Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well-designed communication structure can do much to minimize this by recognizing the fact that words do not have specific meanings until they are defined for a particular purpose . |
| 2 | Where directorate systems work well , there seems to be an increase in staff morale and greater co-operation between professional groups as they cohere around an integrated programme of patient care . |
| 3 | We begin the discussion with regional policies for they have featured more prominently in government initiatives than labour mobility programmes , both as regards expenditure and public debate . |
| 4 | He goes on to explain that this change was fundamental to the development of Combined Operations as he was then able to order the ships and craft , and requisition bases among the other resources controlled by the Minister of Defence ( Winston Churchill ) . |
| 5 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 6 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 7 | Mark : ‘ We get really strong reactions when we play . |
| 8 | The database concept is ideally suited to professional activities since it relies on an assumption that an ‘ architecture ’ of information storage and retrieval will follow predetermined ( albeit flexible ) routes . |
| 9 | Most ( although not all ! ) horses do become less worried about strange objects as they get older , but some old horses are just plain silly about some things , but it is mostly a bit of a game to them and if ignored , they soon settle down ! |
| 10 | Now they even have four times concentrated products so you need only a quarter of the measure . |
| 11 | Christians are no more immune to the subtle influences of prejudiced attitudes than they are exempt from inclinations towards selfishness , greed or envy . |
| 12 | A church organist has been told not to play low notes because it could damage the spire . |
| 13 | Of her time at Somerville Sue comments : ‘ I 'm afraid I got far more from my extra-curricular activities than I did from my studies ’ . |
| 14 | You get much higher turn out in local government elections in western Europe , we western European states than you do in Britain . |
| 15 | They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know that he will : but he was in High Places at the right times so it 's worth trying the Good Old Times routine … ’ |
| 17 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 18 | There might be a real risk of embarrassment to his full-time employers if he were asked to act for a client in his spare time who was on the other side of a case in which his main employers were engaged . |
| 19 | The appendix does not have any function in man ( i.e. it is a vestigial organ ) and therefore its removal would make no difference to Julie 's normal activities once she had recovered from the operation itself . |
| 20 | The nature of H.T. and Floribunda bushes suggests that they should be planted in isolation , or in long and narrow strips where they can be approached both sides . |
| 21 | But managers know the unwritten rules when they enter the business . |
| 22 | He was a dry , spinsterish man whom Paul disliked , and who could voice his narrow opinions as he chose , having means of his own . |
| 23 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 24 | I must be brave for Perdita 's sake , said Daisy through chattering teeth as she pressed the door bell . |
| 25 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 26 | Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run . |
| 27 | It was the only way of contesting that ‘ bourgeois reason ’ which , for him , was as much a feature of left-wing political programmes as it was of traditional colonial domination . |
| 28 | The 210 children have taken up the panto 's challenge and sought the advice of professional builders so they can construct Wendy 's house in brick in their school yard . |
| 29 | During pre-meeting talks with US Treasury officials , Waigel was also reported to have underlined " differences [ in economic growth ] between countries " , adding that Germany had no objection to other countries altering their monetary policies if they had the scope to do so . |
| 30 | Yes , we grieve when tragedy strikes in such awful forms as we have seen recently . |