Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the .
2 In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction .
3 First , undecidability and paradox are the basis of the ‘ new sciences ’ which have made possible the technological innovations we currently enjoy , and written narrative is uniquely suited to accommodating logically impossible situations and mixing heterogeneous ontological postulates .
4 This procedure can suggest a replacement for about half the genuine miskeyings it receives , and the replacement is usually right ( although it does suggest " teacher " for " Thacher " ) .
5 Have to oh shit I du n no I ca n't remember half the fucking conversations I had .
6 When you 've been through this a few times you 'll
7 Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe .
8 Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe .
9 We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over .
10 The difference between having a good time and a bad time is so minimal it 's unbelievable , but this , with three points for a win , situation it makes it so hard to say well we 're a bottom side , we 're a top side , all of a sudden in half a dozen games we could be like a top side .
11 The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours .
12 ‘ Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember , ’ said Rosalind Russell , ‘ and they 'll leave the theatre happy . ’
13 Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket .
14 After half a dozen tries I was n't cold any more .
15 You 're on the move every three every three weeks you get to know another group of people .
16 ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same .
17 ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old .
18 All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind .
19 You love me — even after all the terrible things I 've done ?
20 ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you .
21 May I borrow some space in your magazine to say a big thank you for all the good wishes we have received in connection with the Presidency of the Baptist Union of Scotland ?
22 Remember all the good times you shared . ’
23 ‘ Place needs all the good teachers it can get , from what I can gather , ’ said Major Tilney .
24 After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected .
25 All the good things he does are not always appreciated by outsiders and he 'll captain the team at Leeds .
26 Well , you can start by trying to live each day to the full ; cram in all the good things you can .
27 You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch .
28 I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us …
29 In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include .
30 We 're not saying that that er has been done er through all the cheap channels I do n't blame him probably do the same .
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