Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I 've not got a prawn and cocktail or them little tiny fish nanny had . |
| 2 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 3 | On that matter I stand where my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) stood on 24 May 1971 . |
| 4 | There are exceptional circumstances , such as my total castration or my taking vows as a monk , where my only residual fitness is that which accrues to me through my assistances to relatives . |
| 5 | We talked about the Dublin Review , where my Basic English article had been published , and referred to a characteristically splenetic article by Montgomery Belgion which had also appeared in that journal . |
| 6 | ‘ And I thought it was those rats or my silly old brain and all the time it was you , young man . ’ |
| 7 | Despite their lack of formal education and training , they can afford to travel to overseas matches where their crude moral values are reflected in ‘ nationalistic aggression ’ towards foreign fans . |
| 8 | But , as Spenser 's discussion of the Old English going native in A View of the Present State of Ireland reveals , the destructive interior elements when placed in an environment where their exterior corresponding elements are present may gain possession of a potentially good individual or group and bring about degeneracy . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 10 | Nor should they be put off by roads which have signposts that are positively misleading , or which some naughty boys have turned round so that they point in totally the wrong direction . |
| 11 | Minor niggles like how these apparently penniless youngsters can afford hotel rooms every night , or their blatant film-set apartment , are never explained . |
| 12 | Old ‘ n ’ new mix just right Del Amitri : Middlesbrough Town Hall IT 'S been a while since Del Amitri toured and with current single Always The Last To Know nudging it 's way up the charts , I was pleased to see that the band have n't lost either their raw edge or their well developed sense of humour . |
| 13 | The same is true , in addition , of some of the examples considered in the first part of this chapter : the cities of the Roman empire valued the important temples and buildings in their city rather more than , say , the sources of their agricultural wealth or their other important industries such as marble quarries , pottery or metalworking . |
| 14 | This may be the fact of their having been enacted by a specific body , or their long customary practice , or their relation to judicial decisions . |
| 15 | Most of these areas were urban centres on the coast or their immediate rural hinterlands , and the remainder were small inland towns . |
| 16 | Gliding ceaselessly on stiffly held wings , they soared and swooped , appearing alternately black or white as they turned their dark backs or their shining white underparts . |
| 17 | The food , coming from a spotless galley , we ate fearlessly : an agreeable mixture of English and Egyptian , while the drink was , for most of us , Egyptian beer or their resinated white wine . |
| 18 | But one attractive possibility is that it is similar to the normal mechanism used in eyes , which depends on the interaction of light with substances called rhodopsins , or their close chemical relatives , the porohyropsins . |
| 19 | The Scuttlers in their clogs and fustian would no doubt look somewhat dowdy alongside modern youth in their crease-proof , sta-prest trousers , their swinging blue jeans , or their body-hugging drip-dry shirts . |
| 20 | ‘ They wo n't stop Labour 's worst excesses or their disastrous economic plans , ’ Mr Hurd said . |
| 21 | ‘ They wo n't stop Labour 's worst excesses or their disastrous economic plans . |
| 22 | Whether by dint of their boundless imagination or their unquestioned musical integrity , the Purcell Quartet continues to win the admiration of listeners . |
| 23 | We had intended to ask participants in our workshop to consider what the major constructive influences on their own teaching had been , whether training at college , advice from colleagues , intuitions from pupils or their own previous experience as learners . |
| 24 | They could focus on their wider family , or their spouse , or a continuing job , or a social cause or hobby , or their own physical health . |
| 25 | or their last five guineas |
| 26 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 27 | We will pay the injured person or his or her appointed legal representative . |
| 28 | We will pay the injured person or his or her appointed legal representative . |
| 29 | bodily injury caused by violent accidental external and visible means the Corporation will pay to such injured person or to his or her legal personal representatives provided such injury shall solely and independently of any other cause result within three calendar months of the accident in |
| 30 | But it was n't just her eating habits that kept Jess 's eyes riveted , or her extraordinary white wig that rose to a height of two feet or more and was decorated with bunches of false cherries and violets — it was the way she conducted herself . |