Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 2 | This includes ensuring that a proper market and proper information exist for the products that the exchange trades ; and that transactions are properly recorded . |
| 3 | Two times half a car does not make a car . |
| 4 | THE LEADER of the eight miners trapped for 15 hours half a mile underground told yesterday of their joy at seeing the first rescuer . |
| 5 | The voices of camel riders half a mile away were uncannily clear . |
| 6 | When she joined me-after we 'd met while she was still an undercover FedPol investigator — she sternly announced that she was coming into the firm for the sake of the money , and because the job offered interest and challenge without the lethal risks that a FedPol agent often had to run . |
| 7 | I think that 's a prudent way of going about things , it 's responsive t to the questions which you might possibly have read and but it does n't make over optimistic assessments about the likely savings that the council control . |
| 8 | Because if it is n't Dorrainge telling you how we 'll be defeated , it 's Lugh Longhand making speeches half the night . ’ |
| 9 | Carlie also claimed that when she was two months old a baby-sitter had stolen a gold cross from round her neck . |
| 10 | At four and a half months old , young pigs are taken for slaughter to be sold as pork ; at six months old the remainder meet their end as bacon . |
| 11 | As she kicked her legs high the air |
| 12 | However , the half-life of the process is something like 1022 years ; in other words half a sample of nuclei would decay by this means in 1022 years . |
| 13 | An instruction might therefore explicitly specify three store locations ; an example of such a three-address instruction is Add the contents of store addresses A and B , depositing the result at store address C In early computers such a technique was feasible , since store capacities ( and therefore operand field lengths ) were small , and addressing mode fields were often absent . |
| 14 | The Mond — Turner talks attempted to form a common alliance between the employers and the unions on such matters as unemployment , outlining remedies such a development fund , colonial development , more liberal trade facilities , export credits , augmented pensions for those retiring at sixty-five , the raising of the school-leaving age , and , above all , ‘ the substitution of modern plant and techniques for existing machinery and methods ’ — in consultation with the unions and with measures ... for safeguarding workers displaced by rationalization . ’ |
| 15 | According to the DoT 's own guidelines such a figure is too much for a dual carriageway . |
| 16 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 17 | In 1912 the firm amalgamated with many others to form the British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. a subsidiary of the A.P.C.M. |
| 18 | Isabel had clung to those words all the way home , wrapped snugly in fitzAlan 's cloak , held fast in his arms . |
| 19 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes , turning the carrots all the time . |
| 20 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 21 | The bastard had been standing silently between her legs all the time : leering over her torment . |
| 22 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
| 23 | I know , there 's steps all the way up the front |
| 24 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 25 | I know it 's done in offices all the time , but I found it to be quite a project . |
| 26 | The music will tell you what to do , so you have to look for new technical solutions all the time . |
| 27 | You would n't have caught the late French President doing that , even when being shot at , and my De Gaulle also wore spectacles all the time , but the nose and toothbrush moustache were the same . |
| 28 | So before SuperSparc corrals all the business , he 's sending Sun messages in the press that if it does n't buy HyperSparc — also known as Pinnacle — he 's going to turn round and do the Alpha for DEC . |
| 29 | Gives , gives her the cramps all the way across here . |
| 30 | She was on Beth 's heels all the way back to the drawing room , and now , when Beth was seated in the big armchair and eagerly slitting open the envelope with the tortoise-shell letter-knife , Cissie was kneeling on the floor beside her . |