Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 2 | Better than the knobbly knees one at any rate . |
| 3 | This investigation takes a single case of such innovation and subjects it to intensive study . |
| 4 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 5 | Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause . |
| 7 | They are also the very wishes which in total welfare states lead to what we may justly term the externalization of paranoia : for in these totalitarian societies the delusions of the paranoiac become actual , tangible realities . |
| 8 | The second is to act as a filter to ensure that only those cases which for some reason need to proceed to a formal process of adjudication do so . |
| 9 | Large numbers of villages , however , have very complex plans which at first sight defy description and explanation , both on the ground and on the maps . |
| 10 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 11 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 12 | In a development with far-reaching implications , USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin on Aug. 1 agreed jointly to sponsor a commission of experts which within one month would " draft a concept for the transition to a market economy " . |
| 13 | As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job . |
| 14 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people |
| 15 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people , stretching from well north of the arctic circle to the Mediterranean . |
| 16 | His solution is plausible , and essentially traditional — a suite of seven tiny movements which as serious concert music might just seem too relentlessly pleasant , but which as a Glyndebourne musical appetizer would no doubt blend very agreeably with garden scents , summer evening breezes and pre-performance small-talk . |
| 17 | The deployment of a weapon system involves a threat that that system will be used in certain circumstances which to some extent can be deduced from the characteristics of the weapon system itself . |
| 18 | He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter . |
| 19 | ‘ Matters naught to this bugga , I 'm afraid , ’ grunts Panama . |
| 20 | Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house . |
| 21 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 22 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 23 | Within a week , Matilda had finished Great Expectations which in that edition contained four hundred pages and eleven pages . |
| 24 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 25 | This may be the case for some manual workers , though by no means all , but there are large numbers of people on low incomes who for one reason or another could be hurt by Labour 's plans . |
| 26 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 27 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 28 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 29 | Banks have a dual role , as agents for their customers who buy and sell foreign exchange , and as dealers themselves in foreign exchange . |
| 30 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |