Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea . |
| 2 | I invariably choose it when I 'm on the Radio 1 My Top Ten sort of things . |
| 3 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 4 | Anyway , we won despite my failing to add to my vast 1992 tally of wickets . |
| 5 | I have been using unleaded petrol in my Ninety 2.5 litre . |
| 6 | More affectionate is his account of Minton who had , as he records , ‘ been brought along to my flat one evening by Keith Vaughan , where he sat on the floor with a drink in his hand , laughing a great deal and saying very little . |
| 7 | I was going back to my flat one evening and I had no cause to feel unsafe . |
| 8 | To this I would wire 2 of my 3 200 watt heaters ; the third would be wired up to the internal stat . |
| 9 | My twelve dozen gin traps would , in season , kill vast numbers of stoats and weasels , as well as rats and hedgehogs . |
| 10 | Could I possibly make my one one minute comment on criteria eleven ? |
| 11 | I , I mean my five hundred pound limit on Marks was what I asked for . |
| 12 | As for my own personal future … well , I have my own Five Year plan to sort out the confusion in which I live . |
| 13 | I was well below my statutory 15,000 key strokes an hour . |
| 14 | He then grabbed my hands and , in the manner of a demented macrame expert , rearranged them around my condemned four iron . |
| 15 | The only thing that I might need a medical for is my thirty thousand pound life insurance . |
| 16 | Could you please advise me as to the cause of the problem I have with my 1988 2.5 petrol County 90 ? |
| 17 | The memory for the Second Division club will be of their historic 10-9 triumph over West Hartlepool last year , a victory secured with a last- minute try that ensured their promotion from the Courage League Division Three alongside their immediate rivals . |
| 18 | Four VI formers , two in their Lower VI year and two Upper VI talked to us of their education and plans for the future under the title ‘ Education for the 1990's ’ . |
| 19 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 20 | In the heat , a woman golfer could move from her normal 80 compression ball to a 90 , and an average male form his normal 90 to 100 , and still have much the same feel as usual , but with added distance . |
| 21 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 22 | Following their narrow 77–74 defeat in Moscow last year , England needed to exact revenge by at least four points to stay on course for next summer 's finals in Germany . |
| 23 | Pure Class restores cars for customers in the United States , Germany and France and it seems that despite the troubles of the Jensen company itself , there 's no lack of demand for these sleek machines with their muscular 7 litre Chrysler engines . |
| 24 | Her down-at-heel 1940s hotel on the edge of the Mexican jungle has few guests , but each is extraordinary — from the defrocked priest ( Alfred Molina ) to an artistic spinster ( Eileen Atkins ) . |
| 25 | Labour argues that it will not be significantly affected because most of those who evade the register would have been among the large proportion — between 20.1 per cent and 31.2 per cent in their top 10 target constituencies — who did not vote in 1987 . |
| 26 | MANIC STREET PREACHERS follow their Top Ten cover of ‘ Theme From Mash ’ , recorded for NME 's ‘ Ruby Trax ’ LP , with a new single next week . |
| 27 | house unit issue their first new single since their Top Ten debut ‘ Playing With Knives ’ 12 months ago , featuring guest vocalist Angie Brown |
| 28 | Balearic house unit follow their Top 30 debut , ‘ Love U More ’ , with a second 45 featuring Leftfield , Farley/Heller , Carl Cox and Wizard Of Oz remixes |
| 29 | A chance to sit back and remember their magical 3-1 win over Tranmere in the first leg at the County Ground . |
| 30 | ARROGANT Jacques Delors yesterday urged Britain to take more Yugoslav refugees — to reward Germany for its tiny ONE QUARTER per cent interest rate cut to help the pound . |