Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A benign analysis of black psychology is usually reserved for characteristics which have relatively low status within psychology : for school students ' high self-esteem , for instance , rather than their achievement motivation ; or for supportive family and social relationships .
2 This he attributes to a resistance on the part of Northerners to adapt their speech towards a recognised stereotype , although they will happily adapt other vowels which carry less social significance .
3 For the moment we have to rely on intermittent subcutaneous injections which impose quite definite restrictions .
4 Nevertheless the rigidity of the traditional line tactics which dominated most European battlefields in the eighteenth century had been shaken , with important results for the future .
5 General Instrument will work with Intel to integrate the 80386 with its own circuitry for compression and graphics optimised for interactive television to produce a family of addressable converters and satellite receivers to produce both new versions of the current analogue controllers , and versions of new series DigiCable units which deliver digitally compressed cable programmes .
6 Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem .
7 He was faced there with one of the world 's many tonal languages — conveniently forgotten in Western schools which teach only European languages and imply that all languages work in much the same way .
8 increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the
9 Information about syntax can be used to select words which form grammatically allowable strings ; or to reject strings which are grammatically unacceptable .
10 For most of the world 's people , the 20 years from 1970 to 1990 can be broadly divided into two halves — two pictures which tell very different stories .
11 These are creams , lotions , sprays and mousses which dissolve away unwanted hair just below skin level , using chemicals such as calcium thioglycollate .
12 Equally , some rugs which represent extremely good value as furnishing items , are not suitable for long-term investments , while rugs with the highest investment potential may be out of place as decorative items in the home .
13 An ideal programme includes exercise sessions which last about 30 minutes three to four times per week .
14 Situated on a hillside surrounded by woods , the Jelenice is close to the lake ( about 5/6 minutes walk away ) and was particularly well liked by our clients who stayed there last summer for its warm and friendly atmosphere created without doubt by a dedicated management and staff .
15 However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding .
16 Our target is to reject the papers not sent to external referees within two weeks , and we hope that this information may lead more authors who have scientifically sound papers but are worried that they may be too specialist for a general audience to let us see them .
17 In the cruel treachery of his words she had only one thought — that she must not seem surprised .
18 The project is aimed at younger drivers who want totally open motoring but do n't feel safe on two wheels .
19 Indeed , it is quite difficult to find nations who eat less dietary fibre than the British , apart from the Swedes ( 14g daily ) and Masai warriors , who are thought to eat practically none !
20 That puts even Lady Thatcher 's efforts in the shade — in her final 20 months she managed just 71 days .
21 Of its ‘ underground ’ survival after the Arab conquest of the African provinces we have only patchy evidence .
22 Reading through the Old French fabliaux one finds persistently recurring examples of certain types of dramatic situation created and resolved by the deception and misdeed .
23 Of course , when we examine the intonation of polysyllabic heads we find much greater variety than these simple examples suggest .
24 While second homes consist merely of properties no longer wanted as first homes they cause relatively few problems ; but when they grow beyond this , political , social , economic and environmental problems arise .
25 And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production .
26 And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production .
27 In two months he spoke only 26 sentences to his lonely wife Susanne .
28 One teacher believed that the guidelines themselves demanded too much information of a descriptive kind :
29 Part of the lease Arthur signed guaranteed him his brewing water free of tax or pipe money , and in this regard he had a long standing feud with the city authorities which lasted over twenty years .
30 Even in obeying ‘ Be aware ’ , the objects which with arousal of awareness draw me towards them also enhance awareness of themselves , the objects which repel also numb awareness of themselves .
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