Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mr Smith was so right to compare those two comedians with Laurel and Hardy . |
| 2 | During the year to mid-1991 by-elections were held in Knowsley on Sept. 27 , 1990 ( held by Labour with an increased percentage over the Conservatives ) ; in Eastbourne on Oct. 18 , ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 37784 ) ; in Bootle and Bradford on Nov. 8 , and in Paisley North and Paisley South on Nov. 29 ( when Labour retained all four seats ; in the Scottish constituencies the SNP advanced from fourth to second ) ; in Ribble Valley on March 7 , 1991 ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 38110 ) ; in Neath on April 4 ( when Labour retained the seat despite a large swing to Plaid Cymru — see p. 38200 ) ; in Monmouth on May 16 ( when Labour won the seat from the exports — $2,500 ) ; and in Liverpool Walton on July 4 ( when Labour retained the seat and the Conservatives came fourth — see p. 38355 ) . |
| 3 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 4 | Among them , Nicholas Calloway of Calloway Editions , Inc. , of New York maintains that he informed the Barnes trustees in late 1990 that his firm would match any price offered to publish a Barnes book , thanks to a major corporation willing to provide several million dollars ' subsidy for the volume . |
| 5 | Before that sanguinary campaign , in which the British lost some 450,000 men for an advance nowhere more than 8km/5mls , volunteers had poured in their hundreds of thousands to the recruiting offices . |
| 6 | But someone says oh this is a bit messy having these two pipes , could n't we just have one pipe that did exactly the same job . |
| 7 | " Well , could it be , sir , " I broached , leafing furiously through my dictionary , " that since this is the last Big One it might be , er , acceptable to send these sixty houses to the stars with — his Highness , your dad ? " |
| 8 | It would be easy to put this 1814 statement down to the cowardice of a middle-aged civil servant ashamed of his youthful indiscretion , were it not for the amazing passage which follows . |
| 9 | League vice president Gifford McConkey said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate to get these two teams to Belfast after such a hectic season . |
| 10 | Stewart McDonald will tell you that it 's not that easy to achieve those three things . |
| 11 | Different types of library have different needs , and it is not therefore possible to suggest any one system as a model . |
| 12 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , was advised when he called the elections that his Congress Party was likely to win some 70 seats in the south . |
| 14 | I have always enjoyed reading books but feel privileged to read these two books , simply because of the hardships suffered by Celie and Ponyboy in the quest for access to the world of books and knowledge , that because of their poverty they were not always able to afford . |
| 15 | That is likely to cost several thousand pounds , and the Scottish Legal Aid Board has already rejected his application to do that . |
| 16 | It is hard to reconcile these two statements . |
| 17 | I mean you 're lucky to get that one mate , I mean you must have been , caught him on a real good day . |
| 18 | But you 're amazingly lucky to have that fifty pounds a year ! |
| 19 | ‘ We are also concerned that the North Down and Ards unit has lost half its beds in the last 10 years and recent board proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures . |
| 20 | Suggestions are made in Chapter 13 on how the possibility of a different perspective can be approached in the classroom , and it might be helpful to read these two chapters in conjunction . |
| 21 | In the interests of maintaining objectivity it is always helpful to keep these two kinds of information distinct and to indicate clearly how an interpretation is derived from the evidence presented . |
| 22 | By collecting the progeny of single 8-cell blastomeres in vitro it is possible to separate these two subpopulations since the pairs of 16-cell blastomeres are generally of different sizes and in most cases the larger cell is polar ( presumptive trophectoderm , TE ) and the smaller cell is apolar ( presumptive inner cell mass , ICM ) ( 26 , and Section 4.1 ) . |
| 23 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 24 | You should be able to answer these two questions : |
| 25 | The Norton Antivirus can detect all the common viruses in the field , but while version 2.1 might claim to be able to detect all 1,400 viruses known to the NCSA , it still ca n't detect many old , well-known , ‘ laboratory ’ viruses such as Pogue , Starship , Slovakia or Slovakia-2 . |
| 26 | Must an item be able to fulfil all four functions of money to be able to be classed as money ? |
| 27 | In fact the chances of being able to fire all nine barrels are slim , as the weapon is likely to misfire first . |
| 28 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 29 | Most likely in the previous set of experiments we used conditions which were not able to resolve these two complexes and therefore reached a mistaken conclusion . |
| 30 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |