Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [det] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The NSF Council affirmed on Jan. 3 that the former regime 's prohibition on foreign borrowing was being dropped in order to finance economic recovery . |
| 4 | Then came the uncomfortable news that the All Blacks ' opposition in Treviso would involve some South African players . |
| 5 | Marginally more credible than the same label 's Oceanic , they 're still hugely annoying on the appalling ‘ Startouchers ’ . |
| 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 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 8 | T-shirt printing is a successful sideline , and the former school 's second classroom is to be converted into a gallery . |
| 9 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 10 | Chief scout Barrie Geldart watched Reading in November and the former Queen 's Park Rangers player completed the dossier after watching the 1–1 draw at Brisbane Road . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His hopes seemed justified when on 17 April 1967 three lieutenants led a Reconnaissance Squadron of the army to seize the radio station and the former president 's house . |
| 13 | The only important examples are the two-week stoppage over differentials by ASLEF in 1955 , and the same union 's two-week strike in the summer of 1982 ( following a series of short strikes in January and February ) over flexible rostering . |
| 14 | Two contentious issues are the cost of training to managers and the same managers ' grasp of systems ( or the lack of it ) . |
| 15 | " Spring tide , seven and a half hour 's ebb , low tide at 12 . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps we 'd say " Three and a half minutes ' . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And then certainly in two and a half year 's time , a hundred and seventy million pounds is being spent by Water er putting in a new sewage station . |
| 22 | ‘ Not bad for one and a half day 's work , ’ he said smugly . |
| 23 | erm the the order which one , one I concern , maybe we can discuss if to , if , if the defendants were prepared to undertake to erm provide any as to instruct within twenty eight days from today , the matter should be list on and this convention on a Friday , Friday in about two or two and a half month 's time from now , which will take us in the next term , I , I beg a suggestion |
| 24 | for each year of employment between the ages of 41 and 65 one and a half week 's pay ; |
| 25 | The basic award for each employee is calculated as one and a half week 's pay for each year of continuous employment over the age of 41 , one week 's pay for each such year between the ages of 22 and 40 , and half a week 's pay for each year between the ages of 18 and 21 . |
| 26 | The payment is calculated as one and a half week 's pay for each year of continuous employment over the age of 40 up to 65 for a man and 60 for a woman , one week 's pay for each year between the ages of 22 and 40 , and half a week 's pay for each year between the ages of 18 and 21 . |
| 27 | At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |