Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Randi describes their methods in detail , except where some professional magicians ' secret would otherwise be exposed . |
| 2 | I WAS horrified to see that another 20,000 miners ' jobs are at risk . |
| 3 | I find that many new writers ' stories and poems seem to occur in a spatial and social vacuum : the writer launches straight into an account of action , ideas , thoughts , feelings , without giving any clear sense of where all this is taking place . |
| 4 | There 's a sort of sense that all those places are kind of unreal places , are n't they ? |
| 5 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 6 | Young Stuart Duncan is back in action after his career was put on hold following a serious knee injury last Christmas and Malone are still hoping that former Irish Schools ' star Scott Kirkpatrick remains at home rather than taking up an option to return to the States . |
| 7 | His daughter wrote , in a biography even more adulatory than most Victorian daughters ' biographies of their fathers , ‘ He loved conversing with all manner of persons , but I do think he preferred a parson to any other . |
| 8 | The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 9 | The world beyond Europe began to be opened up with voyages to India , China and America , and this transformed men 's horizons in a way fully as dramatic as space travel in our own time . |
| 10 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 11 | But the Phoenix King had lent Tyrion the services of a unit of White Lions and these bold warriors ' knowledge of their homeland was to prove invaluable . |
| 12 | James Caunce , Mayor of St Helens , said : ‘ I joined the march because my father and grandfather were both miners and we need to fight to preserve Parkside and all those men 's jobs . |
| 13 | Much of this and several other candidates ' arguments are not convincing because their remarks reveal contradictory opinions and a lack of principles . |
| 14 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |
| 15 | When this old men 's ideology starts to be transmitted into literature , and from literature into popular writings , and then into the press especially the gutter press and the mass media then it begins slowly to form the people . |
| 16 | To those ladies who were responsible for dealing with this charitable effort , she would offer as much as five shillings for a bundle of what appeared to them as less attractive articles , especially if they were food-stained , as some old gentlemen 's coats often were . |
| 17 | However , when these two years ' figures are compared with those of previous years , it becomes obvious that the crackdown was introduced as a result of a particularly bad year for accidents . |