Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 2 | This revolution which , without proper management could be as socially devastating as the enclosures movement , offers a real possibility for recreating a rich and diverse countryside — the living countryside our grandparents knew . |
| 3 | One of the mothers said she felt quite sorry for the police officers involved and was tempted to offer them warm drinks to keep out the cold ! |
| 4 | ‘ Really , it 's been a terrible season , rain rain rain , you ca n't help feeling sorry for the trades people , they have to live all winter on what they get from tourists . ’ |
| 5 | Sentence : seven years imprisonment with three years imprisonment concurrent for the firearms offence . |
| 6 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 7 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 8 | In both cases , it is sensible for the petrochemicals business to handle the products because their manufacture at Wilton is so closely integrated with the aromatics plant . |
| 9 | For instance , there is no superordinate for the nouns knife , fork and spoon : that , there is no X such that It 's a knife , It 's a fork and It 's a spoon all entail It 's an X . |
| 10 | Applicants offering qualifications other than those acceptable for an honours degree will be considered for entry to the ordinary degree . |
| 11 | Applicants offering qualifications other than those acceptable for the honours degree will be considered for entry to the ordinary degree . |
| 12 | Since our last meeting The Medau Society has been offered a Grant for one year only — which is very generous of the Sports Council under the circumstances and for which we are very grateful — BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN CONDITIONS : |
| 13 | B & K 's top of the Scots pops |
| 14 | He is currently top of the jobs league in the north east . |
| 15 | This was actually rather brave considering the police marksmen lining the roofs ! |
| 16 | Or they could be afraid of the implications girls ' work might have for their own work . |
| 17 | Fortuitously , its very title makes the short version acceptable under the Trades Descriptions Act ! |
| 18 | When de Gaulle was warned that the recall of a soldier who was so popular with the pieds noirs might spark disturbances in Algeria , his reply was adamant : " If this decision provokes some local unrest , well we shall see . |
| 19 | Techniques that suppress embarrassing expressions of emotion from hypnotised subjects are popular with the police hypnotists like Dr Martin Reiser , the founder of the Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute in Los Angeles which trains policemen to perform hypnosis . |
| 20 | My Lord erm , er one ca n't of course draw conclusions from one market to the next , they are all different certainly is a self regulatory market is different from a futures market |
| 21 | The community trials combined show a 39% reduction in diarrhoeal deaths ( 24% to 50% ; two tailed p<0.00001 ) , a 55% reduction in measles deaths ( 13% to 77% ; two tailed p=0.017 ) , and a slight increase in respiratory deaths , though this was not significantly different from an odds ratio of 1 . |
| 22 | She looked at the polished coppery band , so different from the collars Samson forged along with fetters and thumbscrews for the slave trade . |
| 23 | Yet the faith that Khoneini represented , Shiism , is radically different from the Sunnis faith practised my most Muslims . |
| 24 | Other Danuese , particularly the ex-FAKINTIL in the malai battalions , thought it was to help planes to home in more accurately . |
| 25 | Since wage rates are equal in the two industries and the marginal cost of meals ( 5 ) is half the marginal cost of films ( 10 ) , the marginal physical product of labour must be twice as high in the meals industry as in the film industry . |
| 26 | Yet he could take an Alpine stage and finish high in the mountains classification . |
| 27 | One top pop agent reveals : ‘ With a single so high in the charts Felix should be earning up to £2,000 a night in clubs . |
| 28 | Impressions gained in this study suggest that ‘ crime work ’ ranks high in the police value system … |
| 29 | One class I proposed to visit , but was warned off as only one member was likely to be interested in a workers movement , all the others were retired from professions and it was thought I ( a gardener ) might offend them … |
| 30 | In comparison there has been very little work on the psychology of masculinity and the nature of male identity , although both men ( and women ) are becoming increasingly interested in the forms masculinity might assume in the 1990s and beyond . |