Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morocco countered Polisario 's estimate of 75 Moroccan deaths and 75 wounded with a claim that it had lost only five soldiers in comparison with 37 deaths among the guerrillas . |
| 2 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 3 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 4 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 5 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 6 | 53 said the assistant manager , who had earlier been asked to put our 50 chairs , and who then had to find another three in a panic when some extra people arrived . |
| 7 | I have a mind , why ca n't I use it to some good in a way that will give me satisfaction if nothing else ? |
| 8 | A passer-by told officers he saw the 16-year-old bundled into a car as she went to the shops . |
| 9 | As another example of his skill at miniaturisation , he displays his portable 15-cm ( 6-inch ) reflecting telescope , which weighs a mere two-thirds of a kilogram and can fold flat to go in his jacket pocket or between his clothes in a suitcase . |
| 10 | Between the curving cross-spars , the sail adopts a vee form not unlike that on a Malay or triangular kite . |
| 11 | If you want something plain and simple such as a bra and brief set , go for a luxurious fabric . |
| 12 | To his dad , they went back to Berlin in nineteen seventy for a visit cos his mum was in a home which |
| 13 | Dealing with the threat of logical security breaches poses much more of a problem because it demands a thorough understanding of the computer systems and the workings of the business they support . |
| 14 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 15 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 16 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 17 | In the middle of this strange house 's celebrations she felt much more of an outsider than she had done sitting on her own in her room . |
| 18 | It has long been known that skilled smallholders , owning their own plots of land , can produce very much more from an acre than large-scale farmers with labourers who can not possibly have the same dedication . |
| 19 | While Hogarth is much less of a presence than his aqueous predecessor , his arrival has caused Marillion to bind closer together as a unit . |
| 20 | External hacking poses much less of a threat than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff . |
| 21 | If we did that , there would be much less of a problem and we would not be in such deep water with the European Commission . |
| 22 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 23 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 24 | And it 's that extra .242199 of a day that causes all the trouble ! |
| 25 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 26 | If you find yourself in this situation it is important to decide realistically how much you can do and to mark out these easy between a parent and child , it is not likely to improve at this stage . |
| 27 | erm from yesterday er I think meself personally I 'm very methodical sort of person and I felt what was most important the revelations meself was thought patterns and the use of most structured structured in a presentation and also the importance I could n't believe how that using them made such a difference actually to yourself when you 're standing there and the audience participation erm thought patterns well I 've always used that was just a revelation I mean I 've never |
| 28 | Yeah cos erm these I find these lovely for a tea or something when I want to just |
| 29 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 30 | There may well be an area where the interest at stake in an application for a licence is considerably more important than that involved in a forfeiture or failure to renew in a different context . |