Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | The new realists took an unblinking look at the human effects of welfare economics and the emergent morality of a nation slowly quitting austerity for affluence ; the old romantics looked rather to recover a world of fine fabling like Spenser 's Faerie Queene or the Victorian children 's stories of George MacDonald . |
2 | Where the company is a parent or subsidiary undertaking or where the total directors ' emoluments ( including pension contributions ) is £60,000 or more , the following should be disclosed : emoluments of chairman emoluments of highest paid director if they exceed the emoluments of the chairman the number of directors whose emoluments fall within rising bands of £5,000 . |
3 | Where the company is a parent or subsidiary undertaking or where the total directors ' emoluments ( including pension contributions ) is £60,000 or more , disclose the number of directors waiving emoluments and the total amount ( including pension contributions ) thereof . |
4 | URGENT — NDO would like to hear from any teacher interested in a men 's class in London SW1 ( evening ) or a handicapped children 's class at Dartford . |
5 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
6 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
7 | Is it possible that the Drunken Poets ' scene was in the original version of the show ? |
8 | As for the comment that umpires should start enforcing this law , I assure Mr. Byran that the first-class umpires ' panel , the best in the world , are fully aware of the law , very observant , and most certainly fearless in its application . |
9 | If you are already engaged in running a small business , you will probably hardly need reminding that the small companies ' rate of corporation tax is 25 per cent ( instead of the 33 per cent standard rate for larger concerns ) . |
10 | Lexandro had expected that the Imperial Fists ' home-base would be on a world . |
11 | Besides , the caption made it clear that the International Women 's Day included much more of substance : ‘ … music , workshops , speakers and exhibitions from around the world . ’ |
12 | However , lined up alongside such vintage stuff as seen on Pages 48 and 49 , we think you 'll agree that the following rogues ' gallery is a pretty ropey showing . |
13 | It is difficult to believe that the ordinary courts ' particular interpretation of all of these terms will necessarily be better than that of the tribunal . |
14 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
15 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
16 | He argues — irrefutably , I believe , despite his oversimplification of Latin theology — that the early fathers ' understanding of God 's war with the Devil was obscured by rejigging the drama of what I have called the Great Battle into a legalistic rational framework . |
17 | They felt that there were some fundamental problems within the education system on the islands , problems that the official teachers ' union were failing to redress . |
18 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
19 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
20 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
21 | It 's an additive that the Hyperactive Children 's Support Group recommends eliminating from the diet of susceptible children . |
22 | Yesterday William Weatherspoon , the conference chairman , and former Inverness headmaster , said this year 's conference had provided hopeful signs that the various churches ' positions could be harmonised . |
23 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
24 | It should also be recognised that the emerging women 's movement of the late 1960s was part of this politicisation process . |
25 | Rather he points to the theoretical paradox involved , namely that the human sciences ' very emphasis on historicity as a mode of being was equally applicable to themselves as forms of knowledge , and inevitably destroyed any attempt to formulate universal laws comparable to those of the natural sciences . |
26 | In the building industry in France , Sweden , Britain and West Germany the fact that the respective employers ' organisations are essentially federations is also tied up with the structure of collective bargaining , since in most cases the local or regional organisation was — or is — a bargaining agent ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
27 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
28 | so you say it must be implicit in that decision that the , the commission was satisfied that the objective criteria er would separate the sheep from the goats , erm so that no one who would , would be excluded who was capable of competing |
29 | The club was reacting to a proposal by Glasgow Brightsiders that the Scottish men 's first division should consist of just six teams next season . |
30 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |