Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We need to control it Bea ; why should those fat cats get rich off our books ? ’ |
| 2 | Footnote for Davidson Room Team : – total for our books and records was £4179.81 . |
| 3 | More English wines are beginning to appear on wine lists as growers become increasingly professional about their production and marketing . |
| 4 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 5 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ We were extremely righteous about our drugs in those days . |
| 6 | It looked too frail for his hand . |
| 7 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |
| 8 | In the five weeks since Perrier , a French bubbly-water company , was struck by a contamination scare , its competitors have been exquisitely polite about its travails . |
| 9 | His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 10 | A cheque for the amount outstanding for our services arrived yesterday . |
| 11 | Team Scotland 's Ten Pin bowlers were again rampant during their victory in a four team international last October . |
| 12 | I find them ‘ dead ’ in the ashtray or unlit between my fingers . |
| 13 | People appeared to be very small , and their voices were too loud for their size . |
| 14 | It 's due for its MOT test . |
| 15 | Well when , the week before I 'm due for my period I 'm really really nasty , in |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm due for my ride . ’ |
| 17 | your due to , you know , you , you were due for your hip replacement . |
| 18 | It was hesitant about its role , and indeed divided within itself over doctrinal issues like the significance of the Resurrection , and over such indicators of change as the ordination of women . |
| 19 | ‘ And there is also ’ , the clerk said , ‘ two hundred and seventy-nine dollars owing for your calls , señor . ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Carson had been a little apprehensive about their visit . |
| 21 | If employees hear rumours of an impending move , they are likely to be very apprehensive about their future with the firm and worry about having to uproot themselves and their families to move to an unfamiliar area or take redundancy . |
| 22 | We are cold and cramped , and apprehensive about our reception , the adequacy of our response to the speeches of welcome , and our awful singing . |
| 23 | Even Steve sounded a little apprehensive about his father 's anger . |
| 24 | Ealhfrith may also have been apprehensive about his father 's plans for his younger half-brother , Ecgfrith , who appears to have married Aethelthryth , widowed daughter of Anna , king of the eastern Angles , c . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it is logical that models which can yield an investment strategy capable of beating a process of random selection and ‘ buy-and-hold ’ would not be published until they ceased to be profitable for their creators . |
| 26 | A depressing number of British and US publishers turned it down — most of them warm in their praise of the book , but expressing doubt as to whether the political climate in Britain and the USA was right for its content . |
| 27 | Had she known more about healthy eating and what was right for her body , she might well have been able to prevent most of the problems that she experienced . |
| 28 | I took my child out of the school system because I did n't think the physio she had was right for her needs . |
| 29 | Event organiser and wine expert Jean Francois Jamet of Guinness Northern Ireland said : ‘ The trade here work very hard to get it right for their customers , and this event will give them an unequalled chance to sample probably the widest range of wines ever assembled for buyers in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 30 | Whether the graptolites were not living near shore , or whether the conditions were not right for their preservation , are questions that have excited some argument . |