Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
2 | But the Reverend was fiercely repressive of the children 's spirit , the food was very poor and the girls were often starved and cold . |
3 | This Government is rarely so generous with the taxpayers ' money , espe cially to people who seek out an in vestment opportunity which does n't involve paying UK tax . |
4 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
5 | His own brawny , Mancunian accent was obviously akin to The Chameleons ' Mark Burgess , and combined with the haunting guitar riffs of Gedge 's early songs , it all became very uncanny . |
6 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
7 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
8 | As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work . |
9 | One school was so impressed by the children 's positive reactions that they completely revamped the science work in the first two years to include more social and human applications of science . |
10 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
11 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
12 | Richard Hannon 's unbeaten two-year-old , off the course since July with an injured stifle , is only third in the bookmakers ' list for the Group One contest . |
13 | He was also largely instrumental in the Casuals ' home ground becoming The Oval for a number of years . |
14 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model . |
15 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
16 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
17 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
18 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
19 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
20 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
21 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
22 | A scheme , more successful from the settlers ' point of view , was that in part of Ecuadorian Amazonia , where a ‘ settlements first ; roads second ’ philosophy prevailed . |
23 | However , in the real world there is an additional concept of efficiency , which takes cognisance of the fact that real firms are never as technically efficient as the theorists ' firm . |
24 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
25 | These are directly congruent with the beings ' activities : whether they cause harm , in the form of disease and mishap , or whether they help to set things right following such a damaging occurrence . |
26 | Still active in the students ' movement , I continued to struggle for recognition of our oppressions as women , lesbians and gays , and people with disabilities . |
27 | Those most involved also experience most feedback and are more aware of the governors ' and the LEA 's response to the report . |
28 | Frequent television viewers were significantly more aware of opinion poll findings , more aware of party leaders ' activities , more aware of second-rank politicians ' activities , and more aware of the parties ' campaign themes . |
29 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
30 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |