Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | They will be concerned with the status of the source ; statements may be accepted quite uncritically from a peer whom the receptors admire and emulate . |
2 | In fact , if the starlings are all in a circle ( perhaps the lawn has a fairy ring which the worms find congenial ) , then the centre of the flock will be quite a long way from any of the birds . |
3 | We had to weigh up the bid which the managers put forward against outside bids and they 're never in exactly the same terms . |
4 | Can I thank you for those generous comments that you say towards er , , I think they 're totally true , he 's worked extremely hard in making sure this council has a budget which balanced , and it 's due to his expertise and bullying tactics that we 've succeeded , and he should be fully congratulated for that , and I think it 's the determination of those who were elected in May as well , to make sure that we protected services and jobs , and , and make sure that we actually carried out the mandate which the electors elected us to do that we have such ach achieved what we have achieved today . |
5 | One of the members of the campaign , Richard McCance , stood as an openly gay candidate for Labour , winning with a 13 per cent swing a seat which the Tories had held for forty years . |
6 | Chelmsford Auctions v. Poole involved the sale of a car which the auctioneers knocked down to the purchaser for £57 . |
7 | Then there was the time when he was arrested for driving a loaned car which the police insisted had been reported stolen . |
8 | As well as the extensive variety of events enjoyed in the theatre and public spaces of the Arts Centre , there is a huge programme which the Arts Centre undertakes with local children through schools . |
9 | I was impressed with the open mind which the writers brought to their task , though their missionary motive could not be hidden . |
10 | The terms structure and structural are crucial to the programme of research which the Thèses proposed on both literature and language . |
11 | That is to say , if creativity and psychosis are found to be connected then this is more likely to be revealed , not as a function of the psychotic state itself , but in more subtle ways — for example , through certain modes or forms of thinking and perception which the tendencies to psychosis and creativity might prove to have in common . |
12 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
13 | Certainly in 1922 Ukrainians came to envy and hate the preferential treatment given to their eastern neighbours on the Volga , thus falling prey to the methods of divide and rule which the Bolsheviks inherited from their imperial predecessors . |
14 | Such work hit at the heart of the institution which the conservative-historians took to be so much under threat — the nuclear family . |
15 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
16 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
17 | It said that the acquisition of conventional weapons would be based on the doctrine of " minimum deterrence " , defined as the capability which the states in the region " legitimately need to deter and defend against military aggression " . |
18 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
19 | They set off through the drizzling rain , climbing the steep path up the rock which the monks said was popularly known as Arthur 's Seat . |
20 | For instance , the maximum period of imprisonment for simple theft was three years , much longer than the six months term which a police court could now impose . |
21 | John uses a term which the others do not . |
22 | Parliament granted the fixed and certain term which the agreements between the parties lacked in the case of tenancies for the duration of the war and which the present agreement lacks . |
23 | A characteristic working practice which the companies brought with them covered the organization of the underground process of coal-winning . |
24 | There are eight other lines of action which the Plans Project has identified as a means of recovering ground or of preventing mistakes from being compounded . |
25 | The Phillips curve was regarded as an inescapable constraint on policy action which the authorities could only ignore at their peril . |
26 | In evaluating the commercial possibilities of options , it should be assumed that the parties will act in accordance with their economic interests , but account should not be taken of courses of action which the parties would take only in the event of a severe deterioration in the creditworthiness of the issuer . |
27 | Third , the diplomatic accord which the Carolingians had earlier enjoyed with Offa in Mercia had been destroyed ( see below , pp. 185 ff . ) . |
28 | He continued : [ T ] he ultimate question for the court was this : if the section 146 notice had required the lessee to remedy the breach and the lessors had then allowed a reasonable time to elapse to enable the lessee fully to comply with the relevant covenant , would such compliance , coupled with the payment of any appropriate monetary compensation , have effectively remedied the harm which the lessors had suffered or were likely to suffer from the breach ? |
29 | It implies discipline by free competition , rather than the discipline by force which the Germans prefer . |
30 | Clerical taxation by the king was allowable only when and so long as the realm was endangered , a condition which the clergy were to judge . |