Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Turks occupied the old Serbian and Bosnian kingdoms they acquired rich natural resources . |
| 2 | The people of Great Britain were governed , however tortuous and artificial the modalities , upon the authority of an elective institution which for historical and other reasons they were content to regard as representing them . |
| 3 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 4 | A special feature is the commentary in non-technical language on reasons for the different types of transaction and on the commercial and legal relationships they create . |
| 5 | No reason no reason why that should n't be I mean we 've we 've got what we use as a as a clip display thing that 's about six foot high and three panels you know but erm |
| 6 | In this selection of old and modern recipes I give precedence to those dishes made from the gooseberry , because green gooseberry fool is — to me at any rate — the most delicious as well as the most characteristic of all these simple , almost childlike , English dishes . |
| 7 | Come to our prayer group in July and find out which old and new friends we 'll be praying for then — and bring your own suggestions and concerns . |
| 8 | However , with their formidable array of entertaining and experienced batsmen they would look to have a distinct chance in two the one-day competitions . |
| 9 | Out have gone his recently acquired diplomat 's ways and in have been re-instated those more direct and bolder habits he learned on his journey to the higher reaches of Britain 's Conservative Party . |
| 10 | The damp and leaky shacks they inhabit have not changed much since the famous sepia photographs that sometimes decorate contemporary colour magazines were taken nearly a hundred years ago . |
| 11 | But in its more extended and generalized uses it can become remarkably similar to the ‘ informing spirit ’ of idealist cultural theories , and this can still be so when it offers ( but does not include or specify ) a ‘ last instance ’ referral to the economy or to the mode of production . |
| 12 | When I looked to films for information on sexual and romantic matters they were not much help either . |
| 13 | The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain . |
| 14 | When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 15 | Bevin remembered the mistakes of the years after 1918 when , he felt , the returning soldiers had been cheated of the social and economic reforms they had a right to expect . |
| 16 | Are there assumptions I can safely make about the language they understand , their level of awareness , the social and political groups they identify with ? |
| 17 | She argues that one 's feelings are a source of knowledge as well as being a result of understanding , and that for both social and biological reasons they are gender-related . |
| 18 | Non-standard dialects have the potential to be so developed , but for social and historical reasons they have not been . |
| 19 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 20 | From the complaints of British and French merchants it is clear that the colonial trade was ceasing to be a ‘ device by which was canalized , under royal control , the supply of goods from the rest of Europe ’ . |
| 21 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 22 | She was only eighteen and still quite unsophisticated but , after all the glossy and sophisticated women he had gone out with , that was part of her appeal . |
| 23 | Focusing on historical , cultural and contemporary landmarks it is an excellent introduction to one of the most fascinating cities in the world . |
| 24 | Considerable though the distance was across the metropolis , I sensed that the cultural and historical boundaries we traversed were of far greater significance . |
| 25 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 26 | We stepped off the plane into warm balmy air , happy to be back amongst the many English and Maltese friends we have made here . |
| 27 | To integrate individual and organisational objectives it is necessary to formulate organisational objectives which are understood by all members as well as compatible with their personal goals . |
| 28 | During the nineteenth century the majority of the cattle of northern France were dairy breeds , whereas in central and southern areas they were draught animals used for work on smallholdings . |
| 29 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 30 | From these amorphous and uncertain images he would create his own imaginings , superimposed and dominant , but essentially just as incomplete , just as distorted — as were the others by his own preconceptions , his own personality . |