Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall ever remember the two or three hours conversation I had with him that beautiful May morning he died , before I woke the rest of the family . |
| 2 | And do n't forget , in two or three years time your son would be leaving home anyway , so his decision would seem to be a practical one . |
| 3 | And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived . |
| 4 | IT , OT and CTT policies do not include a ‘ more specifically insured ’ exclusion so even if an expensive ring for example , which may be lost or stolen , is separately insured under a Home or All Risks policy we can still only deal with this on an independent liability basis . |
| 5 | At 2 or 3 hours notice we may have to go to Manchester ; the women ca n't do that . |
| 6 | So , I mean , say in about three or four years time you you 'd have the same level of cover |
| 7 | I believe in er three or four years time I will need a a table er twice the size of that for examples of the of of the material . |
| 8 | that in one or two weeks time I 'm going to be thin I 'm going to be slightly mixed up . |
| 9 | As I have shown above , there is a strong tendency in the organization to dismiss the social sciences , and it therefore seems fair to suggest that any police officer who elects to read for a degree in that discipline is knowingly placing himself into a position of outsider . |
| 10 | We are seeking to develop and Advanced Courses structure which is more flexible and responsive and which contributes to major objectives of wider access , credit transfer and articulation . |
| 11 | In fairness to this young and skilful Victorians side they just did n't count yesterday as Randalstown were a class apart . |
| 12 | Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done . |
| 13 | Jordi Savall seems to have acquired a habit of strewing gold wherever he treads , and these performances buoy his reputation still further . |
| 14 | The Forum also revealed it was proposing Mr Jan Czarnogursky , the prominent Slovak lawyer and human rights activist who only last month under the old regime was put on trial , for the post of prime minister or first deputy prime minister . |
| 15 | As did his experience of environmental concerns as head of safety branch and then of environmental and medical sciences division which , as he remembers , ‘ coincided with the great upswing of interest in the environment ’ . |
| 16 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
| 17 | About a between ten and fifteen minutes drive I suppose . |
| 18 | About erm , between ten and fifteen minutes drive I suppose , ten minutes perhaps . |
| 19 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 20 | It is important to distinguish between systems analysis which can mathematically optimize some attribute of the links within and between systems , and General Systems Theory which purports that all systems can be understood by the application of systems principles . |
| 21 | The Magistrates Association mounted a successful campaign against the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act which sought to replace courtroom hearings for young people with ‘ welfare dispositions ’ . |
| 22 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 23 | As head of the Near East , South Asian and African Affairs Bureau he inherited ( so he later claimed ) little in the way of policy for a region where American involvement had been intermittent or localized . |
| 24 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |
| 25 | The idea may defy the commonly accepted principles of the art of conjuring but fifty years age there was a small and enthusiastic group of nude conjurors . |
| 26 | It is unnecessarily unnerving to be waiting your turn while potential workmates eye you up and down . |