Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build . |
| 2 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 3 | Chesterton , a Stanhope who survived , found in fascism a positive political creed with which he could identify . |
| 4 | This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise . |
| 5 | Our system of government is being changed , with increasing disregard for tradition , the only unwritten rules to which one might appeal as ‘ constitutional ’ principles . |
| 6 | no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years |
| 7 | On the right side of them you 'd never guess |
| 8 | This is the task of lawyers and of other conceptive ideologists with whom they should properly be classified . |
| 9 | Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper . |
| 10 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 11 | Surely , the lowest level of coordinated action at which we could seriously confront this question is that of the European Community ? |
| 12 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 13 | IMHO there are only 3 possible contenders from what I would call the ‘ managerial school ’ : |
| 14 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 15 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 16 | I know it 's a bit like football for train-spotters , but to a senile old git like me it could be kinda fun . |
| 17 | I know it 's a bit like football for train-spotters , but to a senile old git like me it could be kinda fun . |
| 18 | Rather , " however " creates a contrast concerning the idea of a writer foreseeing the effect on later audiences — something which pulls the essay in a different direction from one which might create the expectation that Othello would be introduced . |
| 19 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 20 | To study this problem , the investigators have first to develop small models for a small number of key countries , and then to simulate different strategies with which they might or might not manage to cooperate . |
| 21 | The question posed is , What is the minimum acceptable budget below which anyone would be accepted as poor ? |
| 22 | The problem is how to explain the quantization of the electromagnetic field to one who can not instinctively write down Maxwell 's equations ( which is no shame ) , let alone say what they mean . |
| 23 | But I do not think that there can be a rational , scientific criterion by which you can say : this is really the best . |
| 24 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 25 | That is exactly what has happened in Southampton where , in spite of all the professional advice , the Government committed an offence against the public purse for which they should still be held accountable . |
| 26 | Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her . |
| 27 | The words furnished tenancy would be empty vessels into which anything could be poured . |
| 28 | High ladders from which she must not look down ? |
| 29 | The open-air markets , held weekly in most major towns , are lively social gatherings at which you may be lucky enough to strike an excellent holiday bargain . |
| 30 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |