Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
2 | Giardini , though generous with other promoters ' money ( he was responsible for doubling the fees paid to orchestral players ) , was unscrupulous and devious as an impresario . |
3 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
4 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |
5 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
6 | These are seen in the repetitions , checks , and expansions which are noted as so prominent in some parents ' speech by Brown ( Brown , Cazden and Bellugi , 1969 ) and Cross ( 1977 ) . |
7 | At five o'clock we wandered back ; after all , it might get dark in fifteen days ' time . |
8 | You can have all or part of your savings back in cash whenever you like , subject to seven days ' notice . |
9 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
10 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
11 | They are often the most difficult to assess since their experience usually lies outside that of social workers , who may be suspicious of such applicants ' knowledge but uneasy about rejecting their apparently confident experience . |
12 | The group claims that an application written to the interfaces will be able to run unchanged over many vendors ' SNA communications products under the Microsoft operating systems . |
13 | ‘ That issue a couple of months ago was far too soft on transnational corporations ' involvement with the Latin American military . ’ |
14 | It is a basic rule that governments never get involved with other nations ' politics . |
15 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
16 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
17 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment should become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp on Friday duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
18 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment was to become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
19 | Such clubs were vulnerable to untrustworthy treasurers ' misappropriation of funds and gave members none of the benefits of an interest bearing fund . |
20 | Both have contracts with the Company terminable at 3 years ' notice . |
21 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
22 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
23 | Experts say the pollution in North Bohemia is due to 40 years ' emphasis on heavy industry under communist rule . |
24 | Rupert 's surviving on 5 hours ' sleep a night . |
25 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
26 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
27 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
28 | These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research . |
29 | KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION , Tooting Broadway 's finest , who issue their ‘ When In Heaven ’ / ‘ Glittery Dust ’ 45 on One Little Indian in two weeks ' time , play |
30 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |