Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 2 | It 's the one chance that members of the Ninety-Six club have each year to drive their classic cars the way they were intended … hard and fast . |
| 3 | What we are doing is providing information for perhaps clinicians to act on , we also in the future hope to develop the information we have into something useful , and in some cases the information we have already . |
| 4 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
| 5 | Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events . |
| 6 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 7 | In some places the path we followed was marked out by deep scratches in the rocks , made by the claws of countless rockhopper penguins who have followed the same traditional route for centuries . |
| 8 | Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days . |
| 9 | He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ . |
| 10 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 11 | … I think the better you are at public relations the better you can do your job . |
| 12 | Having flowers in the house is lovely , but if you buy fresh flowers every week it is rather expensive : artificial flower arrangements might be a good alternative . |
| 13 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 14 | For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten . |
| 15 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 16 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 17 | And they used to take about six loads a day you see . |
| 18 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
| 19 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
| 20 | However for many who live and/or work in such communities the picture he paints is recognisable . |
| 21 | There were no such thrills the day I visited the set of Dancing . |
| 22 | I have nervous breakdowns every time I see the Husayn twins ! ’ |
| 23 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 24 | But worst of all these tactical disabilities was the flanking fire that was crippling their frontal assaults the moment they debouched into open ground . |
| 25 | And erm so really three times a day I had to er make tea . |
| 26 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 27 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 28 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
| 29 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 30 | Commander Churchill-Coleman said : ‘ As always with the Provisional IRA when they commit these acts the information they gave was erroneous . |