Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Annual Fee is due each year on enrolment . |
| 2 | However , you 're right that contact with dog dirt should be minimised . |
| 3 | It 's only right that Toad Of Toad Hall , together with the rest of his entourage from Wind In The Willows , should be reincarnated by the Thames in Oxfordshire : that 's where they were born , and that 's where they probably still live in the hearts and minds of all who grew up with them . |
| 4 | But this approach seems to me to contain difficulties of its own , not the least being that each object of knowledge is knowable in more than one of the different ways . |
| 5 | you know , because they do n't know what their right are with And you know , I think places like the law centre , which fight for the rights of people in , you know to develop that that kind of service for people . |
| 6 | we had that that kind of thing . |
| 7 | That that kind of thing . |
| 8 | Er how was that done and how were they handed out and that that kind of thing ? |
| 9 | That that type of idea . |
| 10 | that that type of thing . |
| 11 | Well can you put that that tine of biscuits away . |
| 12 | Yes , erm , there are very few companies actually offering that that sort of cover . |
| 13 | I think it will affect working women , or in fact anybody working , both directly and indirectly , and in fact the whole public indirectly , in that that sort of facility , to be able to shop , as it were , at home , will be extremely convenient and so will a facility that reminds you when things are due — a sort of , you know , household secretary really that can keep a check . |
| 14 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |
| 15 | In Table 2.3 each form of plate boundary is classified F according to the type of interacting lithosphere involved . |
| 16 | Cos their sizes all got thirty six thirty seven thirty eight that kind of thing . |
| 17 | ‘ We realized that , lyrically , we had to be more specific this time in terms of our politics . |
| 18 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 19 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 20 | Cats that lie down on grass soaked in weed-killer and then fastidiously lick their fur clean will ingest this type of poison with alarming ease . |
| 21 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 22 | This is a working distinction , to make possible some variety of approach to the question of the effective social relations of culture . |
| 23 | WALES 'S rugby players will get £2,000 each this season from sponsorship money paid into their trust fund , writes Tom Lyons . |
| 24 | Is that some kind of fertiliser ? ’ |
| 25 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 26 | That some form of religion is essential to human life is indisputable but , to use blind faith instilled since birth , to sustain conflict and hatred is intolerable . |
| 27 | Was n't that some sort of quotation ? |
| 28 | Is that some sort of joke ? ’ |
| 29 | I came back at about eight this morning in time to get his breakfast and found the dog outside the back door , whining . ’ |
| 30 | The incident , which took place on 3 March , was discussed in private this week by members of Nithsdale District Council in Dumfries . |