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

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1 Give me that any day over bedroom music . ’
2 A series of four wins gave them 12 more points at the most important time to guarantee not only the victory but a bonus for top scoring over the two legs of the match .
3 So therefore until they stay char start charging me some more money on it I 'm gon na keep quiet .
4 The first reported expression of dissent occurred in Balston Ltd v Headline Filters [ 1987 ] FSR 330 where Scott J at pp347 and 348 said , having quoted from the judgment of Neill LJ in Faccenda , both counsel before me express some reservations about that passage insofar as it suggests that confidential information can not be protected by a suitably worded restrictive convenant binding on an ex-employee unless the information can be regarded as trade secret in the third of the categories described by Goulding J. I am bound to say that I share these reservations .
5 During my first few days in the refuge , I feel myself descend into depression .
6 I must admit that my first few days in my new home were quite strange and a little frightening .
7 When we signed the Report , on 29 January 1970 , I was in my first few weeks of a sabbatical term at Merton College , Oxford , and in need of a short rest from the work and vocabulary of education .
8 In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers .
9 In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future .
10 This gives everyone much more confidence in the future .
11 It worked well , and gave me much more contact with my audience .
12 This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service .
13 Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn .
14 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Queen has set a shining example of steadfast service over four decades of momentous political and social change , and will he wish her many more years of a great and glorious reign ?
15 The main criterion by which all these forms of pedogenic modification may be distinguished is that they affect all parts of the bones and teeth more or less equally , so that the whole of the surface is altered , not just small parts of it .
16 To measure sincerity in weapons proved very difficult , and so , from time to time , the American delegation would fall back on the mantra of peace , peace to which only Iraq was the obstacle , peace in which all these obsessions about the latest arms and the best would be redundant .
17 Its all this talk about ladies who are fat , what about ladies who are thin who just can not put on weight
18 She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes .
19 ‘ Raising pupils awareness is especially important as so many young people are injured in their first few days at work . ’
20 Houck had personally followed the histories of two reactors in Missouri ( Callaway ) and Kansas ( Wolf Creek ) which were prototypes for Hinkley C. Both had cost three times their original budget — $3 billion apiece — and had been plagued with teething problems in their first few years of operation .
21 There is especially favourable treatment for partnerships in their first few years of trading and , similarly , special rules apply when a ‘ cessation ’ occurs .
22 The better arrangement would be to renegotiate the restraints to protect the goodwill which it is hoped will accrue to the new firms in their first few years of business after the demerger .
23 He half hoped she 'd bring back a burnt-offering , the way she had so often in their first few months of marriage , when she had deigned to cook for him .
24 In their first few months of training , they can give consideration to making their own arrangements if they so choose .
25 They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in .
26 Fifteen companies combined last week to make a single joint submission to the Object Management Group in its quest for Object Services , its first such Request For Technology , which closed on Friday with eight submissions representing some 25 companies .
27 Fifteen companies combined last week to make a single joint submission to the Object Management Group in its quest for Object Services , its first such Request For Technology ( UX No 420 ) .
28 In its first such action in the UK , the Earth First ! group attacked peat-cutting machinery and water pumps on Thorne and Hatfield Moors , causing an estimated £100,000 worth of damage .
29 Despite such " official " backing and aspirations , the DTB 's Bund contract only averaged 2,500 contracts per day , about one-tenth of LIFFE 's turnover , in its first few weeks of trading .
30 General Accident reduced its first half losses before tax from £105.2m to £21.2m .
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