Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Ann Curnow , QC , for Danny Palmer , in mitigation asked the judge to bear in mind his desperately unhappy background . |
| 2 | When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ? |
| 3 | He once gave a beggar his nearly new velvet suit — doubtless glad of the chance to get rid of it . |
| 4 | As in 1970 with Egypt , so after 1982 the Soviet Union gave Syria its most sophisticated air defence system and missile system , and tactical ballistic missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv . |
| 5 | Probably it was the subject of the Northumbrian songs which so scandalised Aleuin . |
| 6 | While Miles and Gregory have still to decide whether to stay with Wigan for another season , the continuing dominance of a club which only 10 years ago was not considered to have one player good enough to start the series against Australia , is almost total . |
| 7 | ‘ The question of how to resolve the fear which so many people have in Hong Kong was omitted , ’ said Peter Harris , a political scientist . |
| 8 | Another instance of apparent passive margin asymmetry is provided by the eastern margin of Australia , which has a marked upwarp which forms the Great Dividing Range , and the Lord Howe Rise which represents a now submerged fragment of continental crust which around 95 Ma BP. rifted away from eastern Australia studies of extensional terranes , such as the Basin and Range Province of the south-western USA , using seismic methods have revealed shallow-dipping faults which appear to extend through the entire lithosphere . |
| 9 | These community groups themselves provide a range of welfare and cultural services and can help reduce the isolation which so many refugees experience . |
| 10 | The railways provided a cheap , efficient method of bulk transportation which dramatically lowered costs . |
| 11 | But without western investment their already degraded energy complex would grind to a halt . |
| 12 | If anything , TV should enhance the value of those unspoken moments so rendingly charted in this production , and it will preserve three near-definitive performances which too few people were able to see last year either at Stratford or the Young Vic : operate singer White 's sweet-faced Moor , shiningly simple acting about which many London critics were unduly patronising ; McKellen 's sweaty and furious Iago ; and Zoe Wanamaker 's unforgettable Emilia , a belated voice of conscience and wisdom in a household destroyed by passion . |
| 13 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 14 | The man altered course impatiently to deal with the interruption ; just under six foot , he looked smaller because of the width of the powerful sloping shoulders which even good tailoring could do little to minimize . |
| 15 | It later transpired that the Russians knew perfectly well what had happened , but were obviously enjoying the confusion their seemingly naive questions were provoking . |
| 16 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 17 | Nothing that would stand looking at too closely , of course , but it was like all the best illusions that she 'd ever seen , onstage or off because for all its contrivance , in the moment of perception it somehow transcended reality . |
| 18 | Born in about 1819 , the son of a minor chieftain in the district of Kwara in western Abyssinia , this outstanding man started his career as an outlaw with a small but devoted following ; by 1854 he had subjugated Gondar and Gojjam and the following year , having defeated at Derasge in Simien his most formidable rival , the ruler of Tigre , he proclaimed himself Emperor and took the name of Theodore . |
| 19 | Although at the local level we will be pursuing similar objectives , when it comes tot he wider national issues , it will be CPRW that speaks out for those who not only care about the Park , but also see it as a special part of a special country . |
| 20 | With it being Tuesday our all important feature our missing persons feature Where Are You Now around about half past three . |
| 21 | The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) . |
| 22 | Research is commonly taken to be the specialist and reserved occupation of theorists , an activity which is carried out in detachment from the immediacy of actual events and requiring knowledge and expertise of a kind which only academic intellectuals can legitimately claim to have . |
| 23 | To retain the support of the landowners , the regime continued throughout the 1950s to channel state funds into the agricultural sector and to support it with protectionist policies which merely sustained inefficiency and low productivity . |
| 24 | Both on and off campus students demonstrated against Israeli and Jordanian interference and fought bitter internal representative elections which were closely followed by the community , since they reflected the moods and internal conflicts which so fragmented society . |
| 25 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 26 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 27 | The advert gave the story its vaguely Thirties setting . |
| 28 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 29 | Reptiles become progressively more efficient , just waiting for improvements which only increasing size facilitates , eventually anticipating full homeothermy . |
| 30 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |