Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 32 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 33 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 34 | On the substantive point , my hon. Friend will know that I agree with him , for I refused earlier this week to agree in Europe to the sort of laws that would have had the effect my hon. Friend sets out . |
| 35 | In becoming anorexic , I was saying to those who were in effect my social superiors , ‘ I can contribute nothing to the community ; look how little I have/am . ’ |
| 36 | The fascination of a middle-class man such as A. J. Munby with the hands and the boots of working-class women , or ‘ Walter 's ’ fascination with working-class girls in the anonymous sexual chronicle My Secret Life are signs of the complex sexual meanings that frequently resulted . |
| 37 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 38 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 39 | Speaking about the resurgence of interest in religion which many people see in the world today , the Chief Rabbi , Jonathan Sacks , asks " Whether religious revival might be not a refreshing breeze but a destructive hurricane . " |
| 40 | It was concern about prostitution , venereal disease , maternal mortality and the control of female sexuality that gave gynaecology its distinctive qualities . |
| 41 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 42 | Over her traditional ‘ pollera ’ , the wide , thick skirt which indigenous women wear , she has the bright blue overall of the CDA staff . |
| 43 | A goal from former Rangers striker Bobby Williamson two minutes into injury time at the end of the contest handed the Glasgow side their first home defeat since March 1992 . |
| 44 | A goal from former Rangers striker Bobby Williamson two minutes into injury time at the end of the contest handed the Glasgow side their first home defeat since March 1992 . |
| 45 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 46 | The opposition her public career provoked — as a single woman speaking about sexuality — showed that despite the gains made by repeal feminism , women still risked censure and social ostracization when they crossed the boundaries from the private to the public sphere . |
| 47 | For Study 4 the total number of films watched in the judgment phase was slightly reduced as was the mean length of a film in order to allow the full stimulus set to appear in the recognition phase , this effectively doubles the amount of information each subject gives in the recognition phase , fortunately this was a part of the experiment which previous subjects had generally found agreeably challenging and intrinsically motivating . |
| 48 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 49 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 50 | Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced . |
| 51 | But what was much more important was the relationship between the particular nature of this political crisis and the religious recourse which some people took . |
| 52 | JOHN BARNES , the England winger struggling with a hamstring injury , stayed in Liverpool yesterday as Bobby Robson 's squad met up in Buckinghamshire to fine-tune their final plans for next Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying game in Poland . |
| 53 | In the remaining chapters , it is argued that religion in Ireland basically solidifies the opposing alliances in an exclusive way and precludes a common state form , thus providing the structure of violence which such divisions entail . |
| 54 | We might well be inclined to call this intentional object the context of the emotional arousal for it is the cognitive relationship with a particular context that gives the emotion its particular characteristics . |
| 55 | In electro magnetism , the repulsion between two electrons can be pictured as the exchange of a photon — a particle that has to be massless to give the force its infinite range , its inverse square law . |
| 56 | In a bizarre case that has once more focused attention on the accountability of art restorers , a United States Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments on a decision that , for now , requires an American city to pay more than half-a-million dollars for restoration work on a city-owned mural which that city never contracted to restore . |
| 57 | Lengthy instructions are best handled by way of an addendum sheet in order to keep the standard form as succinct as possible , bearing in mind its subsequent use as a contractual and financial document . |
| 58 | In the government 's mind its single-minded agency approach assumes an entrepreneurial ability that contrasts with the alleged inflexibility and bureaucratic ethos of local authorities . |
| 59 | But it has always produced two results : support from other fans who think Newcastle are n't half lucky and complete silence from the club which many fans also accuse of poor public relations except on one occasion when the assistant manager was economical with the truth . |
| 60 | Using genetic engineering , the company Delta Biotechnology has inserted into yeast the human gene for the manufacture of haemoglobin , the protein that gives blood its scarlet colour and transports oxygen to tissues around the body . |