Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bent over the pattern , her strong fingers guiding her scissors . |
| 2 | In the same schedule I accept Mrs suggestions for the school holidays and the rates that she gives so that one has seven thousand , eight hundred and fifty two pounds fifty times four which equals thirty one thousand , four hundred and ten pounds . |
| 3 | Well I I think one of the greatest deterrents that one can have is the copper on the beat . |
| 4 | In the light of this worrying development the C.C.P.R. has negotiated a Civil Liability Insurance policy , on behalf of all its members , which gives wider cover , for more people , at lower premiums that our own current policy . |
| 5 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 6 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 7 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 8 | The sermon was on 2 Corinthians 5:17 which is a wonderful verse and exactly right for a New year . |
| 9 | Okay , working with anybody , just just for just for a few minutes each it 's just because what I want you to experience is what it 's like to continually go over the same thing , I want you to experience that , to continually stick to your guns just experience that okay ? |
| 10 | In many ways it seems churlish to criticize Competing Discourses as I have , for there are so few books available which engage with discourse stylistics in a manner which is readable and accessible . |
| 11 | Of these 30 dismissals those which came before the Industrial Tribunal in this case were found to be unfair . |
| 12 | Anyway , it was a bit weird cos we had to go with parties cos they 're all they 're all black and they 're all about six and a half feet tall you know ! |
| 13 | What Mulliner 's book does not represent adequately is English church music during the agonizing years 1534–58 which saw Henry VIII 's pseudo-Reformation and dissolution of those musical strongholds , the monasteries ; the Protestant triumph and English liturgy of 1549 ; the Catholic reaction and Mary 's marriage to Philip of Spain ( who brought with him during 1554–5 his ‘ Flemish chapel ’ including Philipp de Monte and his organist Cabezon ) ; and the accession of Elizabeth I. Most of Taverner 's church music was probably written before this period , during the years 1526–30 when he was organist and choirmaster of Cardinal College ( now Christ Church ) , Oxford ; it includes eight Masses , three Magnificats , as well as shorter pieces . |
| 14 | As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine . |
| 15 | Peter Jones , who ran the Atomic Weapons Establishment from 1982 to 1987 , is also concerned that production of the next generation of Trident warheads is going ahead in buildings which are more than 30 years old which might not be able to contain a bad leak . |
| 16 | At nearly thirty-six years old he captured his fifth Open title , just one short of Harry Vardon 's record . |
| 17 | Well anybody over forty years old it ought to be , it ought to be compulsory ! |
| 18 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 19 | There are a few tracks available which combine with a valance rail ( page 16 ) . |
| 20 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 21 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 22 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 23 | Now 12 years old he carries top weight in the Maze Handicap Hurdle . |
| 24 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 25 | After a few weeks all our money was gone and everything was in pawn so Dad had to go to the relief office . |
| 26 | From from a few weeks old she 'd be sitting on on there was an old er wreck of a boat there . |
| 27 | I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it . |
| 28 | There are some suites available which would suit a family , or friends in groups of three or four , and represent very good value . |
| 29 | The purpose of the USRC was explained by its secretary to Lord Willoughby de Broke in August 1911 : " I still remain convinced as I have always been that unless you put yourself straight with the people on Social questions all your Tariff Reform , Home Rule or Constitutional thunderbolts will be discharged -in vain . |
| 30 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |