Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Warwick based subsidiary , employing about 100 was known in the trade as L.D.P. Ltd. and on last year 's turnover returned a £396,000 net loss . |
| 2 | Cecilia Taylor would like all those teachers who have taken tickets for sale to let her have number sold as soon as possible and by 31st January at the latest . |
| 3 | The Maud Committee interpreted its terms of reference in a specific and at first sight unexpected manner . |
| 4 | Then , as he stirred , her body came alive and at last , matching the rhythm of his , she once more gave herself up to the unashamed pleasure of loving and being loved by him . |
| 5 | I had to tug hard and at last freed him . |
| 6 | Of course , I began to suspect — it was terrible and at last I asked why my father did n't write to me . |
| 7 | With the fall of Singapore the fate of Rangoon seemed sealed and on 19th February I paid my last visit to the Delta , to bring back our missionary nurse and to confer with village clergy and elders and teachers about what should be done if the worst happened . |
| 8 | As she filled in the forms for him , the girl in Despatch , big and black and at last a friendly face , told him she was from Mississippi , and sure as hell she hated Greeks , Athens , moussaka and retsina . |
| 9 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 10 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 11 | Kohlberg 's stages of moral development are usually described as a progression from lower to higher — itself an inbuilt and at first unrecognised value-judgement . |
| 12 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 13 | He sounded impatient and at last she found her voice . |
| 14 | It was on this visit that Dana did something I found surprising and at first puzzling . |
| 15 | The town centre hotels which were suggested were fiendishly expensive and at first I was told nothing else was available . |