Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] [coord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 2 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
| 3 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 4 | Guinness manager Ken Morrison said : ‘ We are delighted to be helping stage this year 's tournament and it demonstrates our commitment to hockey in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | This carpet 's navy and it 's terrible , it shows everything . |
| 6 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 7 | The climatic conditions of Scotland and parts of Cumbria and Northumbria are particularly suitable for the production of healthy high quality seed potatoes required for the following year 's crop and it is in these areas that most of the seed potatoes are grown . |
| 8 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 9 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 10 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 11 | And then he added , ‘ I was talking to one of Big Joe 's bouncers and it was his opinion that she got wind of what was to happen , before they had time to give her a dose , likely . |
| 12 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 13 | He has been European golf 's generalissimo and it is appropriate that the decade opened to the sound of a Ballesteros devastation . |
| 14 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 15 | This was the long haired girls ' compromise but it became very common early 70s style for girls & for boys . |