Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 2 | To avoid confusion between the different arrows the keys ' names are used in the Guide instead of their symbols , except in the case of the four arrowed direction keys , where both are given . |
| 3 | The Dickens study reported that 55 per cent of applicants and 67 per cent of respondents were represented , though in the remaining cases the companies ' representatives ' status could not be readily identified ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks . |
| 5 | Justin 's pupil Tatian from Mesopotamia developed with a sarcastic pen the philosophers ' dependence on Moses , which he argued with elaborate synchronisms from ancient chroniclers proving the priority of Moses . |
| 6 | There are individual deals the players ' company has no control over . |
| 7 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 8 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 9 | In late afternoon an orang-utans ' tea party was held on top of a hill 400 ft ( 120 m ) above the station . |
| 10 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 11 | However in the present case the defendants ' contractual entitlement corresponds , in our view , to the indemnity basis set out in sub-rule ( 2 ) . |
| 12 | Despite colonial rule the islands ' distinctive craft techniques survived , particularly a liking for work inlaid with mother-of-pearl . |
| 13 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 14 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 15 | As an initial reaction the girls ' parents might have been shocked by what they got up to . |
| 16 | The 1956 vintage of the independent left was one of extraordinary potential , numbering many thousands of experienced cadres from the Communist Party crisis , hundreds of Labour lefts bursting from their party prison , contingents of determined and defiant pacifists and , within a short while the Children 's Crusade of teenagers from all classes . |
| 17 | From Iranian territory the rebels ' radio station , ‘ The Voice of Revolutionary Iraq ’ , claimed that the guerrillas had killed 400 Iraqi soldiers in Basra during the night of April 22nd . |
| 18 | In Holland and several other continental countries the unions ' rightful place was very much regarded as being ‘ not inside the plant but beyond the gates ’ ( Windmüller , 1967 ) . |
| 19 | On the foregoing conditions the Goldsmiths ' Company will grant to the Corporation a lease of the School Buildings and Land connected therewith free of rent for 999 years , and will give them a perpetual endowment of £290 per annum in addition to the sum of £10 which they are bound to pay under the will of Sir Edmond Shaa ; but the Lease and the Endowment Grant shall contain clauses giving the Goldsmiths ' Company the right of re-entry in the one case and making the annuity to cease in the other on breach of any or either of the conditions above named . " |
| 20 | In the larger American stations the women 's waiting-room sometimes had a ‘ matron ’ available to help women with their children or those fatigued by their journey . |
| 21 | In a shared tank the parents ' real problems begin when the fry are free-swimming , as they are easy prey for other fish . |
| 22 | With the ground shifting beneath both ‘ imperial greatness ’ and unproblematic prosperity the Tories ' electoral bloc showed increasing signs of weakness . |
| 23 | In other cases the parents ' view of what their child should be able to do is appropriate but the child is showing a delay in his or her development and needs more detailed assessment of the level of progress . |
| 24 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 25 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 26 | In recent years the officers ' freedom to divorce professional judgement from political calculation has , in many authorities , diminished sharply , and today 's chief officers are increasingly coming ‘ to see their role as less than that of a neutral professional or technocrat and more that of a bureaucratic politician ’ ( Laffin and Young , 1985 , p. 51 ) . |
| 27 | On the other hand the boys ' expedition had occurred only yesterday … dear God , only yesterday … and if … when … |
| 28 | It is futile to judge by modern standards the Abyssinians ' treatment of their prisoners : theirs were still the standards of the Middle Ages . |
| 29 | John Pilger Labour shares the Tories ' great power pretensions |
| 30 | JOHN PILGER The ghost of Mrs Thatcher Labour shares the Tories ' great power pretensions |