Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , together with the interim dividend of 2.3 pence per share paid on 5 October 1992 , would make a total for the year of 3.3 pence per share [ 1991 8.5 pence ] . |
| 2 | A final dividend of 7.1 pence per share , up 0.45 pence , is being proposed to shareholders as Resolution No. 2 at the Annual General Meeting , making a total for the year of 10.3 pence , an increase of 6.7% over last year . |
| 3 | The company is recommending a final dividend of 4.1p per share , making a total for the year of 5.8p , up 14pc on last year 's payout of 5.1p . |
| 4 | The board has recommended a final dividend of 3.95p per share , making a total for the year of 5.4p , a 10pc improvement on 1991 . |
| 5 | Shareholders will receive a final dividend of 14.9p a share , making a total for the year of 21p per share , up by 15pc . |
| 6 | ‘ You grow quite professional as a landlady . |
| 7 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 8 | He proved himself to be thoroughly professional as a railwayman and ruthless as a manager . |
| 9 | The marquis managed to pour the brandy without spilling it , his face chalk-white as the ramifications of Horatia 's return began to dawn on him . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think he looks rather divine as an officer ? ’ |
| 11 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 12 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 13 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 14 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 15 | Get rid of Norman for a start ; you ca n't have a chancellor who goes round telling the voters ‘ Je ne regrette rien ’ , when lots of them have lost their jobs and their homes because of what he does n't regret . |
| 16 | Not only tragedy would feel the ban , but comedy , too , since all drama begins with human frailty , and none so universal and absurd as the propensity of mankind to behave badly . |
| 17 | In any case there is something absurd about the notion that language or words can be attacked independently of their users . |
| 18 | THERE is still something slightly absurd about the notion that 4,812,000 people cast their votes for Mr Dan Duffy . |
| 19 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 20 | Lorry drivers in a transport cafe enjoying their breakfast were marooned for a time and really the best form of transport was by canoe . |
| 21 | I am being polite about the way in which the Government have behaved when I say that they have dealt with our recommendations in a cavalier fashion . |
| 22 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 23 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 24 | means they are outstanding for an average of 67 days . |
| 25 | Suppose : That through good collecting your average accounts receivable are reduced to £ 150,000 , which means they are outstanding for an average of 45 days . |
| 26 | If , following the issue of the reminder , the charging authority still does not receive payment , the right to pay by instalments is lost and the charge payer becomes liable to pay the authority the full amount of community charge outstanding for the remainder of the year . |
| 27 | In the lower court , the Lord Ordinary had found that s 6 of the Act did not prevent the Crown from seeking a decree de plana for recovery , in October 1989 , of the tax outstanding for the years 1979/80 to 1981/82 . |
| 28 | Back was outstanding for the Midlands against South West two weeks ago and tore into the Barbarians like a wolf at a flock of sheep . |
| 29 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 30 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |