Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other classes struggle all the time , to get anything done you feel you know why are we having this class , we 're not making erm it 's not making a lot of educational sense and one comes to the conclusion after many years of bitter experience that it personal dynamics , it depends on who 's in the group and some groups erm this one successful and some groups which I wo n't mention are relatively unsuccessful and one feels okay that 's because of the inter-personal , it 's who 's in the group and how they interact with each other and try as one might , I suppose I play th the leading role in this group |
| 2 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 3 | A few minutes ' facial sauna , however , is fine because it warms the skin just enough to facilitate absorption . |
| 4 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 5 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 6 | Some of you listen some of you have got a few minutes erm some of you have got a few minutes obviously erm only I 'm not going to start anything . |
| 7 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 8 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 9 | A last cup of coffee and I left ; back to H and T's in time for a few hours ' fitful sleep ; then up and away , run to the station by Aunt Antonia . |
| 10 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 11 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 12 | For example , in 1980 the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , introduced the ‘ short , sharp , shock ’ punishments for young offenders , involving a few months ' strict discipline and almost para-military training in detention centres . |
| 13 | in the summer I usually get him some trainers er cheap , the cheapest trainers anyway , but I mean yes it 's time he has them . |
| 14 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 15 | Firstly , it is a consequence of averaging tariff levels to calculate the CET that some countries ' post-union tariff levels ( namely the CET ) will be higher than pre-union tariff levels . |
| 16 | Yet in practice it has strengthened some countries ' public sectors at the expense of their private ones . |
| 17 | Erm the question of coalescence , freestanding form , is in my opinion of more importance in regard to some corridors th some sectors than others . |
| 18 | Student Kevin Bayliss said raising the money was ‘ extremely difficult ’ and expressed concern for this years ' first and second year . |
| 19 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 20 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |
| 21 | Er , what we can do If the figures are worth eleven and a half days erm seventeen , seventeen days . |
| 22 | Er , for some purposes er other groups are excepted as as part of the Romany , for all the purposes they 're not , but then they said , it depends if it serves their interest to say we 're the true gypsies and they 're not |
| 23 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 24 | James , Earl of Douglas , raided Northumberland , laying siege to Newcastle , and after a few days ' inconclusive skirmishing , the Scots army retreated into the Cheviot Hills . |
| 25 | A genuinely corinthian sailor who spurns sponsorship , she shoe-horns her racing and preparation into a few weeks ' annual holiday taken from London-based solicitors Farrers and Co . |
| 26 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 27 | Then we were off , emptied along with the cotton into the truck that transported the El Azains ' harvest , together with that of the five other families that made up this producers ' co-operative , to the local town to meet the buyer . |
| 28 | So if you do have some breaks erm subsequent service is added on to that . |
| 29 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 30 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |