Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before looking at local economic strategies in more detail we should point out that the decline of consensus politics at the national level does not inevitably lead to an increase in local political activity . |
| 2 | For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination . |
| 3 | We enter 1993 positively , knowing that the technology and geographic opportunities for profitable expansion I have mentioned above enhance a focused and balanced business . |
| 4 | This is despite the fact that the Tribunal is appointed by the Government ; that it has no real powers ; and that it is under a duty not to give published reasons for any decision it makes . |
| 5 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 6 | When we solve a problem by combining different elements of known action we sometimes get carried away . |
| 7 | But some symbols acquire their additional semantic properties from some characteristic they have as actions or things . |
| 8 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 9 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 10 | Under its skin , instead of succulent cuts of prime meat you 're much more likely to get all sorts of other things instead . |
| 11 | Prices and values can not be higher than what people can pay — which means , how much people can borrow — and lenders , belatedly learning prudence , are no longer willing to give the high multiples of gross income they did in the 1980s or the high proportion of price . |
| 12 | In the concluding sections of this chapter we briefly consider in sociolinguistic terms : ( 1 ) phonemic overlap of /a/ and /Ε/; in EModE ; ( 2 ) the question of reversibility of merger , with reference to the meat/mate ‘ merger ’ ; ( 3 ) lexical diffusion patterns and the Neogrammarian problem of gradual versus sudden phonetic change . |
| 13 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 14 | To the old folks in this list I address the following : |
| 15 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 16 | Your outline ( see above , Chapter 1 , pp. 22 – 4 and Chapter 3 , pp. 59 – 61 ) will indicate what needs to go into each part of your essay , and enables you to write the different parts in any order you wish . |
| 17 | And have there been any specific breakthroughs in organic chemistry you can put your fingers on in recent years ? |
| 18 | In economic models of bureaucratic behaviour it is assumed that economic incentives and constraints are what count , rather than the moral or intellectual qualities of public servants ( Niskanen 1973 ) . |
| 19 | Before , however , I examine in more detail my own personal views on this subject I would like to set them against the background of alternative approaches . |
| 20 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 21 | After gathering again in Milton Keynes in the early hours of this morning they all decided to leave the field at the same time , but there were only two exits . |
| 22 | Conceptually this mistake can be pointed out by indicating that unless the rules in question had important relevance to central areas of human concern we would not think of them as constituting a system of law . |
| 23 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 24 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 25 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 26 | When I was in London during the early years of this period I often stayed with my mother in Hampton Court . |
| 27 | And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ . |
| 28 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 29 | In the early days of Soviet rule it was not unheard of for remote journals to attack Izvestiia and the Central Committee . |
| 30 | In the early days of Everyday Electronics it was often suggested that it was a good idea to double-up on the cheaper components when buying a set of components for a project . |