Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout our discussions my Working Group was very anxious to compose chapters which would make clear our rationale to teachers and politicians of good will . |
| 2 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |
| 3 | At times my skateboarding skills astounded me : zipping around corners , weaving through obstacles etc . |
| 4 | Over the next four months my Green Chromides flourished , attaining an average size of approximately 4½″ . |
| 5 | Claudia nodded , unable to put into words her intense love and longing for Roman . |
| 6 | Those who manage the company do not own the company , If the managers of the company display the characteristics which economic theory credits to all other individuals they will be concerned to maximize their own utility rather than the profits of the company . |
| 7 | Dressed in religious vestments their dry delivery and material was new and original . |
| 8 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 9 | For many fans their only chance of getting a coveted Wembley ticket was to collect all three vouchers and hope their numbers came out in a draw . |
| 10 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 11 | Wherever they are now , black people are descended from Africans , but over the centuries their genetic heritage has become diversified and complicated by various permutations of mating . |
| 12 | Before considering the various methods which various owners and developers have adopted to achieve the satisfactory conversion of church buildings to domestic use , it is important to be aware of the procedure through which the majority of churches become available for conversion . |
| 13 | Fourthly , the skills and methods which social workers developed during the welfare state era are relevant as never before ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Parsloe , 1988 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) : psychosocial assessments , direct work with children , maintaining links , interprofessional collaboration . |
| 14 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 15 | Even within the bounds of their overwhelming devotion to Gothic they showed by the end of the century an openness to new styles which other denominations were not as quick to learn . |
| 16 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 17 | Jean-Georges Noverre in his Letters on Dance ( 1760 ) described the seven movements which give steps their varying qualities , namely : to bend , stretch , rise , jump glide , dart and turn . |
| 18 | Source of funds Its main source of funds is bonds and loans raised on a commercial basis on the capital markets in the EC and on other international markets also . |
| 19 | It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support . |
| 20 | London was the greatest town in England , and during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries its economic resources increased more markedly than those of most other parts of the country . |
| 21 | But perhaps the erm the simplest erm prognostic routes were suggested by the M R C working parties which general urology which was mentioned in the last presentation . |
| 22 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 23 | The Swedish giant fitted 83 cars with computers which simulated motoring problems by lighting dashboard warning lights , changing speedo and other readings , causing strange noises and even showing blue flashing lights in the rear-view mirror . |
| 24 | The tendency of legal doctrine to permit and even require the directors of a company to weigh the interests of groups other than those of the shareholders is closely allied with the claims that a revolution is occurring in the goals which corporate enterprise sets itself and that corporate managers are assuming for their companies ' social responsibilities . |
| 25 | In some animals its biological role is more clearly defined . |
| 26 | The rest of the audience cranes its collective neck to spot the guilty party . |
| 27 | Mounted centrally on the roof was a tall tower supporting a neat diamond pantograph collector , which gave the cars their popular name . |
| 28 | On Thursday morning , the children went to fetch the presents which other people had promised — eggs , meat , tomatoes . |
| 29 | Images which parallel food and the body have long been the staple diet of art ; as the body became increasingly edible in Godfrey-Isaacs ' earlier work , so the current series also has its ‘ food appeal ’ . |
| 30 | At the upper end of the scale came those shops which bewildered members of the public — those who could afford it all — with an astonishing range of merchandise : Dutch ratteens , duffles , frizes , beaver coatings , kerseymeres , forrest cloths , German serges , Wilton stuffs , sagathies , namkeens , Silasia cambricks , Manchester velvets , grograms , double allapeens , silk camblets , barragons , Brussels camblets , princes stuffs , worsted damasks , silk knitpieces , gattias , shagg velvets , serge desoys and shalloons . |