Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 2 | I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur . |
| 3 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 4 | ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’ |
| 5 | Five thousand francs a kilo they were fetching today , and a week later in London shops 12s. 6d. each for little tiny ones . |
| 6 | Fanny will have fifty pounds for wedding clothes , and I 'll give her five hundred pounds the day she marries you . ’ |
| 7 | For anybody in business the two DTP packages we have , NeoPaint and Envision Publisher , are the most professional packages in the shareware market today and at less than one hundred pounds the pair they are the biggest bargain this year . |
| 8 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 9 | And they 're open seven days a week you say . |
| 10 | One of the main problems at Clumber is erosion ( another is subsidence from coal mining ) , and with up to 1.5 million visitors a year it 's easy to see why . |
| 11 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 12 | For thirty Belgian francs a month he lodged with a pedlar by the name of van der Haegen who lived at Paturages , not far from Mons ( the house was demolished in the early 1960s to allow for road widening ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course I would pay two hundred pounds — two thousand pounds every penny I have — to stop you shooting me . |
| 14 | Now , yes I mean i i in , in terms of two thousand calories a day it , it s it seems to be six hundred and fifty , seven hundred calories , er seven hundred , right , now th th there are those who argue the hundred and fifty is starvation level . |
| 15 | Thirty nine days a year I 'll be having . |
| 16 | We 've got four hundred four hundred words a day we calculated we 've got ta do |
| 17 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 18 | Simplest of all is your own letter based on the advice of your lawyers , stating in formal legal terms the advice you have received and the action you intend to take if you do not receive a response . |