Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 2 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 3 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 4 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 5 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 6 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 7 | They formed in 1980 as a purely instrumental jazz-funk band and their excellent playing always kept them interesting as a live band : I know ‘ they can really play their instruments ’ is a boring credential , but it can count for something . |
| 8 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 9 | Otherwise they 're going to have another sleepless night , and we need them fresh for the next stage . ’ |
| 10 | So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit . |
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| 12 | Why am I cast as the scarlet woman all the time ? ’ |
| 13 | Am I aware of the voice-leading possibilities for chords I regularly use ? |
| 14 | Nor was I ready for the inconsistent treatment of the subject . |
| 15 | Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last . |
| 16 | The fist techniques of taekwondo involve lunge punches , reverse punches , back fists and hammer fists — all of them similar to the basic karate punches described in the previous chapter . |
| 17 | A short training session should have them proficient with a commercial model . |
| 18 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 19 | The Bond collection contains 350 paintings , most of them Australian of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist vintage , Mr Cross said . |
| 20 | These strands do not continue throughout the levels because it is not possible to specify further measurable stages of development in these abilities , and it would be cumbersome to repeat them unchanged throughout the remaining seven levels . |
| 21 | The ceiling carvings had been removed , perhaps because Colonel Hoggatt had thought them inappropriate to a working laboratory , but the scars of the desecration remained . |
| 22 | In a small club in Hamilton , Ontario , he jammed with them onstage for a few nights . |
| 23 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 24 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 25 | Then I undressed her , and dressed her up in her own clothes , she acquiescent as a little child , talking all the time about the snowdrops , and how the days were beginning to draw out — and everything except people , and the circumstances in which we found ourselves . |
| 26 | Are you interested in a plumbed-in water filter or would a table-top model suit you better ? |
| 27 | ‘ Are you interested in the actual fishing that used to go on from Lowestoft ? |
| 28 | Are you interested in the ante-natal care provided for expectant mothers in the West Midlands ? |
| 29 | He was riding a lion , she side-saddle on a black gryphon , and they were fighting . |
| 30 | Were you involved in the general strike itself much ? |