Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ye can sing like Judy Garland Ye can whistle like Lauren Bacall Yir lovelier than Liz-beth Taylor But still yir worth — ( Interrupted by the sleazy pinstriped figure of Mr King ) |
| 2 | I consider the idea that the issue should be decided by a referendum nothing short of bizarre . |
| 3 | The pressure to remodel old pubs is of course nothing new . |
| 4 | There is of course nothing new in finding new uses : Malmesbury Abbey after the Reformation became Britain 's first clothing factory . |
| 5 | There is of course nothing new in that . |
| 6 | Ruling indirectly was of course nothing new for the British . |
| 7 | There is of course nothing new in the battle by memoir . |
| 8 | The value of the supportive stimuli derived from shared group experience is of course nothing new . |
| 9 | There was of course nothing new in a patriarchal family structure based on the subordination of women and children . |
| 10 | Vegetarianism is of course nothing new … famous veggies have included Leonardo da Vinci , Wordsworth … |
| 11 | The ultimate target of this frantic quest on the part of all the quality papers to conjure up the ideal-average readership — ‘ young , upwardly mobile … leisure and DIY- orientated ’ ( The Independent ) ‘ … a readership of the future with a strong sense of the past ’ ( The Guardian ) — is of course nothing other than that favoured figment of the marketing imagination : the yuppie . |
| 12 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 13 | The equipment list reads like this … plumber 's piping … garden netting … safetey pins … an ice hockey stick , and a unicycle.Put them all together , and you get this week 's Friday Feature |
| 14 | In such contests everyone concerned was fully aware that there was much more at stake than an annual office . |
| 15 | We have expropriation — it is the economic revolution against the only-just ex-ruling classes ; during the period of primitive capitalist accumulation there is neither revolution nor fight against the old master , but the destruction of peasants ; in that case there is the creation of a necessary class pole ; in our case nothing similar . |
| 16 | I guessed it was part of your plot to steer me right away from Rob — in case I corrupt him . ’ |
| 17 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 18 | For that reason I suppose when I first heard about the money my first reaction was to say ‘ No . |
| 19 | I thought , it 's an insult my flipping intelligence ! |
| 20 | Chairman the erm proposals in the what was the submitted plan in reference seventy nine read er Policy three , Subject to the provisions of Policies I four I eight and I nine there will be a general presumption against development in open countryside except for the purposes of agricultural policy and recreation and other uses appropriate to a countryside location . |
| 21 | Policies I five and I twelve provide for land for employment in the period up to two thousand and six , while in the T policies , the opportunity is taken to update road schemes in the county . |
| 22 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 23 | ( Gav looked defensive for all of a micro-second , a concession my lacerated self-respect fell upon with all the pathetic desperation of a humiliatingly defeated politician pointing out that well , things can only get better . ) |
| 24 | This result means that New Northern will compete in Division I next year . |
| 25 | ‘ When I went to the Slade my sole intention was to become art master at some comfortable school . |
| 26 | We also have present my right hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , South ( Sir W. Clark ) , so there is powerful representation in the House tonight in the interests of adult education in Croydon . |
| 27 | But for the present my principal interest is in meanings qua explicitly posited topics of discourse . |
| 28 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 29 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 30 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |