Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 2 | There are four new cassette decks , two of them twin-transport units taking two cassettes ( KX- W262 at £199.95 and KX-W362 at £249.95 ) and two conventional using two-motor transports with Dolby B , C and Hx Pro and optional remote control ( KX-260 at £149.95 and KX-360 at £179.95 ) . |
| 3 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 4 | No particular doctrine is intended and if my expressed conclusions attract adverse comment , or my suggestions are ridiculed , it is sufficient that discussion and consideration took place with the aim of helping the many unfortunate people of our country who are at present without hope . |
| 5 | My French colleagues had considerable reservations about the agenda ICAO had circulated to member States and wished to have certain other matters discussed , including the definition of an accident . |
| 6 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
| 7 | Forgive me if I omit intimate personal details included in the American list — such as whether Y-fronts will be in or out — but I have failed in my mental attempts to undress either man . |
| 8 | I 'd originally gone to Czechoslovakia to photograph pollution but I 'm so glad I was pursuaded by my Czechoslovak friends to spend three days out of my precious two weeks walking in the Slovenský Raj . |
| 9 | Thus my twelve eggs have inversive symmetry . |
| 10 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
| 11 | Until recently I should have rejected the premise that my earliest years represented some sort of attack upon my individuality and insisted that , on the contrary , I was surrounded with kindness and loving care — as indeed I was . |
| 12 | My own experiences echo these difficulties . |
| 13 | He was the one to approach me — none of my other employees expressed that kind of interest in the project . ’ |
| 14 | Somehow my two feet had different ideas about direction . |
| 15 | My two grandchildren arrive this afternoon with their nanny . |
| 16 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 17 | Actors and actresses , who spend all their professional lives creating fictional atmospheres , do not stint themselves when real opportunities come along . |
| 18 | Not the basement from which they 'd come , with its shattered windows giving further access to this horror … not the service/access corridor with its hideous wall-bound parody of Farley Peters … but the door next to the basement door marked : ‘ Stairs ’ . |
| 19 | Their working contexts impose certain limits on what they are able to do ; for example , on how many journalists they can employ and on how much news space they have on the paper . |
| 20 | These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects . |
| 21 | King Hussein of Jordan yesterday promised a referendum on a plan to liberalise political life following a parliamentary election in which Islamic groups made striking gains . |
| 22 | By concentrating public attention on the training , employability and motivation of the unemployed , the Government hope to divert attention both from poverty and personal hardship experienced by claimants and away from the failure of their economic policies to create enough jobs . |
| 23 | Known as ArtsLink , the programme has two components : its Collaborative Projects support American individuals or groups of up to five people seeking to collaborate with counterparts in Eastern Europe on projects in the visual , performing and media arts , architecture and design or literature . |
| 24 | The trend now is for UK-based companies to have their European subsidiaries release key personnel for intensive training in English in the UK to help improve their all-round performance once they return home . |
| 25 | Using lean production , the authors found the Japanese required just over half the engineering time , half the number of people , and only two-thirds the lead time as their European rivals to produce similar cars . |
| 26 | Simultaneous with the emergence of the swept wing shape and its cambered sails stretched either side of a central spine , there were other innovations which arrived during the same development period . |
| 27 | They were highly regarded by the farmers , both for their local knowledge and their strenuous efforts to have this knowledge understood and used by the MAFF scientists in Whitehall . |
| 28 | There are three options : A league in which eight teams play each other once or twice depending on whether ‘ home and away ’ is selection ; a cup which is an eight-team knockout ; and a season which gives both league and cup competitions . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages . |
| 30 | I am persuaded by the majority of legal opinion , which suggests that Britain , her people and her political leaders retain ultimate control over their own destiny . |