Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 2 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 3 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products . |
| 4 | If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing . |
| 5 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 6 | However , as Lennie ( 1980 ) points out , that does not mean that these cells respond more rapidly to visual stimuli than the other classes , since the latency of response to visual input is determined largely by events in the retina At low spatial frequencies they are linear but as the spatial frequency is increased non-linear properties emerge . |
| 7 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 8 | Sharir had served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1988 , and according to Israeli political commentators he nursed a grudge against Shamir for not including him in his last Cabinet . |
| 9 | This resulted in a sort of ‘ naturalism ’ , which relegated signification and semiotics to the ranks of the merely modern , with whose possible political implications I am not entirely happy . |
| 10 | Eleven bloody hours I 've driven today . |
| 11 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 12 | We will do so knowing that whatever we do , whatever normal editorial decisions we make may be misinterpreted . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is the historic old houses you are likely to recall long after the memory of the well kept gardens , water sports , smart promenades and bathing pools have faded . |
| 14 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 15 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 16 | It 's so loud some nights I 've got to go downstairs and sleep on the sofa . |
| 17 | He said afterwards : ‘ It has been one of the most outstanding Scottish conferences I have attended . |
| 18 | However , just as engineers and physicists find practical use for some of the results of classical elasticity theory ( usually in semi-empirical forms ) so rheologists , polymer scientists and material scientists in general wish to find applicable parts of continuum theory , particularly when the simpler linear theories we have discussed earlier in the chapter fail . |
| 19 | Well right old bitches they are ! |
| 20 | said er , they said Wrexham they 've got two or three you know mu museums for , and that different halls he said er |
| 21 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 22 | ‘ Contrary to their story book image as big old friendly things they are very bad tempered . |
| 23 | Writing from two very different political positions they draw the same conclusion : the Congo experience had a traumatic effect upon Nkrumah 's view of Ghana 's relations with Britain , the United States and the Commonwealth . |
| 24 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 25 | And it 's funny things some of these travellers Oh you get some awful travellers you know , Southern some of them . |
| 26 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 27 | There are broadly four key areas to become familiar with when dealing in statistics and then there are some specific techniques you can profitably learn . |
| 28 | Before looking at some specific examples it is as well to have some idea of just what a mathematician means by a ‘ helix ’ because scientists have taken liberties with the word in looking for terms to describe the world . |
| 29 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 30 | In some political systems it has indeed practically no other function . |