Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now these fears have been compounded by a sixth profitability study by accountants Spicer & Oppenheim whose gloomy conclusions may well prolong the sector 's agonies further . |
| 2 | Wrens Quickso in Darlington ( 352–577 ) will take up a hem from £3.60 , put in a zip from £3.75 or taper your old flares for £6 or so . |
| 3 | While the Chicago School certainly addressed the expressive order in problematic ways , their critics have thrown out the baby with the bathwater ; misinterpreting or misunderstanding what these sociologists were attempting . |
| 4 | As such , it can not be restricted to the description of linguistic forms independent of the purposes or functions which those forms are designed to serve in human affairs . |
| 5 | People seek the benefits that products provide , rather than the products or brands themselves Specific products or brands should therefore be differentiated by those combinations of benefits and costs sought by a particular set of potential customers . |
| 6 | The EC regime will replace national systems under which bananas cost less in Germany and the Netherlands than in Spain , France or Britain whose overseas territories or former colonies grow more expensive bananas than large-scale Latin American plantations . |
| 7 | A characteristic of subdivision is an attribute or property which all concepts in a given facet have in common and by which isolates can be grouped . |
| 8 | There are therefore good reasons to think that those who try to define democracy only in terms of present-day realities — 5 a type of political system or culture which some societies possess and others do not — will find themselves left behind by history . |
| 9 | A colourful and exciting celebration in song and dance of those two giants of the American musical theatre RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN whose captivating melodies and lyrics are played somewhere throughout the world every day of the year ! |
| 10 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 11 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 12 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 13 | This means jobs for 23,400 typists and supervisers whose varying rates of productivity come under fire . |
| 14 | It seems cruel that what is encouraged and praised in girls as children ( and is also , after all , an expression of identity and creativity which little boys too could benefit from ) is suddenly , at age eleven seen as vanity , and a sign of low intellect . |
| 15 | In education two new city technology colleges were announced and attempts were to be made to extend the system of ‘ compacts ’ between business , schools and colleges.under which all pupils/students are guaranteed jobs with local firms when they leave school . |
| 16 | In one central passage the Apostle Paul brings together the essence of this teaching from both Testaments , and with some clearly articulated principles lays down teaching which has many straightforward and practical applications for the frustrations and conflicts which many families experience today . |
| 17 | Exceptional groups profited from the war — notably those like shipbuilders and coopers whose specialised services were much in demand for the naval war . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the need for the United Kingdom to remain a receptive and attractive base for inward investment . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the impact of the Trades Union Congress 's attitude to Japanese inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the impact of regulatory burdens on industry . |
| 21 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |
| 22 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 23 | ( Such jargon does contribute , however , as archaeology deals with many sites , objects , and even tribes and nations whose actual names are unknown . ) |
| 24 | Fourthly , the skills and methods which social workers developed during the welfare state era are relevant as never before ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Parsloe , 1988 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) : psychosocial assessments , direct work with children , maintaining links , interprofessional collaboration . |
| 25 | Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices who wondrous things have done rejoices . |
| 26 | Edward was pro-Norman , his court filled with barons and clergy whose French possessions were swelled by grants of English land . |
| 27 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 28 | Obviously , there are still many other problems to be overcome , including the possible effect of targeting genes and proteins which normal cells depend on for their own growth control . |
| 29 | Ingeniously designed , the main cabin contained a stove , a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables . |
| 30 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |