Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 2 | I do n't give damn about building contractors not being paid . |
| 3 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 4 | Most of us are nervous and apprehensive about job interviews . |
| 5 | And in the scope and authority section of the document it gives the right for section conferences to have the authority to discuss and decide strategic issues affecting their industries . |
| 6 | It is understandable for health authorities to err on the side of caution , as these guidelines will not apply to everyone . |
| 7 | The referendum was officially boycotted by six republics ( Armenia , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldava — although voting took place in some districts of these republics ) , while Kazakhstan , the RFSFR , Ukraine and Uzbekistan voted on additional questions concerning each republic 's status in the USSR [ see pp. 38078-79 for referendum details ] . |
| 8 | This bothy also doubles as a stable for estate garrons ( hill ponies ) . |
| 9 | Following upon the Cleveland Report which was concerned with civil proceedings the Criminal Justice Act 1991 has now made it possible for video recordings of interviews with children to be used as evidence in criminal proceedings . |
| 10 | Wedgwood 's policy is to comply with all legislative requirements and to make the workplace as comfortable as possible for VDU users . |
| 11 | It is still possible for member states to shut doors , if they want to . |
| 12 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 13 | Of these three ingredients , the first is seldom possible for open-market economies , given market forces . |
| 14 | It is possible for conspiracy theorists to criticize both aspects of this simplicity without discarding the basic notion that there is a Jewish/Zionist conspiracy . |
| 15 | However , it is possible for market prices to lead to sub-optimal decisions . |
| 16 | However , it is possible for war engines and large monsters to damage them . |
| 17 | It is also possible for research students to transfer from one degree to another research degree of a higher standing . |
| 18 | Whilst it was clearly not possible for news organizations to make many savings in editorial costs since they employ relatively few full-time journalists , they necessarily turned to the production areas . |
| 19 | In the case of Georgia , for instance , the legislation provided for the greater use of Georgian in official business , and for compulsory instruction in Georgian for school pupils of other nationalities . |
| 20 | To the right of the kitchener were two cupboards , the top some five feet high used for airing clothes , the lower containing all the necessary paraphernalia for the stove — blacklead and brushes , metal polish for the shiny parts plus the boot and shoe cleaning materials . |
| 21 | The placement might involve " shadowing " a manager , or following a programme of meetings and activities in order to learn as much as possible about business processes . |
| 22 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 23 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 24 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 25 | For administrative reasons it would be undesirable for base rates to change every time money market rates changed , but if the change is large enough , then a base rate change becomes necessary . |
| 26 | But he is doing very little about policy problems themselves . |
| 27 | At $17 a chip , the price of 4-megabit DRAMs is already probably too low for semiconductor manufacturers to recoup the cost of the new production lines needed to make them . |
| 28 | Pamela Chrimes had left for England and John wrote that Yvonne Blake ‘ is making an excellent Scarlet Woman , but her ankles are too weak for point shoes , so she 's doing it in high heels ; it looks quite nice . ’ |
| 29 | Natural populations of white clover are polymorphic for incompatibility alleles and for the ability to form nitrogen fixing symbioses with strains of Rhizobium but these have not been looked at at Henfaes . |
| 30 | He came to Madeira in 1838 for health reasons and in 1841 married the daughter of Robert Wallas , a wine-shipper and steam-driven flourmill owner . |