Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , ‘ moral collapse ’ or synonyms for such a phrase rarely find their way into the accounts of the period provided by ‘ liberal-historians ’ .
2 Jarvis informs the public that to provide one 's relatives or friends with such a container would bring peace of mind .
3 ( 3 ) In determining the value , under paragraph ( 1 ) , of an action which is brought by more than one plaintiff or applicant regard shall be had to the aggregate of the expectations or interests of all the plaintiffs or applicants .
4 All Nora could say was that funds in all the banks were exhausted and their known outgoings over the next four weeks exceeded their best estimate of income three-fold .
5 With close to 100 entries , there were more Dexters than entries in all the other dairy breeds added together at the show .
6 Although versions of all the papers in the collection have been published elsewhere ( but not always in English ) , they are cited here in these easily available versions except where the date or other details of the original publications are particularly relevant .
7 If personal relationships counted for a great deal more than structures in such a world , nobility and kinship gave a man claims on royal favour ; and the most influential men — the holders of the key household offices , for instance — were those with special Königsnähe .
8 ‘ What with your fantastic chestnut hair , beautiful eyes and skin , not to mention a figure that curves in all the right places , it was a foregone conclusion that some egotistical snake would chance his arm before too long . ’
9 In Paragraph one oh nine , and one ten , th , I do actually draw your attention to two areas , though I think that members amongst all the issues that we have to deal with erm , to bear in mind in particular , and indeed the first one , probably the most important , in the sense of the longer term financial indications to reduce the extension of it is , limits that are being imposed upon local government generally , and of course here in Lincolnshire in particularly , in particular .
10 This suggests that axons within such a bundle recognise one another using molecular cues and as such its relevance may be quite general .
11 The supposition that Theunis — or maybe his father — invented the name Krankoor shortly before emigrating comes from the fact that no surviving Krankoors , nor records of such a family , have come to light in Holland ; two Crankos live in The Hague but they are recent arrivals from South Africa .
12 It is worth pointing out that advocates of such a curriculum do not see knowledge as inert and impersonal but as something which can deeply affect the way an individual thinks , behaves and views the world .
13 This implied ‘ that employees of such a national service should receive a fair and adequate wage , and that , in broad terms , the railwayman should be in no worse case than his colleague in a comparable industry ’ ( Cameron 1955 : 6 ) .
14 Instead information is being collected on the background and activities of all the members of a number of the quasi-groups who make up the core fans .
15 Michael Mansfield , QC , for Kennedy , submitted that the nature of the defence , involving an allegation that a police officer killed Mr Quinn , made the whereabouts and activities of all the police working in and from the station that night important .
16 He 's also after cheats and maps for all the games in the Dizzy Collection … any takers ?
17 The throne is of very solid wood , carved with symbols and sigils of all the major powers of Chaos and Evil .
18 Flamenco at its most heart stoppingly authentic ’ The Guardian Dancers and musicians with all the romance , power , heat and rhythm of Spain .
19 This sad state of affairs may be attributed to feckless parents or to a society which projects its standards and values in such an ambivalent way .
20 Treaty , is entitled to require of a national of another member state who wishes to operate a fishing vessel flying its flag and , in particular , can it stipulate , as the Act of 1988 does , that all the owners and operators of such a vessel and 75 per cent .
21 Re-constituted in 1979 , with a clerk provided by NACRO and administrative expenses funded by a grant from a charitable trust , MPs and peers from all the main political parties met to discuss current issues of criminal justice policy and practice .
22 To Catholics , and indeed most Christians , there is one sin that stands head and shoulders above all the rest , and that is sex — thinking about it , and in this case , writing about it .
23 For instance , we can picture the meaning of a word as a pattern of affinities and disaffinities with all the other words in the language with which it is capable of contrasting semantic relations in grammatical contexts .
24 The closer the revolutionaries came to immediate issues and tactics in such a context , the greater the strain in reconciling internationalism and nationalism .
25 The room is darkened and the ghost appears in a sheet and waves to all the children before disappearing again .
26 A unique reference tool it shows clearly the shapes and styles of all the items included and illustrates the terms used to describe them .
27 Then Fif 's mandroids pushed their way through , and in the melee I managed to scuttle on hands and knees among all the legs before getting up and getting myself and my aching face away from there .
28 I obtained the names and addresses of all the next-of-kin .
29 Any withdrawals or xerox applications on books and magazines that might worry us , and we 'll have a straight printout of the names and addresses of all the applicants .
30 Her act comprises chart covers and songs by all the popular stars .
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