Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 2 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 3 | With a black eyepatch , pencil moustache and Viennese or Hungarian look of disdain he was pure Ruritanian musical comedy . |
| 4 | However , for every successful adoption of a new crop or new variety of crop it is certain that there were many more failed attempts at innovation , for the African physical environment places many difficulties in the path of farmers . |
| 5 | If you press even one or two types of flower you could possibly decorate a photograph of your holiday with a pressed flower mount ( see pp. 136–7 ) . |
| 6 | Whether it 's a relaxing or active type of holiday you like , there really is something for everyone at Club Europa . |
| 7 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 8 | Erm and that type of stand I mean it that in a very restricted area have n't you |
| 9 | Erm but erm we we 've gone through the games have n't we the marbles and that sort of thing we we played that |
| 10 | We 'll do so-and-so , and they walk away and leave it , and the adapters they say , they see the adapters as stick in the muds , ooh , they all do the same old thing , ooh , it 's boring and that sort of thing you see . |
| 11 | After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins . |
| 12 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 13 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 14 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 15 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 16 | You go for these people and ask for a board and this sort of thing it 's just , it just gets to be demeaning , the practice manager should have , should have |
| 17 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |
| 18 | and subtly-polished piece of jade I held |
| 19 | So there 's there 's lots of reasons to illustrate the point then and another thing of course it does is if it 's one you use on here it helps you remember you do n't have to have that written down because it 's there already produced if it 's a pre-prepared acetate as we call as we call it . |
| 20 | • From a medical , orthopaedic and ergonomic point of view it is unrivalled |
| 21 | In our speaking and listening programmes of study it is therefore recommended specifically as a learning medium . |
| 22 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 23 | If we value active and exploratory ways of learning we need to provide worthwhile , substantial , clear and well structured representations of ideas for children to explore . |
| 24 | This proposition may be illustrated by considering a situation in which an investor creates a portfolio consisting of share I and the market portfolio M. If the proportion invested in I is defined as W i ( in effect W i measures the excess demand for asset I when positive and excess supply of asset I when negative ; when W i is zero then the capital market is in equilibrium as there is neither excess demand nor excess supply of asset I ) and the proportion invested in M as ( ) , an infinite number of portfolios may be created where the weights for I may vary between +1and -1 . |
| 25 | I could n't believe it , and even after trying to zap away a monster of a hang-over with a can of Lucozade Sport and 4 cups of coffee I still ca n't believe it . |
| 26 | To determine , say , the incidence of deafness in men between 50 and 55 years of age we really need more of a cine film approach . |
| 27 | A particular feature of their performance is the marvellous precision and clockwork-like regularity of action they maintain , even in the most intricate figures . |
| 28 | A contemporary newspaper account stated that ‘ as the Abergavenny was laden with an immense quantity of porcelain ware and 27,000 ounces of silver she sank with unusual speed ’ . |
| 29 | In spite of most people perceiving themselves as planners , the survey reveals that in some of the most important and fundamental areas of life they have not made even the most minimal plans . |
| 30 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |