Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first dimension of meaning of the handshake as action is the open set of distinct social action sequences it helps to perform . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | F. When firms in the UK and the EEC want to expand their businesses with extra new branch factories they consider carefully the special advantages which there are in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | To take one last look at the electronic signature which marked out his birthplace from the countless other star systems he could see . |
| 12 | BANKS should give up their High Street locations and move into the back alleys with the grubby little money lenders they increasingly resemble . |
| 13 | And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that . |
| 14 | But with the present high interest rates they do not form a great investment . |
| 15 | But with the present high interest rates they do not form a great investment . |
| 16 | But with the present high interest rates they do not form a great investment . |
| 17 | So , for example , the seller will also be able to recover any reasonable extra storage expenses he has had to incur , section 37 . |
| 18 | Following its agreements with Maspar Computer Corp and Intel Corp , DEC now has three more conventional massively parallel streams on the go — the Single Instruction-Multiple Data machines that it will build using MasPar 's chip , the Multiple Instruction-Multiple Data machines it plans using Intel 's 80860XP chip and technology , and an Alpha-based massively parallel machine set for 1995 . |
| 19 | You 've got everything but those great bubbling glass things they always have for the mad scientist ! ’ |
| 20 | Before the fascinating high-fibre research findings it was assumed that weight loss depended entirely on the number of calories consumed compared with the number expended by the body . |
| 21 | Along with the gradual movement away from fossil fuels and the refinement of nuclear technologies and the development of effective renewable energy strategies it is the only rational course for the future of energy supply . |
| 22 | You must give the total gross SSP payments you have made to each employee on your P14 End-of-Year Return . |
| 23 | On the table before us , incongruous among the polystyrene coffee cups , were the old-fashioned cloth-bound photograph albums she 'd brought with her . |
| 24 | We watched with admiration as Alice our skater , now recovering from her ordeal and the fact that her son was a girl , began to unpack the beautiful Swiss lace gowns she had brought with her . |
| 25 | As much of this religious enthusiasm was exported from Britain by the London-based evangelical missionary societies it will be necessary to consult those archives as well as the records of Irish churches and voluntary religious societies . |
| 26 | By calculating the PV of various alternative investment projects they could then be ranked against each other . |
| 27 | Er , we built on those sectors , during the er , past year with the initial uncertainty on the B Sky B situation er , we have been managing erm , our way through the recession , you 've heard from Frank er , about the er , immediate short term measures we 've taken . |
| 28 | According to her biographers , Robert Laguardia and Gene Arceri , however , Hayward ‘ was n't anxious to do with her career what now had to be done : modify her image away from the old-guard glamour to fit the concepts of new directors like Mike Nichols … repulsed at the semi-nude hotel-room sex scenes she would have to play , she did not consider it . |
| 29 | An amused smile touched Guido 's eyes as he let his gaze flicker over the rumpled high-necked cotton pyjamas she was wearing . |
| 30 | Big old stone ovens you know ? |