Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time delay can have safety and/or economic consequences hence the need to accelerate the experts ' diagnosis and decision processes . |
| 2 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 3 | The shooting followed incidents over the last two or three weeks where the family 's other two cats have returned home and have been violently sick . |
| 4 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 5 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 6 | Since the book appeared in America , Rock has been surprised by the letters he 's received ‘ from people who live in the suburbs or small flats where the father is the king , where his armchair is the throne . |
| 7 | In a general index it may only be possible to distinguish between different meanings of the one homograph by using scope notes or qualifying terms wherever the term arises , and thus in some way replace the context that is normally absent in respect of index terms . |
| 8 | And the apostle Paul he gets open the scrolls and he starts in Genesis and he explains the plan of salvation , and he tells him what he 's got ta do , and he explains all the requirements , and about three or four hours later the man 's mind is completely blurred , he does n't understand a word of it , it 's gone way beyond him , course Paul does n't do that , he shoots back the answer straight away , believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved . |
| 9 | Each of the journeys has been chosen to visit one of more of the city 's parks or quiet areas where the visitor can pause and take stock . |
| 10 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 11 | But there can be practical difficulties in implementing this , particularly in small and medium-sized companies where the number of treasury transactions does not warrant employing several staff . |
| 12 | This occurs because most tropical rainforest biogeochemical cycles involve a tight intra-system relationship between the living biomass and the litter which contains the major reservoirs of nutrients ; this is in contrast to the biogeochemical cycles of temperate and boreal forests wherein the soil plays a much more significant role in nutrient recycling ( see Mannion 1986e for a more complete discussion of these relationships ) . |
| 13 | Similarly , the economic base is fragile and overdependent on specific local and possibly transient opportunities e.g. military bases , industrial and commercial initiatives e.g. the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish , and some Highlands and Islands Development Board sponsored enterprises e.g. fish processing factories . |
| 14 | I imagined conning Wavebreaker into Dartmouth , and taking the power skiff upriver to one of my old and favourite pubs where the ale had real taste instead of the limp-wristed chill of North American beers . |
| 15 | Inner-city areas are also often short staffed as a result of difficulties in recruiting staff to work in areas of heavy demand and high workloads where the work is particularly stressful . |
| 16 | We had taken 120 carp and 2 cats so the trip could hardly be deemed a ’ cat-astrophe ’ ( sorry but I could n't resist it ) when suddenly one of Rick 's rods was away . |
| 17 | Police were still clearing the hotel and nearby homes when the bomb , abandoned in a Volvo car , partly exploded at 1.20am . |
| 18 | A couple of hours and aching arms later the copper and brass was gleaming and sitting back to bask in satisfaction a voice soon broke the momentary pleasure . |
| 19 | Despite all this and more we decided that the asking price of £28,000 was about right and six months later the purchase was completed and we moved in . |
| 20 | We in the G M B know about our roots and we always will because of a very , another important word we 're accountable we 're accountable in the real world to real people with real issues and real problems not the hothouse world of some sections of the Parliamentary Labour Party . |
| 21 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |
| 22 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 23 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 24 | Which , come to think of it , is probably just as well , judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering , rude , opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloodstream outnumber their neurons , or whatever . |
| 25 | It makes the actual work of ferreting uncomfortable and those days when the rainfall is persistent are neither comfortable nor the most sporting . |
| 26 | ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’ |
| 27 | Support for nuclear was strongest among professional and managerial groups where the number in favour reached nearly 60 per-cent . |
| 28 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 29 | Four years later Andronikos unearthed the theatre in which Philip was assassinated in 336BC ; and five years later the tomb of Queen Eurydice , the grandmother of Alexander . |
| 30 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |