Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council leader , Owen Taylor , said : ‘ We are being used as a scapegoat and that distresses me . |
| 2 | one hour and eleven minutes it said on there |
| 3 | Aside from those who were involved in intellectual and political movements it was an open question how far mental health experts would be received into the bosom of the target population . |
| 4 | Are there assumptions I can safely make about the language they understand , their level of awareness , the social and political groups they identify with ? |
| 5 | The result , however , would be the same : the strength of the principle of interpretation , in effect denying the statute any application at all , would reflect the scale of the affront to the moral and political values we accept as fundamental … |
| 6 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 7 | Before he left , Chagall twisted a coil of stout wire around the door handle twenty-five times , certain that the one hundred and fifty paintings he had left inside would be secure . |
| 8 | If you go and buy a a T V for a hundred and fifty pounds they 'd say thank you , a hundred and fifty pounds , plus VAT at a hundred per cent is another hundred and fifty to go to the government |
| 9 | Still , for two hundred and fifty pounds he had no room for complaint . |
| 10 | Lot number twenty two twenty two , the gilt-bronze and enamel model showing at a hundred and fifty pounds one fifty I 'm offered , thank you , one hundred and fifty pounds I 've got , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , ninety two hundred and twenty , forty , sixty two eighty , three hundred three hundred pounds against you at three hundred , anybody else ? |
| 11 | Past silver birches and Scots pines we walked to reach the small hide at the edge of Little Sea . |
| 12 | ( Bridget , aged sixteen ) I feel personally that the most difficult thing to cope with is not the physical and emotional changes I am going through but the attitudes of people around me . |
| 13 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 14 | The current problems of the NEA are not simply , or even mainly , the intellectual , aesthetic and administrative problems I have referred to earlier . |
| 15 | Doing this with the English and Tamil examples we will find that : Note that in Tamil is a variant of the /t/ phoneme , but a separate phoneme in English . |
| 16 | There are so many rubber-neckers and bloody souvenir-hunters you would n't believe . |
| 17 | The British , Commonwealth and European titles he has won since then were all taken while fighting in London . |
| 18 | What is important , however , is that when statistics on incidence and prevalence enter the public and professional domains we should be clear exactly what behaviour is being referred to and what is included in the operational definition of abuse . |
| 19 | Turning to the private letters , diaries and pornography of aristocrats and professional men we can see how their sexual desire was structured around notions of private debauchery , lust and licentiousness . |
| 20 | For both environmental and economic reasons we should be taking every possible step to reduce road traffic . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | As party spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs he recently showed his political maturity by asserting that the Lloyd 's crisis ‘ gave anxiety for the national interest ’ — a view not shared by many of his colleagues . |
| 25 | The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain . |
| 26 | Surrounded by extensive and enclosed grounds it is perfect for children who can play in complete freedom while their elders relax on the lawns that gently slope down to an attractive swimming pool . |
| 27 | Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials . |
| 28 | In telephone calls and private meetings they are saying : ‘ Do n't do anything to rock the boat . |
| 29 | The serenos receive a small salary from the shopkeepers and private houses they keep an eye on , but it is considered proper to give them a tip each time they open a door for one . |
| 30 | While he was away was the longest fifteen months and eight days I ever spent . |