Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 2 | The equivalent questions for eighteen year olds ask about specific skills which young people have been shown to need ( and often to lack ) when they leave local authority accommodation to live independently ( Stein and Carey , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 4 | At a press conference , also yesterday , given by leaders of a loose coalition of anti-apartheid organisations known as the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , the point was restated that the political prisoners whose unconditional release Mr de Klerk announced on Tuesday — the exact day they will be out is not known yet — would take up their political activities under the banner of the ANC . |
| 5 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 6 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 7 | Some of those on the left have assumed that there is an inherent socialist majority in Britain which has failed to surface only because successive Labour governments , in pursuing a policy of managing rather than opposing capitalism , have never given that majority its political cue . |
| 8 | Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry , this is a remarkable achievement . |
| 9 | This is due to the number of distinct administrative hierarchies whose active co-operation is required , and whose officers frankly have other tasks of much greater priority and interest . |
| 10 | Our resources are limited , but we try to give as much aid as possible tot he nascent profession in these countries . |
| 11 | The cistern of the washdown design is mounted on the wall , and connected tot he floor-mounted pan by a short length of curved pipe called the flush bend . |
| 12 | ‘ I was upset over that telegram my beloved son sent . |
| 13 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 14 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 15 | A further major problem associated with the use of the network variable is that it is most readily operationalized to study speakers whose networks are of a relatively closeknit type and can not easily handle socially and geographically mobile speakers whose personal network ties are not predominantly dense or multiplex ; yet , such persons make up a substantial proportion of the population in a post-industrial society . |
| 16 | To reinforce the point the BTA is to spend £2.5 million telling foreigners what good value Britain now has to offer . |
| 17 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 18 | It was that bust-up which ruined team morale this season and contributed to Lancashire 's desperately poor season . |
| 19 | But perhaps the erm the simplest erm prognostic routes were suggested by the M R C working parties which general urology which was mentioned in the last presentation . |
| 20 | So , if you take out £7,500 over 180 months your monthly repayment at APR 21.5% variable will be £129.96 — and the total amount payable £23,392.80 . |
| 21 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 22 | In retirement Mr Hewitt is looking forward to having more time for reading , preferring biographies and works of historical interest , with French literature his main love . |
| 23 | This balance is important , since , for example , some accounts whose critical focus is the rise of the individual , private , property-owning self , almost appear to conspire with that reification of the self which they seek to criticize in contemporary culture , by isolating and concentrating on this single factor . |
| 24 | The return of women to the homefront to live in varying degrees of poverty has been paralleled by an intensification of family-centred propaganda to remind us that women are the ‘ natural ’ homemakers , and that in difficult and unsettled times our prime responsibility is to make sure that our men and our children and our dependent relatives are properly cared for . |
| 25 | Steve and his wife , Angela , have chosen to make one of the attractive four-bedroom , Farndale-style detached houses their future home . |
| 26 | I read with interest and some misgivings your Soviet Union issue ( Moscow Circus NI 190 ) . |
| 27 | There were a few houses whose wrought-iron balconies were crammed with plants : great pots of geraniums , full and dark , the flowers looking down at me like tiny faces , intently . |
| 28 | How can a cultural paradigm whose main principle is de-differentiation contribute to a political culture grounded in the apparently opposite principle of difference ? |
| 29 | On the right of the path Halling field is continued and when we get to the Plough there is a building shown behind the inn and this is most certainly the dwelling that gave this field its old name Burnt House field . |
| 30 | In this case her no-arbitrage futures price is S ( 1 + fr ) - D ( 1 + r ) = ( 2400 × 25 × 1.025 ) - ( 1000 × 1.05 ) = £60 450 . |