Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1953 Act was passed primarily to deal with the problems of preserving houses or buildings which were inhabited or ‘ capable of occupation ’ — these were not covered by the earlier legislation . |
| 2 | Party control over the army , KGB , state administration , economic management and other public institutions and professional groups that staff them does not lead to unity of interest among them ( Hirszowicz 1976 , p. 270 ) . |
| 3 | As strategic planning is concerned with broad policies and goals it has to relate the organisation to its environment and predict the effects of any changes in that environment . |
| 4 | But the experienced specialist has professional skills and insights which suggest that better results in the longer term could come from challenging some clients on their analysis of the situation . |
| 5 | Bonilla argues that the lack of integration of Rio 's favelados ( the inhabitants of Brazilian shanty towns ) into city life is due to their rural values and orientations which are different from those of the city-born and though modified to some extent by the new situation , still hinder a smooth-adaptation ( Bonilla 1970 ) . |
| 6 | American-born Adelle Corrin , who lives and works in London , creates some of the finest contemporary , grisaille glass , and also makes vibrant windows from what she calls ‘ the primaries , the strong reds and blues which juxtapose excitingly . |
| 7 | Text entry is not quite so simple and a little and time consuming , but it does allow for individual pieces of text to be attached to specific notes and symbols which stay attached to the correct notes even when you have edited a piece extensively . |
| 8 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 9 | How far direct participation on the Greek model is possible in the modern world is , of course , another matter ; although a citizen body of 40,000 is a great deal larger than many present-day groups or institutions which would regard direct democracy as impracticable , as well as undesirable . |
| 10 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |
| 11 | There are a number of unwritten rules or axioms which perhaps need to be questioned . |
| 12 | Er , and then er I also attended er er political discussions and lectures which were laid on er by the communist party as well . |
| 13 | Certain groups are better rewarded , not because they are functionally more important than others , but because they are well organised in trade unions or professional associations , having developed and used strategies and ideologies which further their claims for differential rewards effectively . |
| 14 | As students , McLaren and Reid became enamoured of Situationism , a philosophy spawned in the late Fifties by a group of European artists and intellectuals which advocated the overthrow of capitalism by shock , scandal and pranks . |
| 15 | These views depend on political values and preferences which we are not going to explore here , but clearly if you believe that society as a whole will gain by children from all income groups being educated together , or children from a local community or religious group being educated together , you will prefer a system of finance that favours such provision . |
| 16 | If , for example , you are running a recipe or a beauty information service you will be able , over time , to build up a list of regional dailies and weeklies who use the material regularly . |
| 17 | We have already noted the sense of smell in our examination of the effect of the subtle essences and perfumes which emanate from the trees and herbs at a site . |
| 18 | Although the resolutions , one of which dealt exclusively with rape , were adopted without a vote , Islamic states and Bosnia itself spent more than an hour in an unsuccessful effort amend the other resolution , which condemned ethnic cleansing , by deleting a reference to ‘ violations by all sides to the conflict ’ . |
| 19 | A useful if rather schematic starting-point is Lawton 's ( 1983 ) division of cultures into eight aspects or sub-systems which he argues can be used to analyse any culture : the social system , economic system , communication system , rationality system , technology system , morality system , belief system and aesthetic system . |
| 20 | Five of them to one desperately weakened pony with sunken eyes and ribs you could play tunes on — lassoing it with weighted thongs , and pulling it over and over on the desperately hard ground , until it was crapping everywhere in terror . |
| 21 | Try to anticipate any controversial subjects and disasters you might have to mention , or avoid mentioning , in the course of your speech . |
| 22 | It can also help to raise your awareness of new research and any political influences or undercurrents which stand to affect the way services are managed . |
| 23 | Therefore it may be advantageous to sole traders or partners whose incomes from the business mean that they are taxed under Schedule D at a higher rate to convert the business into a company to minimize the amount of tax to be paid out of the profits made . |
| 24 | But of course , her father had confused those looks for her , given her hazel eyes and hair whose redness owed more to carrots than claret … |
| 25 | With narrow lips and eyes he faced the strolling irony of the afternoon crowds , the young , the robed incurious foreigners . |
| 26 | So while the expectation of altruism mathematically relating to kin relatedness is almost inevitably doomed to be disproved in human societies , there is now considerable evidence that sociobiology identifies some broad relationships and tendencies which are incontrovertible . |
| 27 | * Other words which carry presuppositions are the adverbial words and phrases which mean " again " ( ITERATIVES ) : Emily Brontë began writing the novel once more . |
| 28 | Five , six and seven year olds are perfectly capable of working on drama for an hour and a half or more at a time , but they need very clear tasks , strong images and narratives which are intriguing and above all dramatic . |
| 29 | Now , Soft Byte has a group of professional designers and knitters who contribute ideas on a regular basis and provide expert advice . |
| 30 | It is , therefore , perhaps not surprising to see that many of the evaluation studies described in the library literature give accounts of the evaluation of specific methods and media which have been used in library instruction rather than evaluation of programmes of instruction . |