Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was not the first , or the last , Home Secretary to be apprehensive of the clamourous demands he was likely to face . |
| 32 | Although I was sad to say goodbye to Bessie , I was both excited and nervous about the new places I would see , and the new people I would meet . |
| 33 | To date , the social representation theorists have tended to be somewhat vague about the social conditions which foster the development of social representations , as understood in the particular sense . |
| 34 | No one yet knows whether consumers will pay extra for the cinema-like images it offers or whether the huge , high-tech screens needed to make HDTV attractive will soon be ready . |
| 35 | Like everyone else , teachers may be unaware of the prejudiced views they hold and admitting their prejudice can be a very painful process . |
| 36 | It is clear that the judge was unaware of the additional matters I have listed . |
| 37 | They picnicked , and explored the countryside not too far from Lambkin Farm , still quite unaware of the passionate natures they kept in check . |
| 38 | This preference for an explicitly manichean vision of the world which Nizan retained throughout his life is symptomatic of the fundamental divisions which permeate all his thinking on cultural activity . |
| 39 | They were typical of the many Europeans we met who were tired of conventional holidays . |
| 40 | This behaviour is typical of the several meals we have investigated using scintigraphic techniques , and shows that it represents a physiological relevant test meal . |
| 41 | Socially concerned professional people came into their own : these were the days of professional experts ; architects and planners were typical of the humane technocrats who had won the war and had a vision of the skills to win the peace . |
| 42 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 43 | This is interpreted as being indicative of the different functions which are served by comprehension and production with increasing age . |
| 44 | I sweated and strained with it , even in quite a light wind , and my hands grew warm despite the heavy-duty welding-gloves I had on . |
| 45 | The Kirkwoods had to sell their horses , had to endure the slow oncoming tread of gentility in all its shabbiness , to watch the encroaching , ever-drawing-near of the Irish natives who had long been in the tenure and service of the Great House , and now never would be again . |
| 46 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 47 | There was a window open on the third floor , but marks consistent with the rubber-soled shoes he was wearing suggested that it was from the parapet in front of the four dormer windows in the roof . |
| 48 | We have already seen evidence of this in Zande witchcraft beliefs with their eager concern to assimilate and ‘ naturalize ’ new information so that it is consistent with the basic assumptions which Zande take for granted . |
| 49 | Not content with the ten operations she has already had , Orlan is now looking for sponsors for her next operation . |
| 50 | The bourgeois was , if not a different species , then at least the member of a superior race , a higher stage in human evolution , distinct from the lower orders who remained in the historical or cultural equivalent of childhood or at most adolescence . |
| 51 | There were twenty-four houses at Eton , each with about forty-five boys who were known as Oppidans and were distinct from the seventy Scholars who lived apart in College . |
| 52 | This piece of information is , as far as I am aware , hitherto unrecorded in the extensive annotations which have been inflicted on the novel ; and I herewith offer it in a spirit of humility for use by professional scholars . |
| 53 | None the less , gas is crucial in the actual mechanisms which control the kind of eruptive activity that occurs ( Fig. 5.7 ) . |
| 54 | Both men have been prominent in the academic debates which have helped to make the current revolution in historical studies one of the most significant of the many upheavals Gorbachev has sanctioned . |
| 55 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
| 56 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |
| 57 | This practice of stitching together the two kinds of reduction into a single statement , which combines sweeping generalization with particularistic reference , is central to the discursive strategies which the Burnage Report criticized as ‘ moral , symbolic and doctrinaire ’ antiracism . |
| 58 | Hemel 's Darin Schubring , who caused a two-hour delay in last week 's first leg when he demolished the backboard , looked less dangerous on the rare occasions he had the ball . |
| 59 | He can retake the goods not only from B , the original tortfeasor , but even from a third person subject to the apparent exceptions which arise where that third person has acquired a good title even against A. Such exceptions are only apparent because A , having lost his right to the property , has got nothing which he can retake . |
| 60 | It operates in the VHF band on frequencies between 108 and 118 MHZ and is therefore not subject to the many errors which plague ADF ( Radio Compass ) on medium frequencies . |