Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a hundred and fifty crackers just a letter addressed |
| 2 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The national summarizes complex social and economic issues where the sources of fury are more obvious . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Open full-bodied reds about two hours in advance and lighter ones about an hour beforehand . |
| 14 | Police were still clearing the hotel and nearby homes when the bomb , abandoned in a Volvo car , partly exploded at 1.20am . |
| 15 | They guard the Everqueen as her court travels through Avelorn for the forest contains many dark and dangerous places where the hearts of the trees are rotten and great spiders lurk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An alternative to the questionnaire-type of worksheet , is the field booklet or pamphlet with pre-selected headings and blank spaces where the pupils can jot down their own notes on particular features , or make plans and annotated sketches . |
| 20 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | His hands were marked in red and white stripes where the laces had cut into his flesh . |
| 26 | These two ends of the parties , in the constituencies and in the Cabinet , are brought together at regional and national conferences where the activists meet and exchange views with their leaders in the company of their MPs . |
| 27 | Is that incomprehensible , even when we , and many Arabs when the sounds of war are not deafening them , recognise the vileness of his regime and the total horror of the invasion and occupation of Kuwait ? |
| 28 | The link between constructs 4 and 5 shows how an attribute such as the sense of stillness evokes an association with feelings of civilization in this particular picture . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In a class devoted to vaguely-worded comparisons between different world religions , or to ill-structured discussion of social and socio-political problems where no examination is taken , there may be a tendency to frivolity both in the preparation of the lessons and in the behaviour of the pupils . |