Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
| 2 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 3 | I have the impression that the arts should be first and foremost about developing pupils ' autonomy , not only in terms of the artistic skills which were being achieved , but also in valuing the vital quality of independent thinking . |
| 4 | 2 After 2 days ' absence , supervisor should again try to make contact by telephoning or going to the person 's house . |
| 5 | Erm but some of these childrens ' addresses that we 've had at St Paul 's they are very interesting and you get something out of them . |
| 6 | Some of these rats ' calls may be heard by dogs , which can detect frequencies up to 40 000 hertz , while that expert mouser , the cat , can hear sounds as high as 70 000 hertz . |
| 7 | Giardini , though generous with other promoters ' money ( he was responsible for doubling the fees paid to orchestral players ) , was unscrupulous and devious as an impresario . |
| 8 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 9 | In writing this course I have found it necessary to do this in a way which is somewhat different from other writers ' proposals . |
| 10 | So , although we are seeking approval now , for the whole total , we will in fact pay half in six months ' time er as is normal procedure on , on our water bills . |
| 11 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 12 | Others are interested in storming insurers ' broader domain . |
| 13 | That can not excuse them , however , and the FA will probably be interested in both teams ' excuses . |
| 14 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 15 | They also point out that the excessive amounts of sugar in some brands could also be harmful to older babies ' teeth . |
| 16 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 17 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 18 | a compassionate employer — compassionate by those days ' standards , not by today 's standards . |
| 19 | Alternatively , in some countries previously without a daily paper it has been the government which has started one : there would probably be no daily newspaper in the Central African Republic , Botswana , Niger , Mauritania or Chad had each of these countries ' governments not decided to finance one . |
| 20 | If it wins , other non-banks , such as General Motors ' finance arm and the Bell telephone companies , are likely to launch their own Visa cards . |
| 21 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 22 | These may include events organised by the school such as regular parents ' evenings , careers evenings , prize-givings , Compact meetings or socials . |
| 23 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 24 | Rather than recognizing our feelings there is a tendency to submerge them beneath suitably comfortable ideas about the nature of old age , such as older relatives ' diminishing needs , lower expectations and contentment with the loneliness and idleness of their lives . |
| 25 | The company has concocted new gimmicks such as cut-price Mothers ' Day calls or new services such as call-blocking facilities for single women . |
| 26 | A variable that has three categories ( such as three parties ' share of the total vote ) can be represented on triangular graph paper . |
| 27 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |
| 28 | We humans lay out our highways and byways in our fashion and each species does so in theirs , and we mostly remain unaware of each others ' very own and personal world of perception . |
| 29 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 30 | The CARAT ( Cargo Agents Reservation and Air Waybill issuance and Tracking system ) is now on-line to nearly 100 of British Airways ' freight forwarding customers , enabling them to book shipments and track their cargo all over the world without needing to pick a telephone . |