Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty minutes later shareholders at the annual meeting of United 's parent company were being assured by chairman Professor Roland Smith that cash was available any time Alex Ferguson wanted it — but no mention of the fiasco that had scorched the airwaves a short time before . |
| 2 | In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time . |
| 3 | the Dutch workplace is truly multilingual ; the workforce at Gebr , Meijer , for example , is already considered virtually bilingual in Dutch and German ( 70% understand German ; 20% speak it ) whilst 20% of all verbal communication on the shop floor is a mixture of languages where English forms approximately 20% of all dialogue — apparently because computer software is American . |
| 4 | The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision . |
| 5 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 6 | Caernarfon , Conwy , Beaumaris , Harlech , Flint and Denbigh … all have their still-powerful grey-stoned castles where echoes of military might still abound . |
| 7 | After a week they were listed as missing and some months later traces of blood were found at their home at St Brelade . |
| 8 | In some respects however lack of acceptability is desirable . |
| 9 | Initially it was not entirely clear how they , or other British units further west along the frontier , should be expected to respond if the Croats made a concerted advance further into Austria . |
| 10 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 11 | There are relatively few circumstances when examination of a book by a librarian can make any significant difference to whether or not the book should be selected for a library — especially so since the biggest consumers of approval collections are public libraries , who do not claim to be experts in any particular field . |
| 12 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |
| 13 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 14 | Coincidentally a few days later reporters of the tabloid press began to gather outside his flat , questioning him every time he entered or left . |
| 15 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 16 | A few places there size of house . |
| 17 | The great stations stand , if they do still stand , as towering monuments to that belief , public meeting-places where faith in the perfectibility of man by his own ingenuity and the blessing of a divine providence was daily affirmed . |
| 18 | So , according to the laws of Leviticus , women were forbidden to enter the Temple or touch any hallowed thing during their times of menstrual uncleanness , whilst with regard to childbirth they were similarly removed from cultic activity , this time for forty days following delivery of a boy and significantly eighty days after that of a girl . |
| 19 | The old committees where clergymen of various denominations talked in polysyllables to each other 's waistcoats were given a sudden strength as they touched the aspirations of the peoples . |
| 20 | 700 farmers back protest over ‘ lunatic ’ beef scheme |
| 21 | This was sent to every house not just to members of St Peter 's church and dealt with general social topics e.g. place of work , type of work , size of household etc . |
| 22 | In popular terms more responsibility for Britain 's lack of international competitiveness has been laid at the door of trade unions than at that of management ; an attitude strongly encouraged by the high political profile which unions have adopted since 1945 . |
| 23 | There would appear to be few situations when access to the premises at high level would be of value or desirable in emergencies . |
| 24 | I will expand on what I mean by discourse in Chapter 10 but here it is sufficient to say that ‘ discourse ’ refers to the structured features of cultural processes when groups of signs become signifying elements in themselves . |
| 25 | Inevitably there will be some instances where installation in LIFESPAN is required urgently . |
| 26 | Finally , please do n't forget that we are more than happy to accept your premium payments over £50 in instalments . |
| 27 | Authorities are ‘ strongly urged … to be receptive to imaginative and innovative designs ’ and developers ‘ encouraged to be bold yet flexible ’ , whereas the original talked in terms of ‘ caution on some issues where matters of safety or the risk of increased expenditure on maintenance may be involved ’ . |
| 28 | If your organisation is involved in foreign markets then reaction in these countries would also be important . |
| 29 | Out of a population of 120,000 , 22,000 are over 65 , though in some towns almost 40% of the population are over 65 ! |
| 30 | Children in the village will be wearing their smartest outfits tomorrow night for a disco in the school . |