Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We look forward to a generous settlement in a few weeks ' time when he might deal with the London Regional Transport anomaly which is afflicting us as Members representing outer London . |
| 2 | The imposition of a slightly lighter sentence in a few cases would seem to be a small price to pay for the conviction of more guilty offenders . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll bring you some tea in a few minutes , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 5 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 6 | Er , we need to also think about erm , er , B types , because B types may not be being assertive , and I shall talk about assertive behaviour in a few moments . |
| 7 | By 1764 the estate was held by the fifth Duke of Devonshire , whose wife , Georgina , was Earl Spencer 's daughter , and she became the popular hostess in the many entertainments for which Chiswick House became famous . |
| 8 | What permitted the concentration of foreign trade in a few ports was the complementing of overseas trade by coastal trade . |
| 9 | ‘ An Army lorry is due along this road in a few minutes . |
| 10 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 11 | I 'll get you some food in a few minutes , but first let's have your shoe and stocking off . ’ |
| 12 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 13 | The horse 's anxiety has to be kept below boiling point to avoid a continual problem in the same circumstances ; and shoeing horses does recur — every six or eight weeks ! |
| 14 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 15 | This month the Peter Tillou gallery ( which opened at 39 Duke Street in 1989 and exhibited at the Grosvenor House Fair in 1992 ) inaugurates an additional gallery in the former premises of Leggatt Bros. ( 17 Duke Street ) . |
| 16 | However , is he aware that the Royal Navy is proposing to hold a similar exercise in the same waters on the day immediately following that anniversary ? |
| 17 | A saying that conveys much meaning in a few words ; short poem ending in a witty turn of thought . |
| 18 | One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow . |
| 19 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs disputed the claim on the ground that the defendant did not reside with his deceased brother in the same premises throughout the requisite 12-month period and brought an action in the county court for possession . |
| 21 | I shall deal with that point in a few moments . |
| 22 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 23 | Is it likely that there are other pupils who may turn up in that room in a few minutes ? |
| 24 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 25 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 26 | These figures suggest that employers , at least with the present education system , largely feel that basic knowledge in a few subjects is all that they find useful for their purpose . |
| 27 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Our plane landed and was immediately surrounded by children from the school , although the arrival of aircraft is no great novelty in the many villages in the region that have an airstrip but no access by road . |
| 29 | As the Association 's general secretary , David played a major role in the many developments which took place during the period . |
| 30 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |