Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 2 | There were some signs in 1990-91 that Japan 's long-running dispute with the Soviet Union might be drawing to an end . |
| 3 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 4 | Mark claims that all the people were astonished as they witnessed this contest between good and evil . |
| 5 | In addition , I have as a consultant — and on behalf of the National Children 's Bureau — been working with a team from the University of London Institute of Education over the past two years or so , to distil the lessons from this research for local and health authorities . |
| 6 | Fees will normally be based on time taken at premium rates to reflect the skills and responsibilities of the assignment or on some mix of fixed and contingency fee . |
| 7 | A few words of Czech or Slovak learned beforehand will certainly be a great help and in the cities German is often understood . |
| 8 | All aspects of intersection control that I could think of , and even some aspects of urban and road design and management are included in a chapter on links between intersections . |
| 9 | Study at such world levels can now be achieved first because enough process data have been collected to allow some degree of national and world pattern to be discerned ; secondly because international cooperation has been initiated specifically to remedy the past deficiencies of data coverage ; and thirdly because the opportunities of remote sensing are now beginning to provide further clues to the world picture . |
| 10 | It also follows that if the system is to survive , its various parts must have some degree of fit or compatibility . |
| 11 | This separation between scientific and common-sense knowledge in turn produces a significant effect on Bachelard 's thinking about history . |
| 12 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 13 | However , I feel there should be two grades because of the difficulty of actually getting the game started with one service in some areas of junior or park tennis . |
| 14 | This slippage between ideal and practice reveals a slightly disturbing picture . |
| 15 | Curran 's arrival brings the number of new signings at Scarborough this week to five as boss Ray McHale looks ahead to next season . |
| 16 | Results this week from Next and Sears will also give a measure of the retail downturn following the 1,850 job cuts announced by Littlewoods last week . |
| 17 | I hope that all nurses will once again join and fight to remove this barrier between traditional and Project 2000 students . |
| 18 | After all , there were few people of Asian or West Indian descent in Britain 's pre-war working class communities . |
| 19 | This debate between pluralist or behaviourist and radical/Marxist accounts of power in capitalist societies has been an important one in political sociology with Marxist writers such as Westergaard and Resler ( 1975 ) arguing that pluralist accounts did not get to the roots of the power of capital . |
| 20 | There were however some differences between British and Sri Lankan definitions of crime . |
| 21 | So write that one and then later on when I 've gone if you can make up some sentences with stationary and stationery . |
| 22 | Given this mixture of affective and schizophrenic features a modern psychiatric diagnosis for Margery Kempe would most likely be ‘ schizoaffective psychosis ’ , precipitated in the first instance by childbirth . |
| 23 | a few degrees off vertical so things |
| 24 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 25 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 26 | Nizan notes : Perhaps if you are squeamish , you can not appreciate this world where the good guys are ruthlessly divided from the bad guys , this world of Good and Evil , this Dickensian liking for the triumph of the good guys . |
| 27 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 28 | Professional interventions , far from being a source of help and support , are often another cause of upset and trouble . |
| 29 | Colours include this design in red and mauves , or choose from a range of blues , yellows and greens , £200 . |
| 30 | West Germany is fortunate to have a body , the Science Council ( Wissenschaftsrat ) : a fairly influential parliament of scholars that coordinates the planning and execution of such projects between federal and state governments and the scientists in universities and research institutes . |