Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 2 | When Beveridge addressed the different primary causes of need he distinguished what he saw as the ‘ problem ’ of age from the needs created by disability : the former being concerned with retirement from work as a result of age and the latter concerning the inability of a person of working age to work as a result of illness or accident . |
| 3 | Marillion are now looking like the full-scale international merchants of pomp they 've always aimed at being . |
| 4 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 5 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 6 | He did n't deserve it , yet she could n't stop the cold sick waves of fear she felt at what might happen to him . |
| 7 | Having perused the readers ads in the treasured final pages of Guitarist it would help if the advertiser indicated his area next to his area code , and that they did not ask overambitious prices . |
| 8 | However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the rise of ‘ a new kind of economy … threatening to many , demanding rapid changes in work , life-style and habits , hurls large populations terrified of the future into spasms of diehard reaction … instead of the much-touted end of ideology , we may , in both global and domestic affairs , see a multiplicity of new ideologies spring up … instead of President Bush 's famous thousand points of light we may well face a thousand fires of fury . ’ |
| 10 | Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him . |
| 11 | They can nae do it now with the rolled bays Great rolled bales of hay they have now . |
| 12 | In addition to these improvements and the continuing competitive rates of Autocover it is timely to remind members of the other benefits of our own Motor Insurance Scheme which are summarised below : — |
| 13 | The only other types of credit they use more than very occasionally are trading checks or tallymen , and HP . |