Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 2 | With a Fender Princeton Reverb II as a test amp , the Signature model 's custom-wound Seymours prove themselves to be all smooth power , full and solid , with plenty of mid-range . |
| 3 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 4 | say by the way Jim you could have fixed that boiler take everyone off the pipes |
| 5 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 6 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 7 | I shall describe these approaches as ideal types , but in each case illustrate them by reference to the work of one or another theologian . |
| 8 | In that case use it in scientific and then it will work that way . |
| 9 | What else can all those live debates , public barrackings and strange hours equip you for ? |
| 10 | A social studies programme must suggest the use of resources such as the market , the shop , the dispensary or the roadside , even though its makers may be aware that a very large number of deep rural schools have none of these resources at hand . |
| 11 | The swirling shapes remind me of those kitsch 1960s lamps . |
| 12 | Serbian opponents accuse him of blackmail and extortion . |
| 13 | Investigations of this kind reveal something of the structure of poverty by indicating those who were kept going by the poor rate , the only eighteenth-century tax which was redistributive . |
| 14 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 15 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 16 | At other times cultural groups regard themselves in a superior relationship to other cultures . |
| 17 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 18 | I only hope that the civic authorities have them under better control than they seem to be here . |
| 19 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 21 | Some authorities subdivide them into three types — the down-awn hairs , the awn hairs and the guard-awn hairs — but these subtle distinctions are of little value . |
| 22 | In Germany , workplace representatives in this industry see themselves as part of the administrative framework for the smooth conduct of industrial relations and work within given administrative and legal constraints . |
| 23 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 24 | Good luck to all those , and there are dozens , who this spring find themselves beyond the dressing-room doors . |
| 25 | The legs are oleo-pneumatic ; small Schrader-type valves enable them to be kept to the correct pressure . |
| 26 | It 's in books a few books have it in it . |
| 27 | Few homes have anything like enough socket outlets , and so people are tempted to use multiple adaptors , and trail l=flexes all over the house in a desperate attempt to get power where they want it . |
| 28 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | Some animals protect themselves against being eaten by containing poisonous or sickening substances . |
| 30 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |