Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 2 | They set out to make sweeping historical epics but all they can come up with are mini-series with no ad breaks . |
| 3 | Infact it is alot easier doing something like this than going into the ring because you see all their fresh faces and all they care about is having their quetions answered . |
| 4 | And from such moments as these we will be whirled to the uproarious , the piercing , the magdalen , the strange and the voluptuous . |
| 5 | On such grounds as these he argued that the experience of the author and that of the reader must necessarily be different , that ‘ what a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author ’ ( Eliot 1955 : 130 ) . |
| 6 | Within such broad frameworks as these it also seems likely , however , that political sociologists will in future give more attention to the distinctive cultural traditions and historical experiences , and the specific conditions and problems , which a particular state , or group of states , confronts . |
| 7 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 8 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 9 | He made the connection between these bodies and those he saw all around him — clothed , partially clothed , or unclothed in the roaring maelstrom of the school changing rooms . |
| 10 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 11 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 12 | They were all , there were no white sinks as such they were all brown . |
| 13 | but then later on in the day he rung back and said he had found some bilingual signs but all he 's got were about four foot square er with census point ahead . |
| 14 | I offered my profuse apologies but all she could say was ‘ Can ye no take care o ’ yer dug ! ’ |
| 15 | The revised tenancies and those they replaced differ from the regulated tenancies under the 1977 Rent Act in that there is a weakening of security of tenure and other rights , and most rents will be set at market level . |
| 16 | They have many gifts and all they want is people to encourage them . |
| 17 | I think the inde independent corroboration for actuaries was another important factor , custody confirmation by the auditors , veto of transfer of assets , independent auditors for pension funds , independent custodian arrangements , in-house investment management , you made some comments , co-ordination of the various regulators , co-ordination of the professional advisers , establishment of the Pension Tribunal , you know now as far as I was concerned on on my sort of looking through it , those were all recommendations that that you have made over your two years and I could n't really find any response to those in Good , and I think that 's er you know we we personally found that disappointing . |
| 18 | When he pulled her back she expected very harsh reprisals but all she got was a very speculating look . |
| 19 | My biases are of course no more or less biases than those I am going to examine . |
| 20 | Next to that of Suez in 1956 , it had divided more families than any I can remember . |
| 21 | I tell you what , you to make mistakes in your life , I mean and , I just , well one of those things that that I 'm pleased about , is that I just George when |
| 22 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 23 | There are many more pests than those we shall discuss here — but these are the most serious , and those you are most likely to meet . |
| 24 | At a distance , the leafy forest drowns the higher-pitched calls and all you hear are the rapid drum-beats . |
| 25 | One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances and all they could do was make up imaginary England cricket teams . |
| 26 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 27 | But even then , over most periods of five years or more you would have done much better with shares . |
| 28 | These are discrete behaviours and all they require is a simple tick every time they are observed . |
| 29 | You thought you 'd play — for higher stakes than those he was offering . |
| 30 | All of us have a tendency to put off the difficult tasks or those we dislike . |