Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And descending from the dizzy heights of Labour 's megalithic conference platform , he was as caustic as ever of the slick political selling job it symbolised . |
| 2 | He admitted that with prevailing high interest rates he was not particularly keen to mount a management bid , but would do so if it was the only way to safeguard shareholder value . |
| 3 | A 14-YEAR-OLD girl died yesterday after the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway after a police chase , police said . |
| 4 | A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was killed yesterday when the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway during a police chase . |
| 5 | Using professional public relations agencies it buys their expertise and contacts to produce high quality slots featuring nationally famous personalities to promote the library nationally . |
| 6 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 7 | You would n't want to start watching one of those awful old adventure films you like so much if you knew exactly what was going to happen , would you ? |
| 8 | Using the unit cumulative normal frequency distribution we may compute confidence limits for our estimate of beta . |
| 9 | The shoulders were immensely broad , padded out by the grey and brown loose-woven rollneck sweater he was wearing . |
| 10 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 11 | By re-analysing a few examples of French social survey data it is hoped that the British statisticians will become more familiar with French methods and also learn whether British methods would have revealed more or less details , or whether the two types of statistical methods are complementary . |
| 12 | And we have branches , but we could have a lot more because the amount of branches we have , although we have a lot of branches of Scottish Old Age Pensions we are not old age pensioners are not united , they 're not united , the only way they can be united , if it 's a national organization , join your national organization and fight the government . |
| 13 | Because of my research experience working with two aspects of permanence , related in my book Captive Clients ( 1980 ) and the evaluation of The Child Wants a Home project ( Adoption and Fostering , Vol. 9 , No. 1 ) , I find it particularly sad that when the term permanence is mentioned in British social work circles it tends to be seen as synonymous with adoption . |
| 14 | Oh she borrowed it , and a bonnet and a white flowers an all and Joan turned up like a a twenty five year old Victorian fashion model you should have seen her ! |
| 15 | It 's a little just a funny shaped bracket thing it 's sort of stand . |
| 16 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 17 | Midland has tried hard to break the ties , and with its First Direct branchless banking service it has moved ahead of the market , but it needed time and resources and luck . |
| 18 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 19 | However , it is important for him and the Opposition Front-Bench team to understand that when we replaced the old supplementary benefit scheme we sought to target help on the people who needed it most . |
| 20 | I frankly ca n't deal in the time allowed with what Mr said , I have never heard so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in a speech , it was the most comprehensive political suicide speech I 've heard yet in this council . |
| 21 | Although the previous scale had the advantage of corresponding to actual measured accident statistics it proved relatively awkward for subjects to use and is clearly subject to what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms logarithmic response bias . |
| 22 | If police were treated as ordinary public service employees they could demand the right to strike and come under all the other Health and Safety regulations applying to other jobs . |
| 23 | Looking like a scholarly Foreign Office man he took the hard-selling American advertising world of those days aback by the very stealth of his approach . |
| 24 | As writer of a straight historical crime book you can , however , learn something from pastiches . |
| 25 | In order to obtain the remaining metric function M it is necessary to integrate equations ( 7.9 ) , which may be rewritten in the form ( 12.40 ) which is equivalent to ( 11.21 ) . |
| 26 | The first dimension of meaning of the handshake as action is the open set of distinct social action sequences it helps to perform . |
| 27 | Where 's the wee white book Jean I was writing down in ? |
| 28 | From the annual diocesan Year Book you will see that the diocese is promoted and organised by a variety of people , priests , religious and laity . |
| 29 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 30 | As part of the major refurbishment to this warm intimate Music Hall we propose to renew the seats giving , extra legroom in extremely comfortable seats . |