Example sentences of "[noun pl] in a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put four mince pies in a little basket she 'd decorated earlier when she made the other table decorations , put on her coat and was out of the back door in a flash . |
| 2 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 3 | When kept as individuals in a mixed community they can bully other smaller species but they are in the main more peaceable than the average marine fish . |
| 4 | In addition , if a property owner is manufacturing and selling goods in a competitive market he will be obliged to produce any given level of output of those goods at the lowest cost possible . |
| 5 | He at least , unlike his superiors in ideology in Moscow had the courage to revise his stereotyped class views in a second book he published in 1924 . |
| 6 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 7 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 8 | Assessment of pupils ' understanding of certain concepts is more validly based on their use of strategies than listing which items in a written test they answer correctly or incorrectly . |
| 9 | In addition to the nationality of the children included in the standardisation sample , it is also useful to know whereabouts in a particular country they live , their socioeconomic status and the extent to which the sample was screened for children with linguistic , sensory or learning difficulties ( McCauley and Swisher 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 11 | As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear . |