Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
2 | well I 'm a bit puzzled why , why you want to know all this and you think because I have n't given , given a good benefit that 's why a good temporary benefit , that 's why I 'm puzzled , say well let me just take you back to why I 'm h why I 'm here , let me get out of our meeting you 're gon na find this extremely valuable , perhaps for the first half we will spend time looking at your financial put you on the path to achieve financial . |
3 | For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery . |
4 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
5 | If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between . |
6 | For the cash-happy Eighties she absconded to 57th Street . |
7 | During the early sixties they happily cruised the Windward Islands , revelling in some 30 tranquil anchorages . |
8 | During the early 1980s I was engaged in a re-study of a co-educational Roman Catholic comprehensive school that I called Bishop McGregor School . |
9 | During the late 1620s he lived in the town , acting as legal adviser to the corporation and to local gentry families , such as the Drydens and the Knightleys . |
10 | During the late sixties he painted portraits of a number of distinguished folk , and , here , for good measure , are John Betjeman , before he became Poet Laureate , David Jacobs and Harry Secombe . |
11 | During the late 1960s I had asked the Civil Aviation Flying Unit ( CAFU ) to connect the pilot 's boom microphones in one of their HS 125 aircraft to a domestic tape recorder to see whether an acceptable quality of recording could be achieved . |
12 | Faulting is therefore mostly of Jurassic age although during the late Cretaceous it formed the locus for strong inversion and fault-block readjustment . |
13 | Even though people are perceiving what I 'm doing now as the sexy new me , I just feel like it 's more … me . ’ |
14 | Funny thing that , eleventh November has always been , I docked at Liverpool coming back from North Africa on the eleventh on the Good Friday I docked there , no , I 'd , I , no , no I docked at Liverpool coming back from India , that was about eh the eleventh we sailed from Bombay , that was about the twenty fourth I think . |
15 | Well in fact it , it it has in fact gone full circle because through the nineteen fifties you went through to co-ops to collectives to communes which lasted through to nineteen seventy eight , the communes were then disbanded and you 're back , now , after reform which took very much system . |
16 | He went and denounced the wicked city , saying that like all other wicked cities of the Eastern Mediterranean it was about to be annihilated . |
17 | After the threats of the early '80s we may well have relaxed a bit . |
18 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
19 | Prior to the announcement of the additional two it had been estimated that the total capital cost of the 26 new prisons would be 870 million at an average cost per place of 69,200 . |
20 | That letter to Sixsmith was but one of the many dozens he had penned . |
21 | I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’ |
22 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
23 | If we move to oil well our oil business obviously operates in a cycle different to our publishing businesses and er , at the end of the first half it had record sales and profits fifteen percent ahead in dollar terms ten percent ahead in , in sterling terms which may surprise you slightly , but I think James probably will talk about that later . |
24 | Football obviously is the big one , so out of the two hundred you 'll probably get something like eighty footballers and then out of the other five sports that we 're going to host erm we will split them accordingly . |
25 | On the strength of the two latter he was awarded a doctorate by Jena University in 1860 . |
26 | For the election of the other four you will be at the mercy of other people 's votes . |
27 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
28 | Until the ‘ troubles ’ of the late 1960s it studiously refused to do so . |
29 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
30 | The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the five million we 've come up with so far ) . |