Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 2 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |
| 3 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 4 | Large bedrooms with two large beds accommodating the family for little or no extra cost means revenue from extra meals and drinks . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that this will mean compulsory Sunday work for little or no premium payment . |
| 6 | Such farms may allow for little or no daily contact with the workforce ( other than by two-way radios fitted to tractors ) , with day-to-day supervision remaining in the hands of managers and foremen . |
| 7 | Analysts believe it will pave the way for further cuts if the Conservatives retain power but fear a victory for Labour or a hung parliament could lead to higher interest rates . |
| 8 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 9 | Figures 5.12–5.14 show the differences between the actual population for 1971 and the predicted population for 1984 . |
| 10 | The Drive channel is governed by the usual Gain and Volume pots , for selecting the amount of overdrive in the sound , and for setting the level between that and the Normal channel 's output . |
| 11 | The difference between that and the existing situation is really more one of principle than practical effect . |
| 12 | Could you tell the difference between that and the leading article from the Sun ? |
| 13 | There 's a choice between that and the Royal Variety Performance , no choice at all is there ? |
| 14 | But surely the library staff did n't go through each and every national paper every day ? |
| 15 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 16 | Li Peng held " very fruitful " talks with President Hossain Mohammad Ershad during his visit to Bangladesh on Nov. 17-19 , signing four agreements and a note of exchange , including a long-term trade agreement for 1990-94 and a soft loan for Bangladesh worth about $40,000,000 . |
| 17 | Unemployment caused problems for some and the plummeting value of property , particularly in the South , has robbed up to two million owners of their savings . |
| 18 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 19 | Loss Adjusters generally outline the steps being taken , the reasons for this and the likely period involved . |
| 20 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 21 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 22 | Everything is beautifully monté at Court , very quiet and in excellent order ; I must say we are both much struck with the difference between this and the poor King 's ( Louis-Philippe 's ) time , when the noise , confusion and bustle were great . |
| 23 | The interior is covered with plasterboard which is then skimmed with plaster so that when the house is finished it is impossible to distinguish visually between this and the traditional structure where the load-bearing walls are solid brick or concrete blocks . |
| 24 | The parallel between this and the equivalent position today between Britain and Germany is of more than academic interest . |
| 25 | The difference between this and the total hardness then gives the magnesium content . |
| 26 | For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium . |
| 27 | This being so , there is some degree of arbitrariness in the division of issues between this and the previous chapter , and there will also necessarily be some overlap . |
| 28 | But it was not until after 1984 and the growing rapprochement and détente between the superpowers that WEU began to re-emerge as a body that could have real value . |
| 29 | After 1976 and a disastrous Lotus season ( a mere 29 points ) , Ronnie had thought he could do better at Tyrrell , though once again fate was to forestall his ambitions . |
| 30 | It is accepted that the corridor effect may well operate in the years immediately after 193 and the current rush of development is , of course , partly designed to offset the loss in employment caused by general economic decline and the likely transfer of business away from the Channel ports to the Tunnel . |