Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sample of groups used by Collier and Rosaldo , upon which they constructed their model , skewed the data ; for they were all peoples who place immense value upon' Man the Hunter and Warrior' , and who also elaborate ritually upon the violent , destructive , and fertile potential in men . |
| 2 | For it is an ethnic conflict , between peoples who see each other at close range . |
| 3 | Yet the mega-buck manager of Ewood could have had little complaint — Rovers lost to a side who played revivalist football of a kind manager Howard Kendall has waited 22 months to see . |
| 4 | Its interior used some of the finest craftsmen of the day , not least the woodcarver Grinling Gibbons who decorated one room with a welter of natural images . |
| 5 | ( The highspot for the 600,000 fans who flock each year to the Graceland mansion shrine is the famous jungle room , where their idol used to watch three televised football games at once ) . |
| 6 | Thus , a litigant who claimed any form of injunction had an unfettered right of appeal . |
| 7 | Our college 's initial provision for ‘ students with special needs ’ was established in 1978 — a ‘ discrete ’ course for students with moderate learning difficulties or , in some instances , school leavers from high schools who needed extra support before joining training schemes . |
| 8 | These requirements were not satisfied in Schroeder because the contract was imposed on the plaintiff by a defendant who had greater bargaining power which he used oppressively . |
| 9 | that of robbing the victim , a defendant who has sexual intercourse with her whilst she is insensible will not be guilty of rape . |
| 10 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 11 | In October we launched our new Subscribers ' Club for the many thousands of readers who take Ideal Home on subscription . |
| 12 | The successful candidate will be required to write news and feature articles directed at Fairplay 's readers who hold senior management positions . |
| 13 | Readers who book residential accommodation will be entitled to £20 discount per person , per night . |
| 14 | Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected . |
| 15 | If we are concerned with readers who have sensory deprivation , or if we are confronted with unfamiliar alphabets — in the writer 's case examples of these would be Arabic or Japanese — there may be much preparation before the process can continue . |
| 16 | Where the sting is not a matter of general knowledge , its defamatory capacity is judged by its impact upon ordinary readers who have such knowledge — if the plaintiff can first prove that such persons were amongst the actual readership . |
| 17 | I would be very interested to hear from any readers who experience this effect , or who find even the presence of electricity disturbing . |
| 18 | 280 , the defendants , owners of a newspaper , carried an advertisement in each issue informing readers who wanted financial advice to write to a given address . |
| 19 | The legendary Jon the Postman , ( the ultimate fan of seventies punk who achieved minor fame by clambering on to the stage and reciting ‘ Louie Louie ’ at the finish of every Buzzcocks gig ) : ‘ The Smiths are a great rock 'n' roll band . |
| 20 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |
| 21 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 22 | Ellen , usually so quick with a scornful reply , just stood and stared at the elegant stranger who stopped one pace away from her , took her hand , then bowed above her fingers . |
| 23 | We have a number of technicians in the environmental health department who do some sterling work , and I know that no one here would want you to suppose that they are a kind of second-string person . |
| 24 | In a hill village to the south-west , the guide delivered her to the house of an Armenian priest who spoke passable French . |
| 25 | Er , no , there 's Joanna one of the girls I look after and er Rebecca who lives next door to me , erm some friends of ours years ago were going to , were thinking of buying it , it was about five thousand pounds then , so it shows ya how long ago it is |
| 26 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |
| 27 | Almost everyone in Britain and the United States who has any acquaintance with law believes that Parliament and Congress and the various state legislatures make law and that past judicial decisions must be given credit in later ones . |
| 28 | there 's people in the States who have this sort of thing done and its not , its not a problem |
| 29 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 30 | David Jansen played a liberal journalist who criticizes American involvement in Vietnam until he witnesses the aftermath of Viet Cong atrocities . |