Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the reports some political worthies spew out the same old phrases they parroted last time the natives grew restless somewhere . |
| 2 | ‘ Western financial institutions operate a divide and rule policy : they strike sweetheart deals with individual governments which benefit Third World elites even though they harm the poor . |
| 3 | Australian officials who attended last week 's meeting between Crone 's team and state department analysts said American experts are unperturbed . |
| 4 | Arable farmers who applied last year for oilseed rape subsidy will already be familiar with the way the map should be completed . |
| 5 | Second language learning : — an examination of current language teaching procedures ; some linguistic , social and psychological features which determine second language learning ; an enquiry into the socio-linguistic consequences of languages in contact ; aspects of bilingual behaviour . |
| 6 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 7 | Although the figure of the earth-mother pales in time ( receiving a last fitful refulgence in the West in 1950 when she was proclaimed bodily assumed into heaven by Pope Pius XII ) , she nevertheless remained a permanent part of the polytheistic pantheons which evolved first of all during the Neolithic period . |
| 8 | And I do n't think you can do that , I think we 've got too many good players which proved second half ; the passion was super second half . |
| 9 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 10 | He also repeats gay allegations he made last April against Prince Andrew 's younger brother Edward on a controversial American TV show . |
| 11 | ‘ See the priests ? ’ he said , indicating the clergymen in their flowing richly coloured robes who came first . |
| 12 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 13 | Gareth Jenkins , Llanelli coach , is anxious that the younger Quinnell should not be rushed despite the impressive strides he made last year . |
| 14 | PAKISTAN has deported 300 Afghan Sikhs who fled last month 's faction fighting in Kabul . |
| 15 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ We ought to go straight to meet Cobalt but there are other things I want first . ’ |
| 17 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 18 | Clearly worried by growing opposition to reforms that have drastically eroded living standards , Mr Yeltsin reshuffled his government last week in an attempt to shield some of the younger , more radical ministers he appointed last autumn from the wrath of the Congress . |
| 19 | Now what about these other campaigns we mentioned last time , did we decide what , or did we leave it till this meeting cos there was India and there was Women 's |
| 20 | In recent years some local authorities which introduced first and middle schools following Plowden have reverted to this more traditional structure . |
| 21 | Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out . |
| 22 | As sitting tenants we get first refusal , but he must know by next Monday whether we 're interested . " |
| 23 | His breath smelt of the black pickled olives she had first tasted on the voyage from Dingle . |