Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan searched the rooms , but found only some soiled children 's clothing and their excreta . |
| 2 | She wanted the room to be tidy before they went to sleep as , after only some nine hours ' occupation , she felt a proprietorial interest in ‘ La Felicità ’ and wanted it to look its best always . |
| 3 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 4 | Congress , which has frustrated so many earlier reformers ' ambitions , will heed that sign . |
| 5 | The Board has my warm support in its task of gathering together all Catholic women 's organisations and listening to their varied voices . |
| 6 | It uses outside expertise , but more especially numerous local individuals ' skills . |
| 7 | In 1987the Soviet Union exchanged 3,583.7 million rubles ' worth of goods with Asia ( excluding Vietnam , China , North Korea , Mongolia , Afghanistan and Japan ) , 1,399.8 million rubles ' worth with Africa and only 969.4 million rubles ' worth with Latin America ( Foreign Trade ( Moscow ) , no. 1 , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | In one case it was held that because such disparity would result from the closure by an LEA of the only two single-sex boys ' schools in its area , whilst the authority permitted its two girls ' schools to remain , there was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 9 | It is a scurrilous romp through the poet HC Artmann 's mildly subversive modern children 's songs , which seek out the clay feet of contemporary heroes like Batman and Superman , as well as invoking more traditional horrors . |
| 10 | There are still few general men 's magazines in the UK , though male readers dominate specialist sectors like motoring and sports magazines , so it can be difficult to get wide coverage of an exclusive male audience , should you want to , without putting your ad into a rather specialized editorial context . |
| 11 | Other soldiers sent letters with similar sentiments direct to the Stümer , which , with its circulation during the war estimated at still over 300,000 , continued as before to publish a selection of the most repulsively anti Jewish readers ' letters . |
| 12 | In the ensuing wide-ranging discussion a lot of attention was given to child-care problems but these were rapidly relegated to being a symptom of something far more fundamental affecting women 's progression to the board : attitude . |
| 13 | Alison MacKenzie , second year student of Maths and Computing at Stirling University played hooker for the Scottish national team in the first ever full international women 's rugby match against Ireland . |
| 14 | A very high proportion of nearly all industrialized countries ' aid is tied to their own goods or personnel . |
| 15 | In 1921 , with a governor 's scholarship , he started electrical and telephony engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science and Technology , entering on the second year of the course to help his mother 's finances , and consequently was compelled to sit the far harsher external students ' examination for the first-class honours B.Sc. |
| 16 | If he and Zoe had half each , it would give him about forty thousand pounds ' worth of capital . |
| 17 | When the Liberals in 1911 again proposed to grant Irish Home Rule , Sir Edward Carson , later Lord Carson , led the mainly Protestant six counties ' resistance to being a minority in a mainly Catholic Ireland — the objection still made today . |
| 18 | But the biggest jump of all will be seeking out existing Regional Railways ' lines which can also accommodate LRT services . |
| 19 | Yeah well you see John 's got about twenty five years ' experience with computers on me . |
| 20 | The merlin establishes its territory up in the heather-covered hill areas , and searches out suitable hooded crows ' nests from the year before which it will appropriate for its own brood . |
| 21 | And there are not even that many men 's faces . |
| 22 | On the other hand , even such seasonal workers ' commitment to work , needs and interests are likely to be different from those of regular workers ; this despite the fact that their pay or access to fringe benefits can be inferior to those of regular workers . |
| 23 | how that nimble-fingered ladies ' man |
| 24 | Meanwhile Yorkshire 's liquidity has held up and should guarantee the county at least another seven years ' existence , time enough for the new management and its overseas players to wave their collective wands . |
| 25 | Mr Chairman , er , I 'd like to thank you for those nice words of introduction but I am particularly delighted as I am a lifelong member of the G M B , of almost thirty five years ' standing , due to my employment with British Gas and my long membership with the Labour Party . |
| 26 | It is therefore recommended that all employees , particularly those in a data-processing capacity , be required to take at least two consecutive weeks ' holiday , ideally including a month-end or quarter-end . |
| 27 | A MAJOR conference looking at how proposed new children 's legislation will affect foster carers , opened in Co Antrim today . |
| 28 | At least seven private members ' bills on the subject have been presented by both Conservative and Labour MPs . |
| 29 | Over 100 million men 's suits and many other items of clothing are dry-cleaned using ICI solvents . |
| 30 | The police worked over fourteen million hours ' overtime , at an estimated cost of £140 million ( Wallington , 1985 : 152 ) . |