Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh dear me does this tape recorder understand Essex girls ? |
| 2 | It is just this which allows subversive potential to parodic repetition but which also means that the parody will typically be inflected with the ambivalence I have described and , partly because of that ambivalence , oscillate between the political and the anarchic . |
| 3 | I think TV needs a show like this which presents all types of music . |
| 4 | It is this which gives ethical demands , such as those forbidding incest , their sacred character : |
| 5 | The new kit will come in well above ICL 's existing high-end , the eight-way DRS6000 700 which supports 500 users . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the first year , students take one unit which examines contemporary issues in development , and another which studies recent developments in Geography . |
| 8 | One set of potentialities was historically realized , but this itself creates new potentialities , and , of course , leaves many more possibilities still unfulfilled . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | George Will , a political commentator of rarefied taste , is another who thinks that sport should be taken seriously . |
| 11 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 13 | The seven year old who shows outstanding promise when playing the violin , the eight year old who is fascinated with negative numbers , the four year old who can read fluently , the eleven year old who can design computer programmes … must have these gifts cherished , not have them dismissed or confined . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , this one depicts wild flowers , ’ she said . |
| 15 | As far as awful games go this one takes some beating . |
| 16 | If Chung 's studio recording with Kondrashin on Decca tended to lack impetus — the fault of the conductor rather than of the soloist — this one sustains spacious speeds very persuasively indeed . |
| 17 | This one concerns adolescent disillusionment , and comes at the same time as Limestone and Clay ( Secker , £8.99 , 31st ) . |
| 18 | I have an aversion to noisy cameras , and this one rings several decibels before it 's done with selecting and focusing the lens , and winding on the film . |
| 19 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 20 | This one has Ionic columns and a balustrade , and the speaker 's gallery seems to have been right . |
| 21 | Erm this one has four dimensions . |
| 22 | This one has adjustable straps for your comfort and a high-back padded headrest for your baby 's . |
| 23 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 24 | 2 There exists considerable evidence that clients are not able to articulate all their needs and expectations at the system specification stage . |
| 25 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 26 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 27 | By this he gives clear evidence of his innate greatness of soul . |
| 28 | Walker 's study of students at the University of Warwick is concerned with all mature students , however within this he distinguishes two groups , one in which the students did meet the university 's General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) and the second in which they did not ( Walker 1975 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm afraid it looks that way . |
| 30 | In this poem , as in 85 , the Poet claims that his Muse is ‘ tongue-tied ’ ; in 76 , 102 , 103 and 105 he gives conflicting reasons , all ingenious , why he writes such repetitive or uninspired poetry . |