Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Marillion are now looking like the full-scale international merchants of pomp they 've always aimed at being . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the eight square feet of hole he had nailed a blanket . |
| 12 | In view of these possible sources of error it is surprising that extrapolated profiles ever yield results of any value . |
| 13 | When we examine a specific case from these different points of view it becomes obvious that they may all contribute to our understanding . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Much of the three thousand tonnes of charcoal he imports every year comes from mangrove swamps near the Indonesian coast . |
| 18 | It is difficult at any time to represent a large body of one 's fellows ; in these critical days of reconstruction it is harder than ever . |
| 19 | It makes a great difference which of these two forms of conventionalism we are to consider . |
| 20 | From a methodological point of view , Bortoni-Ricardo 's work is particularly interesting , because in developing these two types of index it extends the application of the network variable beyond an analysis of small closeknit groups to an analysis of the extent to which individuals have detached themselves from such groups . |
| 21 | In these other bodies of law we see more influence of foreign law than elsewhere in our legal system . |
| 22 | Having perused the readers ads in the treasured final pages of Guitarist it would help if the advertiser indicated his area next to his area code , and that they did not ask overambitious prices . |
| 23 | Count how many different types of butterfly you can find . |
| 24 | However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered . |
| 25 | Later on , you can guide their play by , say , suggesting that they see how many little cups of water it takes to full the big jug , or by getting them to find out how long it takes to fill a floating cup with water until it sinks . |
| 26 | Old-fashioned mathematics you used to have to do calculations of how many square feet of linoleum you |
| 27 | Oh you are , oh right erm I 'm searching for your prize list I know I had one there all these bits of paper you have to bring in every day . |
| 28 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the rise of ‘ a new kind of economy … threatening to many , demanding rapid changes in work , life-style and habits , hurls large populations terrified of the future into spasms of diehard reaction … instead of the much-touted end of ideology , we may , in both global and domestic affairs , see a multiplicity of new ideologies spring up … instead of President Bush 's famous thousand points of light we may well face a thousand fires of fury . ’ |
| 30 | Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him . |