Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speed of playing equipment can vary considerably ; where possible use your own tape recorder but make sure you have enough volume without distortion . |
| 2 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 3 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 4 | nervosa which essentially means , er loss of body weight or fifteen percent your normal preoccupation with weight , and loss of your periods for three months and a morbid fear of gaining weight . |
| 5 | Social distress — a restricted , inadequate or disturbed individual whose social performance is in some way leading to personal difficulties . |
| 6 | In turn , members of the innovatory networks identified individual managers or particular functions whose overt opposition to , or lack of enthusiasm for the change strategy seriously hindered its progress . |
| 7 | The transition may also consist of a link verb such as be or seem , or any verb whose main function is simply to link the foundation-laying and core-constituting elements of a clause . |
| 8 | If you have lived in a European Community country or any country whose social security system is linked to Britain 's by a reciprocal agreements , contributions or residence there may be counted towards your pension depending on the country concerned . |
| 9 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 10 | That in probability the next doubling of the people of England will be in about 600 years to come , or by the year of our Lord 2300 ; at which time it will have eleven millions of people ; but , that the next doubling after that , will not be ( in all probability ) in less than 12 or 1300 years more , or by the year of our Lord 3500 or 3600 ; at which time the kingdom will have 22 millions of souls , or four times its present number , in case the world should last so long , |
| 11 | Because their tour of duty usually lasted no more than three or four years their primary loyalties were thought to be to their careers in the Home Office at large . |
| 12 | Early in the century especially , there was the real danger of being compared with Aphra Behn or Delarivi — re Manley or other writers whose sexual conduct had caused scandal . |
| 13 | And one tends to conclude that all attempts to be poetic in some manner or other defeat their own end ; whereas an intentness on the quality of the emotion to be conveyed makes for poetry . |
| 14 | A joint application allows you to borrow 3½ times the higher annual salary plus a sum equivalent to the lower salary ; or 2½ times your joint income . |
| 15 | ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ by H.G. Wells is about the invention of a food which causes living things to grow to six or seven times their ordinary size . |
| 16 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 17 | That was why , apart from a mild hope that this time his wretched daughter would get herself killed , he did not devote his considerable powers to learning more about the three travellers galloping desperately out of his realm . |
| 18 | With this award the Programme will be expanded to more than three times its present size and become one of the University 's most important academic developments . |
| 19 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 20 | And one Chemical Sales Manager said he increased his company profit on his next deal by more than three times his own salary ! |
| 21 | A rifle owned by Wild West heroine Annie Oakley has fetched £84,000 more than five times its expected price at auction . |
| 22 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 23 | He regarded Darwin 's second mode of sexual selection — female choice of particular males — as unimportant on the grounds that any consequences which female choice might have would be annulled by natural selection — unless females selected the fittest males , in which case the results of sexual and natural selection would be inseparable . |
| 24 | Broader in scope than any predecessor its special strength is that it deals not only with the manufacturing industry but the social conditions in which it was set . |
| 25 | WALES now has a record 11.2 million sheep — more than four times its human population — a new census reveals . |
| 26 | In the court 's majority ( 7-1 ) opinion , however , Justice Harry A. Blackmun wrote that although the punitive damages were more than four times the amount given to compensate Haslip for her injuries , and more than 200 times her out-of-pocket expenses , the award did " not cross the line into the area of constitutional impropriety " . |
| 27 | For more than two hours their quiet breathing was the only sound in the small room . |
| 28 | Note that for a book written by more than two people your textual reference can normally just give the first of the names , followed by " et al. " |
| 29 | Is he aware that next week my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell , South ( Dr. Bray ) will visit the United States to look at the latest technological developments in steel production — thin slab casting ? |
| 30 | Green displayed more than most writers his total capacity for visual appreciation . |