Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nah listen 'ere — any more o' this an' you 'll all go back to Gaul an' eat bloody frogs ' legs — all right ? ’ |
| 2 | William Henry Irish , 31 , of Woodland Hill , Leeds , was yesterday committed to Durham Crown Court for trial , charged with handling stolen men 's suits worth more than £300,000 . |
| 3 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 4 | Great care should be taken in using real output per capita figures to compare different countries ' standards of living . |
| 5 | Nothing for us knocking each others ' doors at nights about midnight coming for a swim and we 'd all go down . |
| 6 | To facilitate international links between the public networks , efforts are being made to standardise different countries ' ISDNs . |
| 7 | Some editors decide whether the first set of comments have been met and send for fresh reports only for major revisions , whereas others seem to obtain fresh referees ' reports routinely . |
| 8 | Matthew Wauchope , sales director at Imago Systems , which supplies integrated human resource management applications for use on mainframes , minis and multi-user PCs to medium to large-size companies , also stresses the need for very functional systems that can be tailored to meet different users ' requirements . |
| 9 | The most sumptuous of all the decorations was undoubtedly a huge Chinese Ming-dynasty celadon porcelain vase embellished with elaborate and highly wrought ormolu mounts incorporating ring-toothed lions ' heads of around 1760 . |
| 10 | Streamlined trams provided separate drivers ' cabs , 1930s . |
| 11 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 12 | It is important to delineate these drugs ' mechanisms of action in decreasing urinary albumin excretion in diabetic patients because classic antihypertensive drugs reduce both the rate of progression of diabetic nephropathy and microalbuminuria in normotensive diabetic patients in the short term . |
| 13 | But that was no reason not to accept these women 's judgements . |
| 14 | British rulers have made collections of books down the ages , and the library portraits of the English kings Henry VII ( 1485–1509 ) , Henry VIII ( 1509–1547 ) and Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558–1603 ) acknowledge these monarchs ' contributions to the sixteenth-century Renaissance of learning in England . |
| 15 | It might seem obvious that , if one is studying word-meanings , one ought to find native speakers ' intuitions concerning the meanings of words the most informative . |
| 16 | The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death . |
| 17 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 18 | However , the question of housing does require more extended treatment , both for its centrality as a material resource in the pattern of life chances of black people and for its possible role in understanding black pupils ' achievements in British schools . |
| 19 | How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues . |
| 20 | Some organisations interview all candidates ' wives early in the selection process ; others invite only the wives of short-listed candidates into interview ; a few feel it unreasonable to call into question the intentions of potential expatriates ' wives . |
| 21 | Helen Bullock 's article on dads who are unable to cope has attracted many readers ' letters . |
| 22 | For more than a decade , Sellafield has been Western Europe 's biggest industrial construction site , employing 5,000 contractors ' employees in addition to its own staff of around 7,000 . |
| 23 | The political character of much of the union movement on the European continent also provoked a counter-response by the non-socialist forces in society , particularly the Catholic Church , which proceeded to establish rival workers ' organisations . |
| 24 | She dismisses hormonal explanations of sex differences because they relate poorly to behaviour , and criticizes cross-cultural studies ' attempts to establish the universality of sex differences for not taking full account of cultural variety . |
| 25 | Neighbours said they had repeatedly reported hearing children 's screams . |
| 26 | ‘ Optioning ’ , they call it ; nicking best-selling authors ' plot-lines we call it , but increasingly novels have formed the bedrock of Hollywood 's biggest grossing films . |
| 27 | In your Japanese Grand Prix report ( 28 October ) , you say Honda had won five constructors ' championships in the last 10 years . |
| 28 | He has twenty winners ' medals — more than any other player in the club 's history . |
| 29 | Holds open women 's evenings every Wednesday . |
| 30 | Such was the anticipation of a boy that the couple had n't considered any girls ' names . |