Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 2 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
| 3 | For if such complexes ' are to play the role of particulars , they can not be regarded as being logically on a par with single qualities . |
| 4 | In the early part of the poem there is ambiguity in the functioning of deictic expressions : an initial deictic term such as " those early dayes ' is supplemented with further deictic information " when I / Shin " d . " |
| 5 | With a couple of exceptions , the separate numbers ' are actually inseparable from their context while , on the other hand , Britten does use Wagnerian leitmotifs as part of a rather more generalised system of motivic transformations . |
| 6 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 7 | The' judges ' are your superiors only in terms of overt status . |
| 8 | These and related observations have been interpreted to mean that " deep dyslexics ' are unable to employ a phonological code , that is , they can not decode a word in terms of its sound structure , and have to rely on a purely visual code in retrieving words from their internal dictionary or lexicon ( Warrington and Shallice , 1979 ; Coltheart , 1980a ) . |
| 9 | St. Martin 's was rebuilt over twenty years after the sack , which implies there was no extensive damage to its structure , and although All Saints ' was also rebuilt at this time , a great deal of its thirteenth-century architecture survived . |
| 10 | In 1989 , Gansu 's " Solar Energy Applied Symposium for Developing Countries ' was attended by participants from 23 countries and international organisations . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Statutory undertakers ' are defined as ‘ persons authorized by any enactment to carry on any railway , light railway , road transport , water transport , canal , inland navigation , dock , harbour , pier or lighthouse undertaking , or any undertaking for the supply of electricity , gas , hydraulic power or water ’ . ) |
| 12 | The goodwill in such cases is commonly valued at so many weeks betting receipts ( often three to four weeks ' is used ) . |