Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 2 | The traditional way to cook them was fry them alive in hot bacon fat , then add an egg , which had the effect of binding them together . |
| 3 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 4 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 5 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 6 | Makes me introspective about certain things missing from my life these days . ’ |
| 7 | Research projects , many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence , have been funded by ESRC , SERC , ESPRIT and BRAIN in such areas as natural language understanding and computational neuroscience . |
| 8 | Living with somebody depressive has made me depressed on frequent occasions and th th the feelings of helplessness that you have in dealing with the person 's depression . |
| 9 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 10 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 11 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 12 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 13 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 14 | People should contact them direct on 0252 725961 . ’ |
| 15 | Swindon have two features in thier play which make them popular with other teams 1 ) they try and play entertaining football from the back and 2 ) ( most importantly ) they 're shit ! |
| 16 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 17 | I think maybe that 's what 'll keep me sane through this whole trip . ’ |
| 18 | The Government 's announced change of policy on export credit facilities for the republics of the former Soviet Union is welcome , but can the Prime Minister clarify the extent and the effectiveness of these changes in practice , as it appears that the conditions limiting the operation of those credit guarantees is likely to make them unusable for several years to come ? |
| 19 | They are chained separately only to keep them clear of each other . |
| 20 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 21 | Do n't get me wrong on this , this is not in any way , shape or form meant to be a criticism , what we 're trying to do here is to sit down and say that by tomorrow night , can we organise ourselves any better . |
| 22 | What is more , when you take the proceeds , you receive them FREE OF ALL TAXATION , under current legislation . |
| 23 | AS DAY DAWNED in the remote jungle of the Venezuelan Amazonas the traveller reached for his sodden clothes and rotting boots , shook them free of invading ants and poisonous hairy caterpillars , and crawled from his smelly , fungus-covered mosquito net . |
| 24 | You can get them free from most Needle Exchanges and Family Planning Clinics . |
| 25 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 26 | In the 1988 elections to the National Assembly in Cameroun , the two alternative lists of candidates , under a proportional representation system , were consistently doctored to make them indistinguishable from each other . |
| 27 | It kept them apart , kept them foreign to each other , him unhaveable , her unhad . |
| 28 | The bright colours of flowers make them conspicuous from considerable distances . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , a high proportion of those who live beyond 75 will suffer a degree of frailty , ill-health or disability which makes them dependent on external sources of support for their comfort and well-being . |
| 30 | The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own . |