Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the women times the hours , it takes six times eight women hours to do this . |
| 2 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 3 | But the authorities take all complaints seriously , which leads some constables to fear ‘ the flippin' solicitor 's letter ’ ( FN 5/10/87 , p. 16 ) , although one middleranking officer once expressed considerable sympathy for the post — tion some police constables find themselves in as a result of being hedged ( as they are in Northern Ireland 's more unusual position as a divided society ) between authorities who are exceedingly sensitive to complaints against the police and a public which has sections eager to complain , even in Protestant-dominated Easton . |
| 4 | In practice few UPS bands are quite so starkly simple ; we usually see the vestiges of a progression . |
| 5 | Chapter 7 details losses of habitats of nature conservation interest — particularly upland rough grasslands and moorlands and the threat to broadleaved woodland — in the UK uplands , providing data on the scale and increasing pace of such losses . |
| 6 | Typical cost headings for contracts might be : Directly employed labour Labour-only sub-contractors Materials Own stores Nominated suppliers Labour and material sub-contractors Nominated sub-contractors Hired plant Own plant Own transport Special expenses In the case of development projects administered and constructed by the builder a similar breakdown could be used . |
| 7 | North-East 100 metres hurdles champion Jocelyn Kirby , who won the silver medal in last week 's Northern Championships , ran a superbly controlled race to set a Division Five record of 14.2 . |
| 8 | Salomon Brothers yesterday placed with City institutions the US chunk of British Airways ' £320m convertible bonds rights issue . |
| 9 | Farther down Nerudova Street , No. 18/213 , the House at St John Nepomuk still sports fragments of the original sgraffiato dated 1566 and just visible now under the crumbling Rococo stucco . |
| 10 | He claimed that the allied forces had achieved " general air superiority " over Iraq and Kuwait ; that enemy nuclear weapons reactors were " finished " ; that Iraqi aircraft were able to operate from only five of the country 's 66 airfields ; and that Iraqi air defence radar had been reduced by 95 per cent . |
| 11 | Polar soils and their main characteristics are summarized in Table 3.1 , and Figure 3.2 outlines stages in their development . |
| 12 | Fusilli al Forno alla Rebecca 6 ounces cannelini beans 12 ounces fusilli 8 ounces frozen peas 500ml good tomato sauce 500ml thinnish bechamel 3 ounces Pecorino or mature cheddar , grated Soak the beans and cook them in water or chicken stock until just soft ; drain them and heat gently in the tomato sauce , Preheat the oven to 400 ( gas mark 6 ) and butter a shallow casserole or gratin dish . |
| 13 | CBM has been consolidating its headquarters operation this year in Plymouth , on the heels of last September 's government-assisted acquisition of the former Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank . |
| 14 | On June 10 , 1990 , the South Korean electronics company , Samsung , acknowledged that its planned sale of TDX digital telecommunications exchanges to the Soviet Union violated COCOM regulations , although it rejected the possibility of cancelling the contract worth US$12,000 million . |
| 15 | Large developments by Beazer , Wimpey , Berkeley , Crest , Durkan , Prowting , Trencherwood , Salthorp and Penta have been successfully sold or are currently being marketed by Adkin New Homes branches spread over Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | If the FA do act , then Wright could also face a fine , while if left to Arsenal the matter is likely to cost Wright two weeks wages — around £5,000 . |
| 17 | Royal Automobile Club 24 hours members only |
| 18 | Calvert , a former 1500 metres runner , made the English schools 400 metres semi-finals last year . |
| 19 | Of course individual humanities disciplines make use of more than one of these types of computer study : the student of literary style will make statistical studies of the frequency of the lexical strings and grammatical features identified in his chosen text ; the historian may have occasion to search through and analyse the texts of his primary sources in machine-readable form . |
| 20 | Conspicuously active since his election six commons speeches , 60 questions , two surgeries a week he defends a 1,975 majority against the same two major party candidates . |
| 21 | Last May British Customs officers seized a shipment of comics brought in by Titan , and recently comics shops in London have been raided by police . |
| 22 | This was decided in 1979 by EETPU v Times Newspapers , which held that the capacity of trade unions to sue had been removed by s2(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 . |
| 23 | She has been a governor of both comprehensive and primary schools and has served as a co-opted member on council social services committees . |
| 24 | Magistrates may have some difficulty in putting on an equal footing Social Services Departments , and the parents of children in care . |
| 25 | As a result , very few software companies developed Windows spreadsheets and the field was left clear for Microsoft 's Excel . |
| 26 | Headway Pre-Intermediate invites students to think about how they learn , and actively encourages good study habits . |
| 27 | The Puerto Rican coqui frogs use a slightly more complicated system , in which the males and females are sensitive to different frequencies . |
| 28 | short period policies or to Contractors All Risks insurances . |
| 29 | Another kind of abstraction- this time influenced by Zen Buddhist teachings figures in the work of Daniel Berlin , a Colorado artist who has lived in New York for the past eight years . |
| 30 | The class composition of formerly core industrial societies changes with a massive decline in the industrial working class and growth in white-collar service employment . |