Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were additional factors with this family which compounded their inevitable distress , not least the subsequent diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in an elder son , in whom signs of clinical abnormality had been recognised before the birth of his younger brother . |
| 2 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 3 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 4 | In 1769 1,375 people were at work on it , many of them prisoners at forced labour . |
| 5 | No one , not even lovers , are truly psychic , and everyone flounders around each other , misunderstanding , misinterpreting , sending out confusing signals . |
| 6 | We explained how the enjoyment of reading helps to develop children 's imaginative and aesthetic lives , enriches their use of language , introduces them to our cultural heritage and gives them opportunities for cultural analysis . |
| 7 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 8 | Well I 've been on them Diodides for six year now . |
| 9 | A visitor to Mohenjo Daro , one of the Indus Valley sites , will be left with the impression that this city with all it contained had either in record time surpassed all other human generations in inventiveness , or that like the Aryans they were immigrants bringing with them centuries of cultural inheritance . |
| 10 | The conference is arranged in four sessions : legislation ; monitoring emissions ; controlling emissions ; and cleaning up the environment — all of them subjects of considerable interest to senior management in industry . |
| 11 | He seems anxious to re-affirm the dramatic and classical potential of the troupe by giving all the dancers choreography of the utmost complexity , requiring from them performances of total physical and emotional commitment . |
| 12 | They are so virtuous that one can hardly call them pagans at all . |
| 13 | Now you two try to get some sleep and I 'll keep me eyes on that platform . |
| 14 | Not a drop of gin or brandy ever touched me lips in all me born days . |
| 15 | This reading of the effect of the " fabliau entelechy " on religious imagery can also be applied to what appears as a singularly stark , socially satirical statement in this tale , the concluding lines to the portrait of Alison : These could focus critically on the selfish pleasure-taking of lords with town " wenches " , whom yeomen of lower status have to wed . |
| 16 | There are plenty of army officers , by no means all of them supporters of radical causes , who think the army should not be used to settle political arguments with the republics . |
| 17 | ‘ He finished the season as our top scorer with 23 goals and is an integral part of my plans for next season . ’ |
| 18 | I announced in the House on 26 November my plans for recurrent and capital expenditure on grant-aided colleges . |
| 19 | My plans for 1992-93 provide for an overall increase in my education programme of some 15 per cent . |
| 20 | I was told they know how to honour their dead in the Highland regiments but the next time I go to Edinburgh I will gaze up at Dad Tam , and see both of my sons in that solid likeness ( despite the Kitchener moustache ) . |
| 21 | At length I stood on the ground , up to my ankles in fresh-fallen snow . |
| 22 | Still , ’ the Hungarian shrugged , ‘ my views about such things are strictly conventional . |
| 23 | My views on proportional representation are well known . |
| 24 | said You know my views on that . |
| 25 | Mr Major told him : ‘ If you were here more often , you would know how often I have set out my views on that subject . ’ |
| 26 | I keep my views on that . |
| 27 | The Minister knows my views on such matters when they might affect service personnel and families . |
| 28 | Why , in the past week alone I have given my views on nuclear disarmament , the Middle East , world hunger , racism in the dairy industry , the proper depth to set okra seedlings and the supremacy of angst in the first two volumes of Winnie the Pooh . |
| 29 | My views on these systems are open at the moment , but I must admit that , like many , I am dubious about the claims of many similar products . |
| 30 | I outlined my views on both those subjects on 15 June 1990 in a 40-minute speech . |