Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman may know what a man 's intentions are towards her , long before he does himself , and can ‘ pick up ’ emotional inclinations which he has not yet recognized . |
| 2 | In an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda he complained of disastrous government economic policies which he had been powerless to influence . |
| 3 | It is a striking fact that in mania the adult with his manifold potentialities of action and reaction reproduces the uninhibited instinctual manifestations which we observe in the euphoria of the satiated suckling . |
| 4 | A minimum wage involves the Government dictating to private employers what they should pay their workers . |
| 5 | He showed that the mere absence from work or possession of wealth was translated into highly exaggerated forms which he termed conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure . |
| 6 | This partly explains her choice of the middle-aged widower as a husband , since he was the recipient of political secrets which she shared . |
| 7 | Also , from his many comments about violent reactions to remedies , the sensitive patients he saw , were producing undesirable aggravations which he constantly sought to escape from . |
| 8 | On a daily basis these questions should lead you to keep a list of specific activities which you currently see as important to complete in some way . |
| 9 | It is argued that these groups have a vested interest in distorting reality to ensure that America always appears to be under threat so that they can force the president and Congress to finance the lavish and unnecessary programmes which they desire . |
| 10 | It can be seen at once that this essence or core of the conception is sufficiently basic and general to allow ample scope for the more elaborated and specific definitions which we often meet with . |
| 11 | A considerable part of her book is devoted to quite detailed synopses of the lives of the 300-odd geniuses whom she evaluated . |
| 12 | Spelling mistakes do not usually stop your writing being understood , but in many contexts they carry undesirable connotations which you may wish to avoid ( " does n't read " , " illiterate " , " badly taught " , etc . ) . |
| 13 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 14 | But the political solutions which he advocated in the 1930s were not so . |
| 15 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 16 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 17 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 18 | The question is now in simpler units which you can address in turn . |
| 19 | I am sure that the wider world think of us as all being terribly left wing , whereas in fact we 're awfully liberal and conservative and with a spectrum distribution of political allegiances which I suspect are very little different from the community as a whole . |
| 20 | Do you f you you feel that erm present government , erm do you feel that erm the other political parties what they 're erm suggesting with their policies for the inner cites , do you think they 're any better ? |
| 21 | The Court could also ban any political parties which it considered anti-democratic , a move partly designed to prevent a return of the Nazi party , though the Court also banned the Communist party in 1956 . |
| 22 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 23 | Proof of the cuscus ' close relationship to the kangaroo is the pouch for holding its young , common to all marsupials , also its comb-like hind claws which it shares with the kangaroo . |
| 24 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 25 | One of the points you 're making there which is an excellent one , and a very strong point , is the fact that you get a lot of incoming calls which we encourage , |
| 26 | The very presence of the media also tends to alter the relationships between the political and social institutions which they link up . |
| 27 | In two of my cited cases what we do might have moral relevance for animal welfare ; although the label ‘ moral ’ would probably be disputed if our uncertainty over the pet or circus were solely on grounds of cost or distance of travel . |
| 28 | Were , as conservatives replied , the old laws , which they continued to administer , and the old institutions which they still manned , the only valid constitution ? |
| 29 | Other classes struggle all the time , to get anything done you feel you know why are we having this class , we 're not making erm it 's not making a lot of educational sense and one comes to the conclusion after many years of bitter experience that it personal dynamics , it depends on who 's in the group and some groups erm this one successful and some groups which I wo n't mention are relatively unsuccessful and one feels okay that 's because of the inter-personal , it 's who 's in the group and how they interact with each other and try as one might , I suppose I play th the leading role in this group |
| 30 | Now certainly when I did it , I wrote some notes which I then talked through with Alan , Kevin wrote some notes which he then talked through with me . |