Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 2 | So , whilst it is possible to identify some broad directions of change it remains difficult to decide the precise implications . |
| 3 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 4 | Some 30 miles from Berlin he comtemplated hitch-hiking , but rejected it , trudging along and coming upon allotments with apple trees . |
| 5 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 6 | From the token half dozen kits from Malaysia we can also see not only the difference in basic shape , but also the lavishly conspicuous consumption of gold paint to provide an overall decoration of either flowers or clouds . |
| 7 | When Beveridge addressed the different primary causes of need he distinguished what he saw as the ‘ problem ’ of age from the needs created by disability : the former being concerned with retirement from work as a result of age and the latter concerning the inability of a person of working age to work as a result of illness or accident . |
| 8 | Marillion are now looking like the full-scale international merchants of pomp they 've always aimed at being . |
| 9 | One of the few circumstantial items of information we have suggests that if the Romans had not destroyed Carthage the Carthaginian intellectuals , like the Greek intellectuals , would have become pro-Roman . |
| 10 | as if the fancy and unnecessary packaging which manufacturers use for Christmas gifts is not enough , we then destroy a few more forests to encase them in acres and acres of wrapping paper . |
| 11 | Get a few more days after Easter I 'll be alright . |
| 12 | Whether you are in the middle of a relationship crisis or some anxiety-making moves at work it seems you must be prepared to move on . |
| 13 | Let me give you some other examples in case you feel there is some doubt because of course it 's one test . |
| 14 | And he had this two bags of sugar you know one that was and he was gon na light his pipe and he threw us and he could n't get off and it strangled him . |
| 15 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 16 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 17 | In most professions it was suicide to admit to being a homosexual , and in some macho jobs like bricklaying it was probably asking for a brick to be dropped upon one 's head . |
| 18 | In such rapid alternations of mood he rescues his hero from the risk of monotony in the way he has chosen to reveal his feelings . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the same in gel protection analysis performed on a putatively irrelevant , faster-migrating species [ absence of additional protected zones in DNase I footprinting , not arising from Jun degradation ( data not shown ) ] demonstrated its non-specific nature ( low affinity , highly electrostatic interaction of abundant proteins that are present in excess to binding-site DNA ) by displaying a cleavage pattern indistinguishable from that derived from the free probe . |
| 20 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 21 | Before speculating on the value of such huge quantities of information it is important to see this as part of larger systems of business information and decision taking . |
| 22 | Over the eight square feet of hole he had nailed a blanket . |
| 23 | In view of these possible sources of error it is surprising that extrapolated profiles ever yield results of any value . |
| 24 | When we examine a specific case from these different points of view it becomes obvious that they may all contribute to our understanding . |
| 25 | Edward overworked in his lonely digs — ‘ the first time I ever truly worked ’ — and in these early letters to Hooton he discovered new qualities in his nature . |
| 26 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 27 | He did n't deserve it , yet she could n't stop the cold sick waves of fear she felt at what might happen to him . |
| 28 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 29 | AFTER three warm-up races over hurdles he started his chasing career with a third at Carlisle on Monday . |
| 30 | Much of the three thousand tonnes of charcoal he imports every year comes from mangrove swamps near the Indonesian coast . |