Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you would feel probably the best mechanism would be the appointment of somebody who is given that responsibility and solely that responsibility of reporting and looking after the interest of the deferred pensioners . |
| 2 | It was the first ‘ peasant ’ sport , an activity which required little expense and even less understanding , yet still boasted appreciable aesthetics . |
| 3 | There are two acts here the creation of a community , a body politic , by the social contract and then that community establishes a government as a separate act and I shall emphasise the significance of that shortly . |
| 4 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 5 | Quantitative scores may be more appropriate for research purposes , for evaluating the effectiveness of different forms of therapy , for screening large numbers of children , and for identifying whether or not a particular child is experiencing difficulties which warrant further assessment and possibly some form of placement or remediation . |
| 6 | Nurses of the same grade may possess different skills and thus each ward/department must identify its specific skill requirements It may be necessary to employ nurses who have undergone further training or gained additional skills through experience . |
| 7 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 8 | Occasionally users still require their data on magnetic tape and so this facility remains available . |
| 9 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |
| 10 | Up an abrupt conical escarpment dotted with modern but pleasant villas was an olive-scattered plateau and as much tranquillity as you could wish for . |
| 11 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 12 | We all want a speedier process and therefore fewer remand prisoners . |
| 13 | The telephone made a different sound and then another voice said , ‘ Empire Theatre , good morning . ’ |
| 14 | There was plenty of food , fresh water and as much freedom of movement as was possible in such circumstances . |
| 15 | TONIGHT : With almost clear skies and very little wind , the temperature will fall sharply this evening . |
| 16 | The fact that one Health Authority felt unable to fund this operation and yet another Health Authority felt able to provide the necessary monies does call into question whether the Patients ' Charter does actually work . |
| 17 | But you have , and in some style and quite some time before I arrived . |
| 18 | Tomorrow there will be a thousand different decisions and even more profit . |
| 19 | Further ideas illustrated on the right of Figure 5.5 include a working square that delivery vans can enter ( f ) , the ‘ death of the traffic light forests ’ ie. less traffic-orientated paraphernalia and thus more town ( g ) , and the construction of an island which decorates and gives form , yet allows a smooth flow of slowed-down traffic ( h ) . |
| 20 | ONCE UPON a time The Face was the style bible not of gits in fake fur-trimmed parkas and yups looking for new big ties , but of crazy over-made-up early '80s youth , for whom mum 's old curtains and too much eye-liner signified SEX and REVOLUTION . |
| 21 | ( The rank of Feldwebel in the German forces nominally corresponded to the British rank of sergeant , but a Feldwebel enjoyed greater prestige than a British sergeant and slightly more responsibility . ) |
| 22 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 23 | But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit . |
| 24 | We have a basket where we keep all her toys and chewy things and she empties that out and brings everything from where that is and puts them all on this rug and consequently this rug I think she she has adopted as hers . |
| 25 | Alice held her flamingo 's body under her arm , but the flamingo turned its long neck first this way and then that way . |
| 26 | A witness without first hand knowledge of the events … can not be challenged in cross-examination in this way and so such evidence … is generally excluded . ’ |
| 27 | To what extent this was the result of Jill 's campaign will probably never be known , but it may be that it coincided with and reinforced a growing feeling in the Foreign Office and elsewhere that intransigence was no longer in Britain 's interests . |
| 28 | Obviously it 'll not be done for the launch but he 's made a smart job of it it looks really smart done it in yellow , erm and really later on this week I 'm just tidying up , I 've got to go and see F I B just to make sure everything 's in place with them in the mounted section and really this time a week tomorrow it 'll be launched . |
| 29 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 30 | window and I sort of pinged the cat 's tray , you know , if I shut the door and walked back in and hid the paint on the side , and on a couple of occasions he was painting that window and suddenly this cat appeared outside |