Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928–29 he was an ideal supplier of chances for Len Griffiths and Harry Havelock , while also providing 10 League goals himself from 16 appearances ( including a hat-trick at Brighton just before Christmas ) and helping the Palace to their best run in the FA Cup for years . |
| 2 | These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation , and have to be understood metaphorically . |
| 3 | This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry . |
| 4 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 5 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 6 | We have in this country no less than four million homes which for one |
| 7 | TWO residential homes which for many years have cared for young people and the elderly are being closed by the Salvation Army . |
| 8 | She heard voices which at first made little sense , could not , for the moment , think where she might be or even who she was . |
| 9 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 10 | In 1948 , when Israel was created , Iran allowed Iraqi Jews who unlike Iranian Jews , were being persecuted , to flee to Israel through Iran . |
| 11 | The key is fast access to all information and integration : the ability to provide almost limitless permutations of information combinations — fees by fee-earner by job , profitability by industry sector , the number of clients who like two spoonfuls of sugar in their morning coffee — the possibilities are endless . |
| 12 | someone close to you subjects you to emotional blackmail/puts pressure on you ( ie ‘ It 'll be your fault if I drop dead with a heart attack . ’ |
| 13 | So animal-watching covers everything from microscopic creatures to mammalian giants . |
| 14 | It was er , er , Dunlop factory , wheel , Dunlop wheel something in Dudley , or wheel manufacturers something like this . |
| 15 | Knighton includes among the demands one for free rights of hunting and fishing , and Walsingham also reports an alleged confession by the rebel leader Jack Straw , which suggested far more revolutionary aims , the killing of all the lords and later of the King , the destruction of all possessioner clergy , leaving only the friars , and the creation of kings in all the counties ( 11 , pp.180–6 , 201–7 , 365–6 ) . |
| 16 | I repair cars something like that ! |
| 17 | Better than the knobbly knees one at any rate . |
| 18 | The door of the plane was open and people were coming down the steps one after another . |
| 19 | I also saw faces of people I knew and had met in my life ; they floated in front of my eyes one after another in an endless stream . |
| 20 | ‘ WONDERS ’ hires an advertising agency to design a logo and emblazons it on 10,000 posters , ten billboards and a million brochures . |
| 21 | This investigation takes a single case of such innovation and subjects it to intensive study . |
| 22 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 23 | Decisions in a compliance system are graduated in character ( Eisenberg , 1976 ) , and though in rare cases matters are ultimately settled by adjudication , they are normally controlled by the parties themselves in private , intimate negotiations which rely on bargaining , not adjudication . |
| 24 | Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) . |
| 25 | The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause . |
| 26 | Our budget reflects our commitment to our schools , it aims to improve the level of service to our schools , particularly in the area that 's been identified the schools themselves , by the schools themselves as one of their highe their highest priorities , that was special needs . |
| 27 | For the cultural production which is complained of comes m majority from central market institutions which in all other respects ( and even , practically , in this one ) the state exists to promote and protect , and even , in some cases , from institutions which it directly licenses . |
| 28 | They are also the very wishes which in total welfare states lead to what we may justly term the externalization of paranoia : for in these totalitarian societies the delusions of the paranoiac become actual , tangible realities . |
| 29 | The Democratic candidate made a clean sweep of the states in New England ( the first time since 1964 ) and made inroads into the southern states which in recent years had been solidly Republican . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the economy and society , having been drawn ever more tightly into the world economy by the concentration on cotton , were vulnerable to its widening swings which in 1929 culminated in the Wall Street Crash and the subsequent Depression . |