Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think because you 've read a few crappy books you know it all . ’ |
| 2 | In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right . |
| 3 | I 've also seen what can happen to the poor brave souls who risk their own lives searching for them . ’ |
| 4 | A generation away from the British urchins who started it all . |
| 5 | Serbs say Albanians ‘ are Muslim fanatics who enslave their own people with cruelty and primitivism ’ . |
| 6 | We venture into public life protected not so much by the sanctions of formal law but by an unwritten charter of civil rights which assigns us both access to and independence from others with whom we come into contact . |
| 7 | Three privileged siblings who discover they all have different fathers — and none is the man their mother is married to . |
| 8 | The dominant power behind the movement in church building lay with the monastic orders who developed their own individual style ( on Romanesque patterns ) to suit the needs of the order . |
| 9 | The photographic pioneers who travelled our own rural lanes , and cobbled back alleys have left us a visual legacy that portrays the changing face of our society . |
| 10 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 11 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 12 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 13 | Centres will then know what units have already been produced and may sometimes be able to avoid duplicating work already done by using existing units which suit their own local needs . |
| 14 | So then you start thinking about visual images which give you this impression of power and menace , something like the Nuremberg Rallies of the 1930s , and use that as the basis of your inspiration . |
| 15 | The upper class has clear distinctive characteristics which give it such a sense of identity : not only its ownership of productive property ( the fundamental and defining feature ) but also its distinctive culture and status hierarchy . |
| 16 | Poster advertising is handled by outdoor contractors who run their own grading systems . |
| 17 | Large users include direct mail order suppliers ; financial organisations and building societies , which hold addresses for every account holder ; gas and electricity companies and TV rental companies which maintain customer accounting information ; multiple retailers who operate their own credit cards ; travel companies ; motor appliance and furniture manufacturers who retain addresses for warranty or guarantee Purposes ; manufacturers who obtain addresses from special on-pack promotion or coupon drops ; even charities and political parties . |
| 18 | We are now coming to the time of the year when paddlers start competing again in marathons and it would be nice to remember the ancient Greeks who started it all off . |
| 19 | For a few terrible moments they saw it all , and cowered , covering their eyes . |
| 20 | It must in fact plunge into the heart of the matter in order to lay bare the fundamental conditions which made it all even possible . |
| 21 | It was good to read Leslie Patterson 's article in September 's Amicus to find that her committee meetings are no different from our meetings , with frivolous items ( such as peeled grapes ! ) to important items which affect us all , like the office 's smoking policy and PEARL . |
| 22 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 23 | The extended hours of eligibility and the greater rewards for general practitioners who make their own night visits readily explain these changes in activity . |
| 24 | The first and most important are authentic nomadic items which employ their own tribal guls . |
| 25 | His response was predicated on the idea that he was dealing with an IRA insurrection when he was actually faced with a group of unarmed demonstrators who posed nothing more than a difficult public order problem . |
| 26 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 27 | Furthermore the British wanted an assured supply of weapons for immediate use against Soviet military capabilities which threatened their own vital centres , facilities and lines of communication . |
| 28 | This is about the pilots who make up this famous aerobatic team , and it focuses on the three new pilots who join it each year . |
| 29 | For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences . |
| 30 | Although there were notable exceptions , the most eminent philosophers of nature were not members of the clergy but were lay figures who developed their own theologies . |