Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 2 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 3 | I 've managed to overcome the problems and I get around quite quickly — but I 've got chunks knocked out of the back of all my necks where the slide catches ! ’ |
| 4 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 5 | I could n't believe my eyes when the consultant in charge of my pregnancy came round the antenatal ward in my local hospital , puffing away on a cigar . |
| 6 | I was moving forward to weigh my potatoes when the little boy caught hold of my coat . |
| 7 | It addresses all my criticisms notably the text reflow problem . |
| 8 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 9 | I was taking off my trousers when the radio operator came in and said someone was having an epileptic fit in one of the seismic camps . |
| 10 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 11 | Although I put my hands together every night — with Ma , when she 's home , otherwise on my own — I have not prayed since the rainbow incident . |
| 12 | One guy put in a pressure of 120 psi , which raised my eyebrows not a little . |
| 13 | I had an Indian friend in the bad year , a lawyer from Udaipur who kept up my spirits when the partners were after me . |
| 14 | If the Commission does not change its views then the matter will have to be resolved by discussion in the European Council of Ministers . |
| 15 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 16 | her sons not the name of her then |
| 17 | If in doubt the purchaser should insist that the vendor obtains from its shareholders either a consent or an acknowledgment that their consent is not required . |
| 18 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |
| 19 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 20 | It is abundantly clear that Mr Radice has two main objectives — to ensure that the Department of Health is required to give its reasons why a product licence for a medicine is granted , revoked , or suspended , and to ensure that patients are provided with better and more comprehensive information about the risks and benefits of the medicines that are prescribed for them . |
| 21 | The grandfather dock in the dining-room sent its notes upstairs every quarter-hour . |
| 22 | There was no reply to her calls so the lifeboat continued to search out to the west of the area . |
| 23 | But they were still the scholarship girls , objects of envy because they were not ordinary , objects of pity because they were poor , their accomplishments scarcely the point . |
| 24 | Each couple was like a parody of the other , their attitudes much the same . |
| 25 | Unhappily , many of the 700 subscribers must have failed to deliver the second cash instalment and take up their copies when the book was published in 1765 . |
| 26 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 27 | It says no women check their cars twice a week , although 15 per cent of men do . |
| 28 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 29 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 30 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |