Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 .
2 ‘ Is that right the filth came in looking for your Mickey and the electric went ?
3 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
4 Suitably updated to twenties and thirties Georgian the style remained dominant in the inter-war years .
5 Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’
6 But of course , Couples has n't had that outstanding a career , so far .
7 Several science students seemed to believe that there was very little that an arts degree qualified graduates to do .
8 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
9 Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care .
10 Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm .
11 To make that possible the system resorts to three major devices already mentioned : preferential voting , the transferability of votes and election by quotas .
12 Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too .
13 Took about bloody half an hour to get it out the pan !
14 out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ?
15 But erm that old the A and B we used to call them actually .
16 For example , the pH in the stomach of a great horned owl was 2.2 before a meal and increased to 2.4 half an hour after eating , with further increases to 2.7 two hours after the meal and 3.0 four hours afterwards .
17 Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair .
18 By 1850 half the population lived in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants , far ahead of any other European country .
19 By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly .
20 patient , identical Cournot duopolists can implicitly collude by each producing one-half the monopoly output , with any deviation triggering a switch to the Cournot outcome .
21 Harpin , for example , follows the traditional primary curriculum model of writing , distinguishing only the creative and the factual , but admits that this a weakness in his work .
22 but it annoys me that , why , you see , I 'm , I 'm asking for cover for technical half an hour in the morning
23 The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong .
24 Despite Gorbachev 's assurances to two Armenian emissaries that a ‘ just solution ’ would be found , the Supreme Soviet Presidium warned on 23 March that ‘ self-proclaimed groups ’ ( a reference to the Karabakh Committee , a group of Armenian activists whose activities were made illegal ) could not be allowed to call for the redrawing of state and administrative boundaries , and Pravda made clear that the transfer of .
25 And I look at issues much broader that the sites availability .
26 Lot forty eight a Style number six now showing , thank you , Lot forty eight and I have three hundred offered , three twenty , three fifty three hundred and fifty pounds , any more at three fifty ?
27 Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform .
28 Jinny found some nearer the top , in the open , where she could stand and peer down at the cottage .
29 I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat .
30 What 's this half a day then ?
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