Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] [noun] they " in BNC.
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1 | If police were treated as ordinary public service employees they could demand the right to strike and come under all the other Health and Safety regulations applying to other jobs . |
2 | If , in a stretch of conversational discourse , the participants involved can be independently known to have potential discourse subjects such as ‘ the Queen ’ , ‘ the Pope ’ , or even ‘ the King of Siam ’ , within their shared presupposition pool , but do not mention the individuals , so identified , in their conversation , it is surely unnecessary to refer to those individuals in the analysis of that particular discourse fragment They are , in our terms , not ‘ activated ’ . |
3 | On Thursday and Friday nights and Sunday lunchtimes you can enjoy Malaysian or Indonesian curries , perhaps a Cambodian-style casserole of sweet potatoes , pumpkins and yams with fresh coriander , or the very popular macrobiotic platter , an assortment of tastes sometimes including arame , one of 10 different sea vegetables they prepare . |
4 | By calculating the PV of various alternative investment projects they could then be ranked against each other . |
5 | F. When firms in the UK and the EEC want to expand their businesses with extra new branch factories they consider carefully the special advantages which there are in Northern Ireland . |
6 | Apart from that fucking business card they have no forensic evidence ; no weapons , bloodstained clothes or even minutiae like hairs or fibres to link me with any of the attacks . |
7 | A delegation of Indian software producers who came to Britain last year received only three responses from 190 British computer firms they visited . |
8 | In all previous stratification systems they have been able to divert blame from themselves for their lowly status by providing reasons for their failure . |
9 | In those early oil years they were easy marks and millions , perhaps billions , were lost in the pockets of the sleazy where the pounds and dollars grew in a muddy climate . |
10 | Saltburn are confident that in new professional Mukund Parmar they have a player who will get them lots of runs and wickets . |
11 | In their ‘ kitchen ’ ( a sink , a hot plate and a kettle , with no proper cooking or storage facilities ) , they point proudly to some Tory Party mugs they had biked over from Smith Square after the election . |
12 | On this meagre subsistence allowance they die like flies ’ . |
13 | There 's a limit to what can be done on those little caravan stoves they provide us with . ’ |
14 | In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this . |
15 | For example , if it is costly for firms to hire more labour or adjust their capital stock it will be optimal for them to spread out over time their response to any relative price signals they receive . |
16 | To prevent the firm 's objectivity being compromised , they must immediately notify the firm of their intention to go , they must leave the audit team , and the firm must undertake a review and consultation in relation to any significant audit judgments they have made . |
17 | Then they set up resourcing arrangements , just as they would do for any other business operation they undertook . |
18 | WHEN THE Romans built Ermine Street , their great road from the south coast to the Humber , they deliberately aligned it close to the ancient university town of Stamford , then called Doorebriff At this strategic river crossing they established a town called Durobrivae , from which the Saxon word ‘ Welland ’ later derived , meaning ‘ raging , boiling , bubbling . |
19 | Thus at this imaginary point A they give up , turn around , and go home . |
20 | At many large computer centres they are literally costed in money ; or each user may be allotted a ration of time , measured in seconds , and a ration of space , measured in ‘ words ’ . |