Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the proportionate use of custody is very much lower in magistrates ' courts ( at 5.1 per cent for adults in 1999 ) than it is in Crown Courts ( where the corresponding figure was 47.6 per cent : Home Office , 1990f ) . |
| 2 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 3 | A similar picture emerges in the case of women except that women 's earnings at all levels are only two-thirds of men 's . |
| 4 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 5 | Children or young people were responsible for instigating the complaint and consequently social workers and police officers were highly dependent on children 's testimonies . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the data derived from this study about caring is obviously dependent upon respondents ' perception of their status as either carers or non-carers . |
| 7 | She used not to be so censorious of others ' behaviour but her own betrayal had , she thought , seared her more than she understood . |
| 8 | It took a long time for the penny to drop with me about why I was so apparently popular in men 's organizations in the aftermath of so many women deciding to work separately . |
| 9 | Subsection 2(f) specifically empowers regulations to be made which authorise the retention by firms " of so much of clients ' money as represents interest " . |
| 10 | In one sense the Child Poverty Action Group ( CPAG ) was also a surprising ally : since its inception it had cap-tured the idea that family allowances were a bulwark , not so much against women 's economic dependence on men , but rather against the exigencies of low pay . |
| 11 | The councils have ‘ tackled a great variety of jobs : commenting on local plans , clearing up their area , dealing with traffic problems , organising carol services and other social events , protesting about bus routes and becoming involved in the many other neighbourhood activities so typical of residents ' groups and parish pump politics ’ ( Boaden et al . |
| 12 | Again , as in the previous case , if this aesthetic response is accepted as especially characteristic of women 's moral awareness , it can be argued that it is an important element to incorporate in any full account of the moral . |
| 13 | The struggle against the powerlessness encouraged by the medical model , especially in certain political settings , has been at the core of many liberation movements and this struggle has been especially powerful within women 's liberation movements . |
| 14 | Such a period was largely unknown to earlier generations , and the implications of this change are especially important in women 's lives ( Titmuss , 1958 ; Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 16 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 17 | THE Ombudsman 's report on the Barlow Clowes affair in which 18,000 investors lost £100 million is expected to be highly critical of ministers ' role in the affair . |
| 18 | Lush do n't sing about the sort of thing that Hole and Babes sing about , but it does n't say anything less worthwhile about women 's experience . |
| 19 | But inquest necessitated a professionalism long absent from castellans ' courts . |
| 20 | Some pointed out that even the MacBride Report with all its emphasis on democratic communication was highly defective on women 's issues . |
| 21 | He was a vigorous opponent of the ‘ impossibilities ’ in Scotland and London , anti-syndicalist in general , hostile to the Pankhursts [ qq.v. ] , and only lukewarm on women 's suffrage . |
| 22 | This might lead to the assumption that they are less sensitive to others ' misunderstanding than are adults . |
| 23 | Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers ' discussions about arterial accessibility . |
| 24 | He said the survey also showed that people believed ‘ the experts ’ had already made up their minds and were not interested in others ' views . |
| 25 | It is also unlikely to be popular with car-owning residents well aware of the increased likelihood of car vandalism or theft in garages not subject to residents ' casual surveillance . |
| 26 | The small holdings of government debt and of net short-term assets ( mainly bank deposits ) is a reflection of the point we observed earlier , namely , that investment trusts are not subject to savers ' redemptions . |
| 27 | Liturgies raising social and development issues , such as Christian Aid liturgies , were often used on less formal occasions , and were often not central to churches ' worshipping pattern . |
| 28 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 29 | Forward , the ILP paper , which was not unsympathetic to women 's causes , including suffrage , nevertheless commented sternly : We do n't think this quite satisfactory . |
| 30 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |