Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 2 | fifty eight is worse age for breast cancer |
| 3 | The Netherlands , Britain and many other countries have switched their preferences to the big Holstein and the rate of the changeover is even more phenomenal than the old Friesian 's remarkable spread to dominance in so many countries during the present century . |
| 4 | The Illustrations Collection , or ‘ cuttings file ’ , contains some 250,000 items , most of which are botanical illustrations , with some 20,000 being original artworks in need of conservation . |
| 5 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 6 | The 1830s and early 1840s were successful years at the School . |
| 7 | The early 1970s were one period of ‘ policy success ’ in which the gap between ‘ North ’ and ‘ South ’ in employment change was almost closed ( see measures for 1971–78 at Table 5.4 ) . |
| 8 | In the most contaminated region ( in the southeast near the Ukrainian border ) the incidence in 1991 and early 1992 was 80 cases per million children per year . |
| 9 | The early 1960s were turbulent times for blacks as the reverberations from the spate of immigrant intimidations following the Notting Hill and Nottingham episodes had barely subsided . |
| 10 | The early 1960S to the early 1980S were two decades of IBM dominance . |
| 11 | Edward Gillespie says that they wanted to give their racegoers something extra and more excitement … and when times are hard this is one way of getting more owners into the sport |
| 12 | The Intention of the British er of the Railways Act of nineteen ninety three was that jurisdiction of the British Transport Police should be unaffected , but we are aware that there may be some doubt now as to the precise extent of the powers which British Transport Poli Police may have beyond the Rail Track property . |
| 13 | In 1989 , there were 347 thousand marriages in England and Wales , and of these 219,000 were first marriages for both husband and wife . |
| 14 | These ten were leading nurserymen in the London area around 1720 and Miller , writing to Blair the following year , acknowledged their help . |
| 15 | it come from , Ah three fours are twelve X to the three minus the power right oh and this one fits too very nicely . |
| 16 | Four of these seven were Conservative MPs at the date of the appointment , one had been a Conservative MP , and another had twice been an unsuccessful Conservative candidate . |
| 17 | She was sure this was some trick of Zuleika 's to get her off-balance , slow down her reaction time . |
| 18 | All this is bad news for students of mountain history and first ascensionists . |
| 19 | The upshot of all this is more problems for hard-stretched environmental departments — and more court cases that are decided unsatisfactorily , more on the whims of magistrates rather than on concise technical criteria . |
| 20 | All this is wonderful testament to the life 's designers and constructors . |
| 21 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 22 | All this was precious time within which to advance the British nuclear programme . |
| 23 | All this was bad news for Charles , despite his own hopeful move towards Attigny . |
| 24 | All three are inherent components of the natural earth surface processes that occur in arid and semi-arid regions but have been exacerbated by human activity . |
| 25 | Whether they are already leaders or aspire to more senior positions or are any part of those steadily developing collegial teams which are necessary to manage the diversity of educational change , then breadth of knowledge , a political awareness of the wider field of debate , the capacity to stand back , criticize and to argue to an acceptable and workable end , all these are essential parts of the professional 's equipment . |
| 26 | Whether you grow vegetables , summer bedding or an informal patch of wildflowers , you should compost or destroy dead leaves , exhausted plants , vegetable stumps and thinnings , for all these are favourite haunts of many harmful insects . |
| 27 | All these are important matters for you to take into account if you are not to become embroiled in their , probably very old , business together . |
| 28 | All these are degenerative diseases of the central nervous system . |
| 29 | Nature and God are identified , and are conceived as an infinite reality which exists both as an all comprehensive mind and as an infinitely extended physical system , and in other ways unknown to us , all these being different aspects of one and the same single reality . |
| 30 | Quality , safety , reliability , accuracy — all four are essential features of navigation . |