Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year Grundig promised to launch an ‘ autoreverse ’ machine , to give eight hours ' continuous recording on a V2000 cassette , but it never appeared . |
| 2 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 3 | The Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) cited Iraqi " indignation " at " some European states ' subservient policy of subordination to the aggressive and arrogant US policy " . |
| 4 | A rights issue has the advantage of preserving shareholders ' pre-emption rights in respect of a new issue of the offeror 's shares , whereas this is not possible with a cash underwritten alternative unless accompanied by an open offer and clawback ( see below ) . |
| 5 | It has also managed to improve political prisoners ' living conditions . |
| 6 | She was sentenced to 120 hours ' unpaid community work . |
| 7 | 850 Gibbons ' blazing glories |
| 8 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 9 | As late as 1891 Engels ' major work on the state still described universal suffrage as merely ‘ the gauge of the maturity of the working class . |
| 10 | UK political parties ' environmental manifestos |
| 11 | He owned the plane and had 300 hours ' flying experience . |
| 12 | The extensive , systematic and ‘ unalterable ’ inequalities between different groups ' economic muscle and political influence are exposed . |
| 13 | ENGLISH EXPERTS ' DOUBLE DUTCH … |
| 14 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 15 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 16 | A few minutes ' facial sauna , however , is fine because it warms the skin just enough to facilitate absorption . |
| 17 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 18 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 19 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 20 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 21 | A last cup of coffee and I left ; back to H and T's in time for a few hours ' fitful sleep ; then up and away , run to the station by Aunt Antonia . |
| 22 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 23 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 24 | The Irish-American hip-hop outfit , currently riding high in the US charts , signed to XL Recordings ' new Ruffness label last month . |
| 25 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 26 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 27 | That includes two seasons as Scottish Schools ' stand-off out of Galashiels Academy ( he was captain in all four games last season ) , each of the national youth grades in Scotland , U21 and Scottish Students , Scotland ‘ B ’ appearances against Ireland ‘ B ’ and France ‘ B ’ , a Scottish trial in January and now selection for Scotland 's tour to Australia in May and June . |
| 28 | For example , in 1980 the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , introduced the ‘ short , sharp , shock ’ punishments for young offenders , involving a few months ' strict discipline and almost para-military training in detention centres . |
| 29 | It opened to 12 months ' solid booking , having taken record advance bookings of$9.6 million in ticket sales . |
| 30 | Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate . |