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| 3 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products .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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We will do so knowing that whatever we do , whatever normal editorial decisions we make may be misinterpreted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It 's so loud some nights I 've got to go downstairs and sleep on the sofa . |
| 15 | He said afterwards : ‘ It has been one of the most outstanding Scottish conferences I have attended . |
| 16 | Well right old bitches they are ! |
| 17 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 18 | ‘ Contrary to their story book image as big old friendly things they are very bad tempered . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If she was , then it is for her God to judge her personal action — and for the historian to wonder whether this was not one of the most sensible political decisions she ever made . |
| 22 | After passing through a number of German private collections it was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1986 . |
| 23 | ‘ For quite proper commercial reasons they have chosen to be selective . |
| 24 | From an outer façade of imposing honey-gold limestone and carved wooden balconies they 'd stepped into a world of contrasts , the latest modern technology against the sixteenth-century splendour of Maltese architecture . |
| 25 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |
| 26 | With his high cultural ideals he had , in any case , strong and growing suspicions about the worth of a Germany united under Prussian domination and dedicated to narrow military and materialistic goals . |
| 27 | Think rather , ‘ When from France And those old German wars we came back here Already it was the mind 's swift haunting glance Towards the further past , that made time dear . ’ |
| 28 | The largest collection is of four works in a manuscript of the British Library famous , amongst other things , for a collection of English medieval lyrics it contains , British Library MS Harley 2253 ( a facsimile of this manuscript has been published by the Early English Text Society , Original Series no.255 ) . |
| 29 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 30 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |