Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 2 | They pay in six per cent of their salary , why should they be debarred from saying that they own part of those funds . |
| 3 | Experience with an earlier version of comprehensive 16+ examination north of the border where the cutting edge of educational policy has already elevated modular accreditation into a major component of post-16 certification ( SED , 1983 ) suggests that the GCSE , like the Scottish Standard Grade , may already be obsolete , and that they hybrid offspring of the conjoining of the norm and criterion referencing pedigree that the search for subject and grade criteria represents will satisfy no one ( Munro , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | One defect was that it required proof of the likelihood of a breach of the peace as a result of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 5 | One of the reasons why this proposition was distasteful to many of Bruno 's contemporaries was that it deprived humanity of a privileged place in the cosmos . |
| 6 | The importance of Cockburn 's work was that it integrated studies of local political activity into this wider view of the capitalist state . |
| 7 | It is a pleasant road that has got trees on either side , I will admit that , but I can not allow anybody to say the loss of two trees , which will be replaced somewhere else , is of greater importance than he decent habitation of a group of human beings |
| 8 | Should God create another Eve and I another rib of , yet loss of thee would never from my heart . |
| 9 | Ben Kingsley plays Martin Boyns , a middle-aged engineer at the turn of the century who feels that life has passed him by , and his one chance of happiness is in marrying his longtime friend , Rose Sellars ( Kim Novak ) . |
| 10 | It was stipulated that there was to be 23 hundred pounds to the " Tunn " and five score and twelve pounds to the hundred … " the bank to be made clear of ore Twice every year at least a week before ye 29th Sept and ye 1st day of May … " |
| 11 | On our new ship Ecstasy , each restaurant seats 650 passengers and we two sittings of each meal at set meal times . |
| 12 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 13 | the , you 've got , yeah w if we and we both sort of jot down what we 've |
| 14 | Well if we genital dislocation of the hips |
| 15 | Her whole point in life is that people criticize her because she does erm she can only actually look after a very small percentage of the people in Calcutta who need help and they all sort of say , Well she does that bit but what about the rest of them ? |
| 16 | But er it was n't long after that there was another big bang on the platform and they all sort of turned tail and went away for their own safety . |
| 17 | Erm so if they this kind of erm poking fun at previous acquired affection . |
| 18 | and he this plate of peas |
| 19 | and it all sort of refers to that part . |
| 20 | Er in the nineteen seventies and eighties there was a long running campaign to get an equal rights amendment er which was sponsored largely by er women 's groups and er and er gay and lesbian groups er and they got almost there , they got two , I think two states short of getting a constitutional amendment and then something called Ronald Reagan happened and it all sort of fell apart . |
| 21 | So if he three apples of apples , he 'd have two lots like that . |
| 22 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |
| 23 | it does n't , but when he first sort of put it up , I thought oh crumbs look at that |