Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 By political I mean those cases which arise out of controversial legislation or controversial action initiated by public authorities , or which touch important moral or social issues .
2 In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane .
3 The other nauseating one was when Gazza scored for england … and MR CompleteUnco/HeadlessChicken/LameHorse carlton palmer ran over to him , joined hands , and ‘ wiggled ’ his lips … sorry I mean hind quarters .
4 This nothing had two functions at least : assassin and whore .
5 Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck .
6 By this I mean those aspects of her I like least .
7 Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members .
8 This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed .
9 When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking .
10 In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes .
11 I think TV needs a show like this which presents all types of music .
12 It is this which gives ethical demands , such as those forbidding incest , their sacred character :
13 Third , there is a small but important category of provision deriving authority from Section 137 in the Local Government Act 1972 which allowed local authorities to spend the product of a rate of 2p in the pound on anything ‘ which in their opinion is in the interests of their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants ’ .
14 The new kit will come in well above ICL 's existing high-end , the eight-way DRS6000 700 which supports 500 users .
15 The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives .
16 And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders .
17 An idea of the size of the secondary market in non-gilt sterling bonds is given by Table 3.7 which shows outstanding amounts of such bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange at end September 1991 .
18 In the first year , students take one unit which examines contemporary issues in development , and another which studies recent developments in Geography .
19 Chapters 3–4 Who said these words in the story ?
20 AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ .
21 So it 's a very inconve if someone said to you come up er okay this you put initial values in
22 Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle .
23 One set of potentialities was historically realized , but this itself creates new potentialities , and , of course , leaves many more possibilities still unfulfilled .
24 The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) .
25 They are loathe to admit it , but those few who have single cells will weep into their pillows at night .
26 You want some you want some ringleaders who get on well , so you sort of bully them into things , which Donna is !
27 After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors .
28 Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital .
29 No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money .
30 Indeed not ten years old she knew such words ( and the meaning ) as larynx and spleen and rigor mortis .
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