Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word that coins the same message . |
| 2 | For historic reasons the infant baptism figure most accurately represents the ‘ external constituency ’ of the Church of England , that is , those who are favourably disposed , but most of whom do not bother to attend . |
| 3 | CITY share strategists believe that if Labour forms the next government , or leads a coalition government in a hung Parliament , investment sentiment will swing away from companies linked to the British economy in favour of those making the bulk of their profits overseas . |
| 4 | Sort of three pounds for a couple of little , little pairs of knickers and that and that 's a lot when you think they when she first starts she 's gon na be getting through seven or eight pairs a day . |
| 5 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |
| 6 | It is estimated that at least 10,000 children and their parents are involved in the trauma of accidental poisonings every year . |
| 7 | Tousle-haired Roy Greenwood played three or four games for the Palace as an amateur in October 1954 , but was immediately invited to sign professional forms a month later . |
| 8 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 9 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 10 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 11 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 12 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 13 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 14 | We squat on the ground , eating our lunch as we go , and work as fast as we can for eleven hours every day . |
| 15 | It seems likely that in very primitive multicellular forms the main mode of communication was chemical — a substance released by one cell , say signalling for the cell to contract , could fairly quickly diffuse to other cells , ensuring that they too contracted . |
| 16 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
| 17 | Will we see women working on check out tills being sacked because they can not keep a smile screwed on to their faces for eight hours every day ? |
| 18 | But we do spend an average of eight hours every day of our lives with our mouths and noses pressed against pillows full of the mite dung … ‘ |
| 19 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 20 | For the next 35 years , almost without a break , Asimov produced 90 words a minute , eight hours a day , seven days a week , first on a typewriter and later on a word processor , and he invariably wrote three books at once . |
| 21 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 22 | Removing the supports of these state agencies — the welfare net , subsidized public services — would face people with a ‘ reality test ’ : that if you do n't sweep floors eight hours a day , you wo n't have any money to live on . |
| 23 | They represent acceptable exposure levels based on eight hours a day for five days a week . |
| 24 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 25 | I now leave the lights on for eight hours a day . |
| 26 | Apart from his own studies , Tetsu teaches English and mathematics to children ; he had taught eight hours a week over the past year to finance this , his first trip outside his homeland . |
| 27 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 28 | And , according to the Nihon Keizai Simbun , the semi-public TV network NHK has been running HDTV broadcasts eight hours a day on a test basis since last year . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the electric fireplace which the American public watches an average of six to eight hours a day ’ . |
| 30 | The Manila stockmarket is at an all-time high ; yet electricity power-cuts in the country last an average of eight hours a day . |