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 13 | Students had to attend special political classes to remind them of socialist values , the four basic principles and other tenets of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought . |
| 14 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 15 | Whilst the Spirit is ready to help prayerful communicators to guide them to hidden personal needs of which otherwise they would be unaware , he also expects us to take practical steps to discover the needs around us . |
| 16 | When you are looking for such opportunities , however , beware of allowing visual images to blind you to potential problems . |
| 17 | Despite the principle of ‘ unity of command ’ , the recommendations submitted by the political officer on fitness and promotion through the Directorate 's confidential channels provide him with real prerogatives over the ‘ real ’ officers who surround him . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they require their casual workers to furnish them with appropriate identification and evidence of their tax status . |
| 19 | Then we received information , black powder and and er other er types of er conversion kits for semi automatic rifles to convert them to automatic rifles , and that kind of thing . |
| 20 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 21 | Black sportsmen presented me with vivid examples running counter to the stereotypical black youth and , as such , they lent themselves perfectly to my general purposes , for I am hopefully in the process of shattering some of the popular images of blacks . |
| 22 | Welsh folklore has a richness all of its own and exploring some of the areas with strange tales takes you to unbeatable walking country amid fantastic scenery . |
| 23 | Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions . |
| 24 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 25 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 26 | High-speed lifts land you on manicured pistes after well-disciplined and good-tempered queueing : ‘ After you . |
| 27 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 28 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 29 | The range of on-site services provides you with trouble-free enjoyment , combining all the benefits and standards of a 5-star hotel with the comfort and privacy of your own home . |
| 30 | Look at what they 've done given nine billion to their wealthy friends to move them into private pensions supported pension holiday because company funds are so big increased national insurance so we 're all paying more , even though we get less and compare this with the disadvantage , women first . |