Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What do you feel you know the fact that that that quite a lot of erm well you were saying e you saying that quite a few quite a lot more coloured people live here
2 ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’
3 And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications .
4 And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking .
5 ‘ You and Corosini are wrong all down the line .
6 For example Hanson Plc ( formerly Hanson Trust ) made two scrip issues during the period 1985 88 when the market price was sustained above 300p .
7 But this pleased neither the defence ministry nor the navy who pointed out that it would merely sail back again .
8 Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically .
9 The pervading aura of peace was interrupted only in the early 1870s when an army of men carved a railway throughout its length , since when an undisturbed tranquillity has prevailed .
10 The Broadisland Gathering is turning the clock back to the early 1600s when the area was settled by Scots Lowlanders .
11 So far we 've seen the highlights of Central News up to the end of nineteen eighty-eight when the programme was broadcast from Birmingham .
12 The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics .
13 In the early 1970s when the idea of JET was first conceived , the best recorded value fell short by a factor of 25 000 ; by 1990 JET was within a factor Of 20 .
14 Advertising was practically never used , even in the early 1970s when the use of search by companies was much less widespread .
15 Space-time is remarkably rigid , so that the amplitude of the strain is only 10 18 when the pulse from a supernova collapse at the centre of the Galaxy reaches the Earth .
16 He had distracted attention from the incident by crediting Joseph with the killing of the fawn arid therefore the capture of the expedition 's first prize , since the senator had decided they should collect a group of muntjac .
17 In the other seat , the sede nobile , sits his properly lordly superior certainly a duke in previous incarnations , certainly at least an Oscar-winner now , wearing a glorious cape or velvet cloak and grandly gesturing as the boat disappears behind the Dogana .
18 As Royal Mail hit the second last hard the fairy-tale result seemed inevitable .
19 Gates had been under pressure to retire since early 1990 when a group of his officers were filmed beating a black motorist Rodney King .
20 A more recent reappraisal took place in the early 1980s when the decision was taken to shed the foods side of the business and concentrate on the confectionery and soft drinks divisions .
21 The phenomenon of the management buy-out first emerged in Britain in the early 1980s when the economy was in deep recession .
22 In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases .
23 The data presented in Table 2 show that the addition of distamycin produces a very similar increase in T m values for both duplex 1 and duplex 4 i.e. the drug exerts a very similar stabilising effect on both duplexes .
24 It is not at all clear how the testator 's intentions are to be discovered ; the force of the word maxime may be to suggest that there is a presumption that in normal circumstances the heir will redeem .
25 As Table 3.22 shows , entitlement to unemployment benefit among male workers decreased substantially during the late 1970s when the rate of unemployment was high .
26 I mean basically he 's put that into account and then it 's how much will they need on top of that so he total that he would need would be three hundred and seventy thousand pounds of which there is a hundred seventy thousand so the shortfall 's twenty thousand , or two hundred thousand .
27 No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played .
28 Thirty five years later servicemen who were forced to witness the test say they are still suffering physical and mental side-effects.So far the government has consistently denied a positive link between the two .
29 Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) .
30 Belau 's economy , already adversely affected by debts arising from the Aimeluk power station constructed in the early 1980s and from a delay in US aid consequent upon the compact impasse , suffered a further setback in late 1990 when the territory was severely damaged by Typhoon " Mike " .
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