Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time that Fidel Castro led his revolution to victory and entered Havana with his troops , we had no idea what political course his regime would follow . |
| 2 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |
| 3 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 4 | In due course their work will help us to move further forward . |
| 5 | There would be further set-backs as one lean spell caused the factions to surface again , but now they were truly under way and in due course their supremacy would become complete . |
| 6 | I was unsuccessful , but in due course my brother was to join the staff and the family connection extended with my sister 's residence there . |
| 7 | At about the same time we made the acquaintance of a young Nigerian living in the town , and in due course his bride came to stay in our house until her marriage . |
| 8 | Powder coatings , because they require no solvents , are environmentally friendly products whose market share is growing even in a period of overall slack demand . |
| 9 | It is 65 light-years away , and 100 times as luminous as the Sun , and with its K-type spectrum its colour is striking in binoculars . |
| 10 | And in this sense , when we liberate South Africa we will also create , we hope a state in the world which will become foremost in fighting racism all over the world and at the lower level our community based organizations our non-governmental organizations that have across colour built up structures to move communities forward if our friends in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see how that is done at grass roots level in the hell of racism as I say they would have a lot to learn . |
| 11 | It is the organisation for collecting and distributing that provision which changes . |
| 12 | The resulting at-seat light refreshment services provided an ideal foothold for the private operators whose involvement in railway catering the government was urging . |
| 13 | The increase in the number of 80 and 90 year-olds has been viewed with alarm by some members of the professional groups whose work brings them closely into touch with the oldest old — the geriatricians , general practitioners , nurses , social workers , occupational — and physiotherapists — as well as by others more indirectly involved ( HAS 1982 ) . |
| 14 | That function which language serves in the expression of ‘ content ’ we will describe as transactional , and that function involved in expressing social relations and personal attitudes we will describe as interactional . |
| 15 | The region boasts many ancient towns of interest and historic cities whose architecture reveals the splendours of the past . |
| 16 | Many more people in the future than in the past will benefit from the kind of economic support which people give to their relatives through post mortem transfers . |
| 17 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced Elstob to 12 months in jail consecutive to an eight-year sentence which Elstob is serving for robbery . |
| 18 | The Welsh connection may have brought Morgan to the duke 's notice during his control of the Herbert lands , but it was Morgan 's legal expertise rather than any regional pull which Gloucester valued . |
| 19 | The Welsh connection may have brought Morgan to the duke 's notice during his control of the Herbert lands , but it was Morgan 's legal expertise rather than any regional pull which Gloucester valued . |
| 20 | From its coastline of powdery soft , sandy beaches — Flic-en-Flac and Belle Mare are amongst the most beautiful — lagoons and inlets , bamboo and banana forests , the land rises to form a broad plateau with row upon row of flourishing sugar cane and volcanic peaks which tower above deep craters . |
| 21 | That is the awful decision which soldiers have had to take on hundreds of occasions . |
| 22 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 've really read all those extensive notes your researcher made for you , but do take a look at the last couple of lines . |
| 24 | NetClasses transports generic C++ and National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) -derived objects as well as NetClasses Typed Objects which are run-time configurable objects whose structure is specified by programmers in external files using an abstract syntax notation . |
| 25 | At this momentous hour His Excellency the Governor of Burma is to dedicate himself to Almighty God for the task with which he has been entrusted . |
| 26 | Eliot 's vision , which gives him his sympathies with ‘ neo-agrarians ’ , however ‘ quixotic , , is a vision to counter the modern paganism of economic determinists whose theory has become ‘ a god before whom we fall down and worship with all kinds of music ’ . |
| 27 | She lost her job after a few weeks and what little money my Dad had left quickly went on drugs and booze . |
| 28 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |
| 29 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 30 | For one revealing instant her heart was in her eyes . |