Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [det] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 We can not all , as it already been emphasised by the last speaker we may not all be able to do the same things we have not all got the same gifts or the same responsibilities er within the church but you all have the same responsibilities in this light of God .
2 There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward .
3 It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way .
4 Then came the uncomfortable news that the All Blacks ' opposition in Treviso would involve some South African players .
5 Although all the reported decisions refer to article 10 , I conceive that the same arguments mutatis mutandis must apply to article 19 .
6 And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband .
7 The juvenile courts also had powers to place children in care , and the former children 's departments had to receive children in need of care and protection and find them substitute homes .
8 Two contentious issues are the cost of training to managers and the same managers ' grasp of systems ( or the lack of it ) .
9 Yet the two earliest recordings of the movement , by the celebrated disciples Willem Mengelberg ( 1926 ) and Bruno Walter ( 1938 ) , average seven and a half minutes ' duration .
10 Perhaps we 'd say " Three and a half minutes ' .
11 I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er
12 At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road .
13 This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged .
14 The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining .
15 Yeah , well , no it 's a one day course then I 've got four and a half things af , you know follow on
16 Er , what we can do If the figures are worth eleven and a half days erm seventeen , seventeen days .
17 At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses .
18 We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts .
19 Well only in the last er two years I would think , perhaps two and a half years er had they really started putting double plugs in everywhere instead of single plugs
20 This would render fruitless two and a half years ' negotiations between LAG and BP Coal leaving LAG to start from scratch with a new company .
21 In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature .
22 AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management .
23 Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody .
24 She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her .
25 Let's not forget that even if no more children 's books were published at all , each year would still see the arrival of a new cohort of children and their parents and grandparents , who for the first time start to contemplate buying books which are relevant for a child of that age .
26 Their reward was an encounter against New Zealand , but the All Blacks ' strength and experience proved too much for the Koreans as they went down 14–0 .
27 After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number .
28 After a few moments ' silence Kopyion shrugged his shoulders and walked off , down the stairs .
29 Wealthy ladies , doing a little charitable slumming , as well as a few shopkeepers ' wives , bought the pretty baby clothes , and the doll she had dressed went for a fabulous price , to be given to some little girl more fortunate than those for whom the money was being raised .
30 They borrow from the banks for as little as a few hours ' notice of recall by the banks ( money at call ) , and lend to the government , local authorities and firms for typically three months ( bills of exchange ) .
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