Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 3 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 4 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 5 | He er , is a sheep farmer and er , two or three years ago the Atherstone passed through his land and er ran amuck amongst his flock and he lost actually three in lamb ewes who drowned in a local river . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 8 | In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 12 | They have been successful … the crime rate in the city is down by five hundred offences a month … there are only one or two displays now a week … but they do still happen . |
| 13 | ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . ) |
| 14 | a hundred and fifty crackers just a letter addressed |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Farmers , whether on a large or small scale , faced new demands on their managerial abilities and technical skills almost every day — decisions and actions they usually had to make and take on their own . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Open full-bodied reds about two hours in advance and lighter ones about an hour beforehand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |
| 23 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 24 | In 1984 the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation , former owners of London 's Old Vic Theatre , deposited a portion of their archive material with the Theatre Collection and three years later the Governors of the Foundation decided that the entire archives , covering the history of the theatre and a complete documentation of the Old Vic company from 1944 to 1963 , should be housed in Bristol . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | No I was actually getting at a certain person that works for Trident that does n't think it 's worth extra hassle for a hundred and eighty pounds more a year . |
| 29 | At 11.30 a large-calibre shell exploded close by and fifteen minutes later a woman aged 60 was admitted to the hospital with an open fracture of the thigh . |
| 30 | ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’ |