Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 2 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 3 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 4 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 5 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |
| 6 | Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ . |
| 7 | " Comrade Alice , there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life — it depends on what the aim is . |
| 8 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 9 | In one case , it was said that ‘ it was the 15-year-old girl who was the dominant partner in the relationship ’ with a 28-year-old woman separated from her husband , while in the other case ‘ a pretty 15-year-old schoolgirl skipped lessons to have a lesbian love affair ’ ; however the defence counsel said that her mother had told police she thought there was nothing wrong with a lesbian relationship and ‘ if it had not been for the age of the young lady , none of us would be here today ’ . |
| 10 | There is nothing wrong with a quick , highly-charged performance of the Fourth Symphony . |
| 11 | For its weight , there is really nothing wrong with the mechanical properties of wood and the weight of wooden structures is generally at least comparable to that of metal ones . |
| 12 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 13 | I only hope there 's nothing wrong with the poor fellow . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the definitive Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , added : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 15 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 16 | It is being suggested , is it , that God saw nothing wrong with the past situation in which only men could be ordained ? |
| 17 | ‘ We need to get player representation involved when such changes are in the air because , frankly , I saw nothing wrong with the old laws — just the way some countries played them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the old ways . ’ |
| 19 | The kairos approach makes God both immoral ( if God saw nothing wrong with the previous sexism of the church 's stance ) and fickle . |
| 20 | There was nothing wrong with the heavy net curtains of Healy 's Hotel . |
| 21 | There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship . |
| 22 | In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts . |
| 23 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 24 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 25 | They formed in 1980 as a purely instrumental jazz-funk band and their excellent playing always kept them interesting as a live band : I know ‘ they can really play their instruments ’ is a boring credential , but it can count for something . |
| 26 | I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not . |
| 27 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 28 | So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit . |
| 29 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
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