Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's get that bit right nationally renowned . |
| 2 | In the judgment in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. the court ruled , inter alia , that a member state might lay down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel had a real economic link with that state if that link concerned only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries . |
| 3 | It appeared that signer 2 very clearly used speech throughout , one presumes to make lip-reading easier for a deaf audience . |
| 4 | Do n't pull the wool tight — leave loops between each stitch big enough to put your little finger into . |
| 5 | Adjustment is not complete , it 's partial alright , so we 're going to say that supply adjusts in the following manner , right , according to the partial adjustment hypothesis alright , so changes in actual supply alright , will be delta of the difference between the desired level of output for T , right and the actual level of input T minus one alright , plus er alright , so that was just our partial adjustment model that we looked at last week , right , we 'll call that equation three okay right . |
| 6 | No , it 's that side first then . |
| 7 | He went on to propose the semi-semi-disfranchisement of a second group of small boroughs with a population of under 4,000 , allowing each borough one instead of two members . |
| 8 | God this Tippex stiff enough ? |
| 9 | There are however two difficulties which render this advantage hypothetical rather than real . |
| 10 | In some groups this wholly muscular form does not occur : the filarioids and spiruroids have a muscular-glandular oesophagus which is muscular anteriorly , the posterior part being glandular ; the trichuroid oesophagus has a capillary form , passing through a single column of cells , the whole being known as stichosome . |
| 11 | Well you 'd better get some money ready then had n't you ? |
| 12 | In some cases this most durable , but increasingly unobtainable , material is used as a capping ridge to a thatch of Norfolk reed . |
| 13 | In some cases this only extends to personal or physical independence , but for many people ageing represents a threat to their independence in the much wider sense of losing control over how they wish to live their lives . |
| 14 | but a , as I say if it 's , you know , if he got ta pay off all this money first well |
| 15 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 16 | If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy . |
| 17 | It was anticipated that there would be controversy in the US Congress over this arms package , notably because of the concern of the pro-Israeli lobby over such agreements with Arab countries , and on Sept. 23 Baker said that the request was to be scaled down , from the original package worth $21,000 million to a smaller-scale sale totalling some $7,500 million initially . |
| 18 | Britain has its ‘ sale of the century ’ with the Saudis , which used to be reported as worth some £20 billion over 20 years or so . |
| 19 | January 1989 brought another Friday 13th so I was sure one of us would be on the move . |
| 20 | Japan also encourages domestic mining with government grants and loans that in the late 1970s totalled some £5 million annually . |
| 21 | Will the Minister confirm that in the Prime Minister 's first year , far from escaping from short-termism , 45,000 businesses have gone under , 70,000 homes have been repossessed , 700,000 more people have lost their jobs and manufacturing investment has fallen by £2 billion this year and , according to the CBI , will fall by another £400 million even in 1992 ? |
| 22 | Is this proposal good enough ? |
| 23 | I carried Emily — she was one and a half years old then . |
| 24 | Over the past few years several rather unexpected countries — Cambodia , Haiti , Romania ( admittedly after executing Nicolae Ceausescu ) and , the latest recruit , Namibia — have joined most of Western Europe and Latin America in abolishing the death penalty for ordinary criminal offences . |
| 25 | Further , even if it may be true that characteristic adjectives are never barred from prenominal occurrence , there are certainly instances where occasion adjectives are ungrammatical in postnominal position , as in : ( 30 ) Eddy will present the cheque to the winner happy we have yet to overcome this obstacle immediate Thus , Bolinger 's distinction between " characteristic " use and " occasion " use is neither necessary nor sufficient for postnominal occurrence , even if it overlaps to an interesting extent with the difference in position of the adjective . |
| 26 | I wonder if that I 'm now being serious is this room big enough if a lot of people want to come ? |
| 27 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 28 | It was good to spend a few days all together , we visited Falkland Place on Saturday pm , and it was fun to go to St Paul 's and St George 's to worship on Easter day . |
| 29 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 30 | It is important to note at this point two very different ways in which the word " secular " can be used . |