Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Why should the commission believe that advanced mousetrap manufacture , say , should be represented in at least two member states when one manufacturer might supply the whole of Europe with the products and thus could be better placed to export as well ?
2 Conversely , too much upper pectoral development and too little lower pectoral development gives the impression of a chest that ‘ fades ’ away .
3 I 'm not sure I could stand shlapping up and down to that bloody clinic time and time again .
4 That bloody fucker Mr Kipling pretending to whity he knew something about India !
5 do you know that bloody ginger cat , I 'm not kidding you
6 I just sat there on that bloody Sag Bag picking bits of Farley 's out of the corduroy and wishing it would open up and the polystyrene granules would swallow me !
7 Where 's that bloody pencil sharpener thing gone ?
8 He says I bought you that bloody dress ring ye bloody years back .
9 Do you mean that that bloody fool Hector McGillivray fobbed me off with a boat that 's — that 's been- ? ’
10 That bloody phone call !
11 That bloody bitch Sam had gone ahead knowing that Louise was coming round .
12 ‘ Apart from all that hoo-ha about that bloody fellow Trueman , ’ said Fagg .
13 Sod that bloody Tony Jones !
14 and yet you know that night Chris , and on that bloody Wednesday night knew what was going on , every bugger knew but Margaret .
15 Watch that bloody dustbin lorry come in here now !
16 That bloody Williams bloke makes me puke !
17 precisely , I mean Prince , the Duchess of York goes to church and she lived in sin for ye years with that bloody racing driver so she 's , she 's nothing
18 Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’
19 There 's enough in that bloody front lawn , I do n't know where ca about it !
20 Morpurgo precious near writing us both off in that bloody car crash .
21 Our Dawn told me he 's had to go and wait for that bloody pregnancy scan .
22 In a world of perfect certainty and perfect foresight the traditional view of the term structure is that long-run interest rates are simply averages of future short-term rates , so that : where denotes the ‘ one-period ’ rate , that is the market rate of interest at time t on bonds with one period to maturity ; and denotes the ‘ n-period ’ rate , that is the market interest rate at time t on bonds with n periods to maturity .
23 In addition to SSAPs and SORPs , each professional body issues , from time to time , other statements on accounting matters that form part of GAAP .
24 Just over a tenth ( 11–12 per cent ) of each used fixed-term contract workers and just over a fifth ( 22 per cent ) of each used agency workers .
25 no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years
26 The Secretary of State for Health reviews proposals to promote efficiency with each Regional Health Authority chairman and the latter then meets the chairmen of the District Health Authorities to implement the policies , covering specific spending and manpower targets .
27 They cover each regional tourist board in England ; two for Scotland and one for Wales .
28 Nevertheless , though difficulties remain in locating each possible measurement focus , the idea is one that provides an escape from the dominant ( if woolly ) notion of accruals accounting as an all-or-nothing alternative to cash accounting .
29 At the end , one of the least likely , a substitute , earned himself a fine , and that perennial problem child Moin Khan got a finger-wagging .
30 THE SOLUTION to that perennial trainer problem , what to do with the laces , may be nigh .
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