Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that matter I stand where my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) stood on 24 May 1971 . |
| 2 | There are exceptional circumstances , such as my total castration or my taking vows as a monk , where my only residual fitness is that which accrues to me through my assistances to relatives . |
| 3 | We talked about the Dublin Review , where my Basic English article had been published , and referred to a characteristically splenetic article by Montgomery Belgion which had also appeared in that journal . |
| 4 | Despite their lack of formal education and training , they can afford to travel to overseas matches where their crude moral values are reflected in ‘ nationalistic aggression ’ towards foreign fans . |
| 5 | But , as Spenser 's discussion of the Old English going native in A View of the Present State of Ireland reveals , the destructive interior elements when placed in an environment where their exterior corresponding elements are present may gain possession of a potentially good individual or group and bring about degeneracy . |
| 6 | At matches he had to be watched like a hawk in case he wriggled out of his headcollar , and set off for the tea tent , where his doleful yellow face and black-ringed eyes could coax sandwiches and cake out of the most stony-hearted waitress . |
| 7 | You mean you do n't approve of someone wanting to find out where his only remaining relative is ? ’ |
| 8 | Cantona , the one-time enfante terrible of French football , initially went on loan to Elland Road , where his inventive attacking play — mostly as substitute — gave Leeds a powerful bonus on their run in to the title . |
| 9 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 10 | As it was , our retreat turned out to be much more than that — it was a warm experience where we shared thoughts and feelings with others , and where our static everyday lives were challenged . |
| 11 | Within 3 days of his successor 's arrival , we have a Dept. meeting where our new Chief Superintendent outlines his plans . |
| 12 | In that last summer term we spent a lot of time outdoors in the convent garden , in that part of it where our noisy unhallowed feet might tread . |
| 13 | ‘ My aunt lives in Hastings , so my bloody overprotective parents thought it would be OK for me to come to Sussex . |
| 14 | ‘ You know , of course , that something far more monstrous than my adolescent Arabian Nights was being imagined in the young mind of twentieth-century Europe . |
| 15 | I can do the work OK , they 're giving me really good grades , which is more than my dear dumb sister . |
| 16 | ( Lift-off in an Alphajet was less brutal than my ham-handed early attempts on the TBM 700 . ) |
| 17 | It must be pretty old , it 's right down in the chalk and yellower than my old Roman ring . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You fought off the effects of the anaesthetic faster than my medical orderly thought possible . ’ |
| 19 | Although my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing ( Mr. Higgins ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham ( Sir P. Hordern ) mentioned in interventions yesterday a situation in my county of West Sussex which is replicated in many other local authority areas , there should be an opportunity — within order — to raise matters of concern and to obtain assurances from Ministers about them . |
| 20 | No actress alive better captures the ferocious pathos of the little heartbreak writ large , and although her immaculate comic technique sustains whole passages of visual lunacy , she has in addition the much rarer theatrical gift of being able to transmit emotion in its purest form . |
| 21 | One interpretation of this is that as the nationalized industries move closer to some form of privatization so their published financial information appears to become closer and closer to the commercial practice of publishing only that which is required , and no more . |
| 22 | It may be that some couples cohabit initially because they are uncertain about the strength of their relationship so their subsequent marital breakdown could be attributed to these underlying doubts , rather than the ‘ destructive ’ experience of cohabitation . |
| 23 | For by the end of the week they had produced 29 warm leads — 14 more than their usual monthly target . |
| 24 | Mrs Jean Broke-Smith , the Lucie Clayton principal , who has been coaching debs for the show for 20 years , described the problem : ‘ Even though these girls are much more self-assured than their equivalent 20 years ago they still need to be told to push their hips and pelvis forward and to keep their bottoms tucked in , ’ she said . |
| 25 | The Carthusians lived — and still live — a more solitary contemplative life than their other Benedictine brethren , but retain certain traditional and communal monastic observances . |
| 26 | Recognised for their excellence of design , British stamps are now more varied and colourful than their tiny black predecessor . |
| 27 | These violations of laws of purity and holiness are justified in terms of more fundamental principles , concern for the inner ethical motivations of the person , rather than their external bodily state , and respect for all persons , regardless of gender or ethnicity . |
| 28 | Swindon and Peterborough probably have more commuters going to them than their total everyday passenger traffic in the steam age . |
| 29 | The Scots had compensated for the lack of indigenous wealth by developing a tradition , over the previous century and a half , of regarding themselves as far more powerful , more important , more interesting than their remote geographic position and comparative poverty actually entitled them to be . |
| 30 | The durability of the red metal had been recognized centuries before and copper and brass domestic ware was , as the 16th Century copper smelters were at pains to point out , far better than their brittle cast-iron counterparts . |