Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice .
2 After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal .
3 And they used to take about six loads a day you see .
4 This ensures that food is always cooked evenly across the full width of the vitreous enamelled grill-pan , so you can be sure of outstanding results every time you cook .
5 It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership .
6 The other worked as a ‘ runner ’ or delivery man , for a large dealer and was paid out in heroin to the tune of 2 grams a day which he began to consume .
7 In serious cases results can be produced more quickly , but in the case of organic pollutions the analysis itself takes five days .
8 Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing .
9 So there are plenty of ways of disposing of little amounts Every bit you dispose of from your capital every hundred pounds saves forty pounds in tax , if you 're at that sort of level .
10 In all other cases outside of those exceptions the order which prescribes unpleasant consequences , unless a person does a particular act , must make clear the precise time within which the act is to be done ( RSC Ord 42 , r 2(1) ) .
11 Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven .
12 We have estimated the size of the denominator population as an average of 31.4 births a year which , projected to a 41 year period ( 1950–90 ) , gives 1287 births .
13 ( iv ) In the case of external objects the observations he makes may fall short of what he claims to be the case .
14 Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth .
15 They have the worst of both worlds a government who wants to attack their pension rights and an employer willing to do the government 's bidding .
16 The common wall between these forms a membrane which is the equivalent of an eardrum .
17 For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher .
18 ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush .
19 For these boats a sail which allows them to compete more evenly under handicap rules has obvious advantages .
20 Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising .
21 For many writers the phenomena which are under discussion here are part of more global tendencies .
22 For many Australians the desert which covers much of their country means a vast emptiness solitude and the struggle to survive in hostile surroundings .
23 The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office .
24 Under these circumstances the process we know to be distributed across all of the input/output cell connections appears to be localized in one neuron .
25 Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill .
26 The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up .
27 The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up .
28 Like Dexter , she had had enough of grappling with the bundles of facts she had accumulated , facts that did not slot together to form a coherent pattern ; but dissolved and reformed into new patterns every time she touched them .
29 In residential homes a couple who want to live together and express themselves sexually have in the past received ridicule if not hostility , instead of facilitated support .
30 And in some cases the assumptions you have asked us to cost are vulnerable to counter attack from the Opposition .
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