Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 2 | Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits : |
| 3 | Their report shows that you 're most likely to fall ill visiting Egypt , Gambia , Turkey and Latin America , while 18 per cent of Spanish holiday-makers suffer from some kind of lurgy . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Margined and non-margined contracts : Specific rules relate to margined contracts . |
| 5 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 6 | It follows that in order to understand the efficacy of political parties or the ways in which political forms relate to everyday experience , account must be taken of the appropriate political discourses . |
| 7 | It is that there are no unambiguous criteria with which to judge the contribution that different administrative activities make to some final goal or set of values . |
| 8 | Whole populations of some European birds winter in particular British estuaries . |
| 9 | In most African countries , government involvement in , and even supervision of , the press may not rest on such ideological precepts : sound pragmatic and economic reasons exist for that involvement . |
| 10 | In so called active coeliac disease , malabsorption , and nutritional deficiences range from profound to minimal ; clinically silent coeliac disease is being increasingly recognised — for example , in family studies . |
| 11 | There was a tapping at the window now , light fingers , child 's fingers , poor weak fingers numb with cold and tired and trembling with hunger . |
| 12 | Our grateful thanks go to all who participated in any way and helped us to have such an enjoyable and satisfying evening . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 14 | Private schools spend on average £56 per pupil per year on equipment . |
| 15 | SCOTS HOMES SELL LIKE HOT CAKES |
| 16 | That ‘ manhood ’ was something which served the fifteenth-century kings of France well , when Scottish aristocrats and soldiers of fortune went to fight in their armies against the English ; from their number , Charles VII created the prestigious Scots guard in 1446 . |
| 17 | The Latin word for apple is ‘ pomum ’ and many European words stem from this linguistic root . |
| 18 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 19 | In Alpine shops look for wooden cooking utensils , walking sticks and Loden capes . |
| 20 | But while dilution of a national curriculum to the lowest common denominator of the poor , isolated rural school is clearly ludicrous , the reality must be faced that poor rural schools exist in large numbers and that a curriculum policy needs to be framed with them in mind — which it very rarely is . |
| 21 | Professional safeguards apply to those who appear for the prosecution and the defence . |
| 22 | Instead of ‘ getting on with the job ’ , as the horsemen say , a colt or stallion may respond to the mare with fear , aggression , or playfulness — behaviour which normal animals display towards strange or novel objects . |
| 23 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 24 | Commercial shipments start in one year 's time . |
| 25 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 26 | Symbols and echoes of celebrated canvases vie with original designs and lush flourishes to create an aesthete 's garden of earthly delights . |
| 27 | Experimentation has begun to yield results , instrumental groups flourish in some churches , and the standards of playing and performance are certainly higher than they were even five years ago . |
| 28 | Respondents to the Social Attitudes Survey in 1984 were asked : In general would you say that people should obey the law without exception , or are there exceptional occasions on which people should follow their consciences even if it means breaking the law ? |
| 29 | We can examine whether the Social Attitudes Survey in 1984 finds the same pattern ; we might expect , on the basis of this reasoning , that the more educated people would be less likely to say that they would break an unjust law . |
| 30 | Since fewer than ten English harpsichords survive from this period it was therefore something of a rarity , and quite obviously a highly prized and valuable acquisition . |