Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | However , if they are applied in a legalistic or academic manner it is only too easy for the best interests of air safety to be pushed back into a position of secondary importance . |
2 | I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory . |
3 | At this or any stage it may be that one or both of them finds that initial attraction is not supported by later experience . |
4 | In a commercial or industrial setting it is often assumed that organisations try to maximise profits as their main goal . |
5 | It is characteristically red , with an M-type spectrum , and at maximum it may rise to magnitude 5.4 , so that it is then an easy binocular object ; with × 12 or higher magnification I have seen strong colour in it . |
6 | He would then work until approximately 6.00 or 6.30 , and if there was no social or literary event he felt obliged to attend , would take a taxi back to Carlyle Mansions . |
7 | A person is entitled to act for the protection of livestock if either the livestock or the land on which it is belongs to him or to any person under whose express or implied authority he is acting ; and he is deemed to be acting for their protection if and only if , either : |
8 | Based on the data from this and other work we can suggest certain recommendations for the clinical management of children with severe established glue ear . |
9 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
10 | Although it could be assumed by some that this is a development towards a more specialized and fragmented approach it may alternatively be a foundation for a more unified approach and one which accommodates the necessity to combine understanding at the microphysiology and biochemistry ( realist ? ) level with that at the biome level which had traditionally been approached more in functional terms . |
11 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
12 | Increasingly it had seemed that the only time Laura saw Ross was when he slid into bed at night , and would once again become the demanding and passionate lover she had married . |
13 | Thus we have low status , low paid women care assistants , given little overt recognition for the demanding and difficult task they do , caring mostly for elderly women . |
14 | Sometimes his Bible meetings are very interesting and another time it can be very boring . |
15 | Now she suddenly thought what an interesting and novel item it would make in the fete if the Pack dressed up as Brownies through the years , showing the Brownie uniform from the first days to the present time . |
16 | The rather light and flowing performance it receives here from I Soloisti di Zagreb and conductor Antonio Janigro is not inappropriate , given the movement 's origins in a string quartet by Barber . |
17 | No sensitive person can today walk through the redeveloped areas of British towns and feel a sense of pride in the architectural and social achievement they represent . |
18 | In A High And Lonely Place he makes a trenchant analysis of the despoilation of the Cairngorms . |
19 | Really , this is just about the most entertaining and agreeable conversation he has ever taken part in ! |
20 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
21 | His touch could be wonderfully gentle , but it was never tentative ; he laid hands on holy things with the same direct and innocent fearlessness he used towards men and women . |
22 | From the point of view of social and economic policy I believe we face a choice : either we accept the present trends which will lead inevitably to a decline in individual freedom and responsibility and the restriction of opportunities for our children and grandchildren or else we face the seemingly impossible task of dismantling the corporate state . |
23 | The large , powerful estate owners in Castile and Andalusia continued to exercise the social and economic power they had enjoyed for centuries , based on their monopoly holding of the principal economic resources . |
24 | In this social and economic climate it is idle to attribute the decline of personal saving , when it occurs , to the taxation system . |
25 | Given these observations upon the complexity of criminal law as a social and moral phenomenon it follows that it can exist as an ‘ introductory ’ subject only through its radical distortion , simplification , amputation and eclecticism . |
26 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
27 | This exercise should help to clarify the kind of theoretical and practical knowledge you need to update and give you valuable insight into the nature of the job before you return to practice safely and enjoyably . |
28 | Now when she saw him drinking , wild-eyed and aggressive , in her inner eye she kept the vision of the distinguished and striking man she knew him to be . |
29 | ‘ Do n't touch me ! ’ she yelled , and like a little wet and muddy wildcat she wrenched herself free of his grip . |
30 | Mountain bikes do n't have guards because if you 're using them on wet and muddy terrain you do n't want to constantly have to stop to unclog the wheels . |