Example sentences of "[adj] [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I only ever wish to please him and I 'm very sorry my pet gibbon was taken to the palace . |
| 2 | The variety of activities that my class regard as ‘ useful ’ . |
| 3 | From this my vantage ground |
| 4 | Wearside , who host the Durham County championships in a fortnight 's time , have produced a book which chronicles the history of the club from its humble beginnings in 1892 to this their centenary year . |
| 5 | The government more or less completed its price deregulation programme on March 1 when it freed most fixed prices for food and daily necessities ; only bread and flour prices remained controlled . |
| 6 | Serious answer : Condense the soup by boiling off half its water content . |
| 7 | A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored . |
| 8 | The enthalpy of atomisation of chlorine is half its bond dissociation enthalpy . |
| 9 | Vietnam has lost around half its forest cover in recent decades through a combination of war and population pressure . |
| 10 | Until these holdings are improved , the museum would best mount high-quality temporary shows , rather than abide by its stated intention to consecrate half its exhibition space to the permanent collection . |
| 11 | Young specimens will feed greedily on insects and fry , as well as its smaller brethren , while the adults will take anything from insects and larvae to fish of half its body length and small rodents . |
| 12 | These are confined to the Coccoidea , where the best known is carminic acid , the colouring principle of cochineal , found in the eggs and fat body of the female Dactylopius coccus and accounting for half its body weight . |
| 13 | ICI , although running at a loss of £384 million , still distributed £393 million to its shareholders , over half its R&D budget . |
| 14 | The Buckau once reached a speed of better than 7.4 km/h on rotor power alone , about half her design speed of 16.5 km/h . |
| 15 | She ge , I think she gets half , half her pocket money this week cos she 's paying |
| 16 | This highly detailed yacht has been maintained to perfection and is for sale at less than half her replacement cost . |
| 17 | If the Nikkei falls much further it will eat into the assets of the main Japanese banks , which depend on equity holdings for almost half their capital base . |
| 18 | It has been found , however , that most people only use about half their breathing potential which means the brain is only receiving about half its quota of oxygen . |
| 19 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 20 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 21 | The band 's onstage antics are almost as tacky and see-through as the music , and one ca n't help wondering if half their rehearsal time is n't taken up with mandatory pogoing practice . |
| 22 | People arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in the UK are allowed to send half their blood sample to a private certification agency to corroborate the results of the police analysis . |
| 23 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 24 | Despite their scepticism , readers said they found the press useful , particularly for guiding their voting decision if not for providing information . |
| 25 | Gooch was the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket for the 1980s , with over 21,000 at 49 , and in view of this his Test record -4,724 runs at just under 37 from 73 Tests before the tour began — is something of a disappointment , and illustrates clearly the difference it makes to a player to belong to a successful side . |
| 26 | And it could n't have come at a better time for the 29 year old bowler in this his benefit season . |
| 27 | On this his wedding day he seemed strangely at peace . |
| 28 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 29 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 30 | As little as she did to him , Iago thought , for now that he was to have half his money back , that he had staked on her ennoblement and his grandchild 's inheritance , he scarcely noticed her . |