Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 2 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 3 | What she wanted from Luke Hunter was not a few months ' — or even a few years ' — sensual companionship . |
| 4 | The marginal utility school of economics , developed simultaneously in Britain , Austria and France around 1870 , was formally elegant and sophisticated , but unquestionably considerably narrower than the old ‘ political economy ’ ( or even the recalcitrant Germans ' ‘ historical school of economics ’ ) , and to this extent a less realistic approach to economic problems . |
| 5 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 6 | If he had consulted a Green candidate , he would have been told that even the other parties ' policies are not tough enough in theory let alone practice . |
| 7 | First the opposing air forces were brought into play and then the two sides ' arsenals of short-and medium-range projectiles , conventional artillery and surface/surface missiles . |
| 8 | Despite this Jon Newsome 's lovely new wife thinks he 's wonderful but apparently the other players ' wives think she 's a bit of a bimbo . |
| 9 | But easily the best Lions ' movement of the match came when Tony Underwood and Gibbs made breaks to allow Clement to go on a weaving run for a converted try . |
| 10 | But certainly the main co-ordinators er |
| 11 | After only a few minutes ' discussion , Hill and Branson agreed a transfer of the Sex Pistols ' contract from EMI to Virgin , conditional , of course , on the agreement of the group 's manager , Malcolm McLaren . |
| 12 | If you leave after only a few months ' experience here , believe me , you will find it hard to get a good job elsewhere . |