Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " 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 | Previously to T N T Dave was in the steel industry , and he worked in that for thirty years er , doing , and one or two other things , one of which was G K N , that 's it . |
| 4 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 5 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Anyway , a machine was then produced by the Peace Corps Gift-In-Kind ( per my solicitation ) and another through Christian Children 's Fund . |
| 8 | Being 18 , I was too old for many children 's homes and too young for adult residential homes . |
| 9 | 2 After 2 days ' absence , supervisor should again try to make contact by telephoning or going to the person 's house . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well , my son Andrew was involved with some of these discussions erm What I did n't learn firsthand , myself , I learnt secondhand from him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Does he realise that some of these homes er are perhaps have only half their beds full which means that there are vulnerable people there , uncertain as to whether their home , their only home is going to remain er in existence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 16 | So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that . |
| 17 | In writing this course I have found it necessary to do this in a way which is somewhat different from other writers ' proposals . |
| 18 | There is no evidence that the laws are different in the past than they are today , that they 're different in different places erm , but one can investigate the possibility . |
| 19 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 22 | Others are interested in storming insurers ' broader domain . |
| 23 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 24 | That can not excuse them , however , and the FA will probably be interested in both teams ' excuses . |
| 25 | This offers the best hope because in the end we are not interested in organizational differences per se , but in those differences which affect accounting . |
| 26 | That company going out of business , erm because er large scale government subsidization erm is , is so prevalent in developing countries er the a lot of the government 's resource 's being spent on what are inefficient or obsolete industries . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They also point out that the excessive amounts of sugar in some brands could also be harmful to older babies ' teeth . |
| 29 | 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 ] . |
| 30 | 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 ] . |