Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | Took about bloody half an hour to get it out the pan ! |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | but it annoys me that , why , you see , I 'm , I 'm asking for cover for technical half an hour in the morning |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On LIFFE the 50% cross allows the broker/dealer to pre-match half the order , provided he has not taken one side of the cross himself , and he has filled the other half of the order in the pit . |
| 9 | This was infrequent in the units participating in this study , but in centres where the relative surgical and endoscopic expertise is different such a situation may well arise more commonly . |
| 10 | In terms of legitimacy with the general public such a strategy could also be effective , since the public can be reassured that the really ‘ serious , offenders about whom they are most concerned will be kept locked up for long periods . |
| 11 | Even more off-putting , though , must have been the permanent doubt about what kind of narrative such a history would be : a celebration or an obituary ? |
| 12 | Because erm , the urban sector is normally considered to be capital intensive a sector , and the rural area in L D Cs are considered more labour intensive , and so erm , obviously when you get an influx of labour , and changes to the capital to labour ratio |
| 13 | The right hand is closed on the cloak , the broken left no doubt on a bird or a fruit . |
| 14 | Different every day cos everything is different all the time , it keeps changing . |
| 15 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 16 | It started as a funnelling current the size of a sea horse , then lengthened , sucking in a core of air . |
| 17 | GUIL : No … it was light all the time , you see , and you opened your eyes very , very slowly . |
| 18 | I 've had my reservations about all three of these acts at one time or another , but , standing here , gripped and pulsing , in Chicago University 's Mandel Hall , my veins pumping nothing but Dr Pepper and fatigue , it become obvious that I WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY . |
| 19 | Right , okay , I bet he 's wrong all the way through |
| 20 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 21 | This way I 'm wrong all the time ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Those little cars go wrong all the time . |
| 23 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 24 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 26 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 27 | You 're high all the time except for those periods when you just crash because your adrenalin has left you . ’ |
| 28 | but Jesus Christ calls his people to be faithful all the time , throughout life . |
| 29 | I did n't like the beer factory all that much — it was wet all the time , but in the yeast factory I quite liked that , because I was working with machines … |
| 30 | ‘ Having to be so careful all the time not to offend their susceptibilities . |