Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Vologsky 's squadron , each individual pilot fell due for such a flight every twelve days on the rota system . |
| 2 | Although the philosophical climate in the United Kingdom is right for such a development and the epidemiological background is well established , much more laboratory work is needed on the molecular genetics , enzyme function , gene transfer to human liver cells , and relevant liver cell biology if patients in the United Kingdom are to benefit from any advances which may occur . |
| 3 | Surely it is treacherous to blame the palaces of the rich for all the blood spilt on battlefields ? |
| 4 | Although it is possible for such a person to claim community charge benefit during that time , thus reducing his or her liability by up to 80 per cent. , we accept that the administrative burden imposed on both the individual and the charging authorities is unnecessarily heavy . |
| 5 | In the absence of an animal , or even in addition to it , it is quite possible that some form of comfort was found at a particular place or sanctuary , and even within the minute span of evolutionary time measured by a single generation , it is possible for such a retreat to have become a very special place for a whole family , or even a tribe . |
| 6 | Our simulations indicate that , although it is possible for such an iron object to reproduce the Tunguska event , an encounter speed in the range 30–40kms -1 is required . |
| 7 | Here I come , the great man himself , the master of the house , the wage-earner , the one who makes it possible for all the rest of you to live so well ! |
| 8 | These negative forces are all around us , presently very tangible and running rampant for all the world to see as our planet appears to enter its grand finale . |
| 9 | Once in one of these classes one year I had a Jewish student got up and got very upset during such a class as this and stomped out and then slammed the door er which I was rather sorry about because erm I think he was being a little bit erm too sensitive because the person who was giving the paper said anything anyway erm , but warrant that , but he was just offended of the idea that anybody could suggest that Moses was n't Jewish , and of course |
| 10 | It is quite normal for such a profit definition to extend to several pages . |
| 11 | Starting in one corner , Helen began to lift garments from pegs and drop them on the floor in a pile — a mack of her father 's , something of Edward 's not worn within living memory , a very ancient corduroy jacket of Dorothy 's , also unused for many a year . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry for all the nonsense , I 'm appallingly ashamed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Dana is very sorry for all the trouble she has caused and wants me to forgive her . ’ |
| 14 | Will still laughed at people in his plays , but he also felt sorry for them — sorry for all the world , good and bad , rich and poor , young and old . |
| 15 | I know they are all going to get a great deal out of this experience , I am deeply grateful for all the help that is being given them , they have had such a worrying time , I do not think one of them could have had a holiday this year without help , but I have faith to think it will be a good investment for the WEA . |
| 16 | Scotland has had its full share of the ‘ cake ’ and I would imagine that the National Trust for Scotland is grateful for all the help it has received . |
| 17 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 18 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 19 | Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope you 're grateful for all the trouble I 've just gone to , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry about that the room , erm , okay the six pads that you 've got . |
| 23 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 24 | Oh I 've done that for many a year |
| 25 | 2 That for such an Education , the only basis possible is English . |
| 26 | though , is that for all the skill of the anti-missile scientists , we can not underestimate the inventiveness of the missile makers . |
| 27 | ‘ They are never children , ’ he answered , ‘ that let themselves be photographed like that for all the world to see . ’ |
| 28 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 29 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 30 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |