Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is ‘ the topic ’ of ( 6 ) — little Richard or his Toronto school or his Newfie jokes , etc. ; and is he , this system or the other players the topic of ( 7 ) ? |
| 2 | Such an approach might begin by adopting Goffman 's ( 1976 ) distinction between systems-constraints and ritual-constraints , where the first labels the ingredients essential to sustaining any kind of systematic interweaving of actions by more than one party , and the second those ingredients that , while not essential to the maintaining of interaction , are nevertheless typical of it they are , if one likes , the social dimensions of interaction . |
| 3 | The bell usually tolls for one of the big championship teams on cup day … this is cricket 's FA Cup … where the small teams the non leaguers get a chance to take on the big boys … the pros … |
| 4 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 5 | Men in the West seem to fear this dichotomy , although it is not a separation but more a reorganisation of life so that the spiritual gains the most important part and the rest of life falls into place beneath . |
| 6 | It may be that the only times the parents show joint concern is when the child misbehaves and so the child continues to be difficult as it keeps the family together . |
| 7 | Hari knew that the two shillings a week would be crippling unless Edward Morris lived up to his promise of bringing in extra business . |
| 8 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 9 | Immediately a whirlwind of change ripped through Althorp as the new mistress endeavoured to turn the family home into a paying proposition so that the awesome debts the new Earl had taken on could be paid off . |
| 10 | At the very first meeting in the Tehran Hilton , renamed the Independence , one of the Iranians ( ’ a rug merchant ’ ) complained that the spare parts the Americans had brought were second-hand . |
| 11 | He knew that the more strings an actor had to his bow , the wider the possibilities there were open to him . |
| 12 | IT 'S a myth that the three words a woman most likes to hear are ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 13 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 14 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
| 15 | Poor dear Hugh 's face was somehow much less vivid than the tall hennins a married lady could wear , that gave her extra height . |
| 16 | In one respect , however , the government 's stated intention was noticeably frustrated ; only 38 appointments to District General Manager ( DGM ) posts were made from outside the NHS , and many of these were from the armed forces rather than the private businesses the government wished to tap . |
| 17 | If it does come on stream , each theatre would be able to carry out roughly ten per cent more operations than the 1930s theatres the suite will replace . |
| 18 | He had chosen it as a desperate , populist issue , yet the audience was even cooler than the unenthusiastic crowds the embattled Democrat had faced elsewhere . |
| 19 | While appreciating better than the French journalists the improbability of direct plagiarism , English mathematicians were nonetheless indignant at the way in which the Academy had treated Smith . |
| 20 | The civil division of the Order of the Bath is the jealously guarded preserve of the home civil service , so that every six months a new crop of bureaucrats begin making their way from Companion of the Bath to Knight Commander or Dame Commander to Knight Grand Cross . |
| 21 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
| 22 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 23 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
| 24 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
| 25 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 26 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 27 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |
| 28 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 29 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 30 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |