Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | This struck me as being not only unfortunate , but also a bit like a quiz show host revealing to losing contestants the prizes they could have won . |
2 | It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development . |
3 | Commander Churchill-Coleman said : ‘ As always with the Provisional IRA when they commit these acts the information they gave was erroneous . |
4 | Attitudes represent the way we see things ; preferences the way we like things to be ; prejudices the way we potentially distort what we see . |
5 | If Superstores own-brands the coffee it sells , it can avoid liability by labelling it with a statement such as ‘ Made for Superstores by Coffee Fellers Inc . ’ |
6 | And in some cases the assumptions you have asked us to cost are vulnerable to counter attack from the Opposition . |
7 | When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them . |
8 | What we are doing is providing information for perhaps clinicians to act on , we also in the future hope to develop the information we have into something useful , and in some cases the information we have already . |
9 | For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice . |
10 | A whole lot in the council houses the distillery I do n't know them at all . |
11 | Finally taking a look at traffic in and around Nottingham 's roads the vehicles I can see are moving steadily . |
12 | It 's time to stop supporting Linfield , John , and give the other clubs the credit they deserve . |
13 | At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining . |
14 | She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them . |
15 | ( iv ) In the case of external objects the observations he makes may fall short of what he claims to be the case . |
16 | The formality of the container itself gives herbs the precision they need to make the most of their subtle colourings and aromas , and to display their foliage shapes at their best . |
17 | Our committee , dominated by batsmen and wicketkeepers unfortunately , think that the sightscreens are a Good Thing , but there are also those of us whose playing career is prolonged only by the knowledge that with village pitches the state they are , even a bad player can hope to strike lucky now and again . |
18 | Posh Porky seemed to be torn between going along with her old man to the synagogue and staying put at the shop , where she 'd sit by the window and start scoffing cream buns the moment he was out of sight . |
19 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
20 | In contrast , the population of the inner ring is now nearly four times the size it was at the beginning of this century and the population of the outer ring is nearly twice the size . |
21 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
22 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
23 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
24 | The average dairy cow produces 45–50 litres of milk every day , ten times the amount she would produce for a suckling calf . |
25 | It spits out four times the amount she asks for . |
26 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
27 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
28 | At times the care they received seemed very far from that of a reasonable concerned parent . |
29 | Some of us were great courtesans very definitely , certainly Stella sitting on her stool at the bar , you 'd think she was in pearls the way she sat there . |
30 | ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived . |