Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrative elites form part of a cohesive , co-ordinated and self-conscious vanguard of social or business elites where their real interests and loyalties lie . |
| 2 | Retiring public servants now routinely move into jobs where their previous contacts and responsibilities can enrich themselves and their employers . |
| 3 | Messages prints out to both dot matrix and laser , where its four-up format and the use of coloured paper stock can deliver the normal message slips , whilst the original data resides safely on the PC . |
| 4 | But there was fierce hostility to the appointment within the Labour ranks ; Thomas instead accepted the Colonial Office , where his instinctive patriotism and robust utterances were more appreciated . |
| 5 | His first transfer to Tottenham split two spells with Millwall before he moved to the Dell , where his no-nonsense approach and disciplinary problems earned him a hard-man reputation . |
| 6 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 7 | Dunn , in fact , made his debut in an excellent 3–0 win at Brighton on 9 September , where his fearless display and accurate clearances were a feature of the game . |
| 8 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 9 | 11.20 : Left for Annexe where our part-time pupil and his class teacher are located . |
| 10 | There is a flat at the top of our house where our younger son and his wife had lived until Mark was a year old , so there was accommodation for them : they need n't be homeless even if they were penniless ! |
| 11 | A wilderness is a place of contrast , where our own rules and values for living can be challenged , where we can learn something about humility and the inventive resilience of unmanaged nature . |
| 12 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 13 | ‘ At 39 he 's a bit older than my other boyfriends and past the stage of running around . |
| 14 | Eventually I realised that a weapon could be more effective than my 11-year-old fists and depleted teeth , so I smashed an empty milk bottle over his head . |
| 15 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 16 | Although her black garments and veil are a sure omen of death , the Black Baroness 's charming laugh and exquisitely beautiful face ensure she always traps her victim . |
| 17 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 18 | Although its great hall and courtyard buildings have crumbled , its linked tower houses make an impressive sight from the A85 towards Crieff , and the interior still contains fine tempera painted ceilings , plasterwork and moulded fireplaces . |
| 19 | The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art . |
| 20 | Most of the friars became parish priests , and nuns received pensions , although they were probably more vulnerable to the change in fortune than their male counterparts and there were no church posts for them . |
| 21 | They also believe their reviews to be less thorough than their female colleagues and believe more strongly that reviews require more help and advice from outsiders . |
| 22 | One can reasonably say that British opera-goers in 1945 knew a lot fewer works than their modern counterparts and knew them , by and large , in less good and faithful performances . |
| 23 | The church is using state money rather than their own money and it was felt that the church had become another agency of the state in this regard . |
| 24 | Egyptians usually spoke badly of anywhere other than their own village and district . |
| 25 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |
| 26 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 27 | The milk creates a more balanced bacterial environment in the gut , and children of six or seven who were breastfed as babies are less likely to succumb to urinary infections than their bottlefed brothers and sisters . |
| 28 | The opening movement proceeds at a headlong tempo , and who but Cortot could drive the triplet ascents and descents after the brief second subject 's expansion with such a total disregard for anything other than their rhythmic force and inflammatory life ? |
| 29 | In rural areas community psychiatric nurses are more autonomous than their urban counterparts and all psychiatric staff have to travel to see patients . |
| 30 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |