Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Before going on to discuss the characteristics of each market we set out in Table 6.3 the size of each of the markets that constitute the London money market . |
2 | The main characteristics of this system they identified as disposable cheap labour , minimal skill transmission due to the fragmentation of work and maximum locational flexibility ( footloose factories ) . |
3 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
4 | After some centuries of independent statehood it became a part of the Ottoman Empire and then came under Russian influence from the early nineteenth century . |
5 | As I weigh together the advantages and disadvantages of either of the present methods of deaf education I have to also take into account the high possibility of failure in the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ technique and the ‘ unattractiveness ’ of ‘ total communication ’ . |
6 | I know for the readers of Outdoor Action I do n't have to quote the Country Code , but for all our sakes let's stick to it . |
7 | In the eyes of this boy he and his wife were probably ridiculous , she lying on a sun-chair , he old and out of touch with the world . |
8 | But in the grey eyes of this female I read only a kind of concealed hostility . |
9 | Hard on the heels of that distinction we learnt in March that two Fellows , Carole Jordan , astrophysicist and physics tutor , and Louise Johnson , had been elected Fellows of the Royal Society , the only two women on the 1990 list . |
10 | In 200 acres of fresh plough I saw hardly any earthworms at all . |
11 | ‘ Oh , we pigs have thick skins , Dionne , do n't let the acres of pink fool you . ’ |
12 | Now , there are a lot of aspects of Israelite society I would n't identify with , like stoning delinquents , but that is an aspect I think we could learn from , and I do think that the extended family is something I miss , I yearn for . |
13 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |
14 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |
15 | Among the fragments of blackened paper he saw a used safety match , the unburnt half of the stem clean and white as if it had only recently been struck . |
16 | To anyone fed up with yet more recordings of standard stuff I eagerly recommend this fine CD . |
17 | For the virtuosi of this kind we recommend the Walter style of piano . |
18 | After 9 months of continued treatment he was referred to our institution , at which time his CD4 cell count was 740/L , his CMV serology ( IgG+IgM ) was positive ( titre 256 ) , and his HIV seropositivity was confirmed . |
19 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
20 | The first three months of this year we 've had an increase in sales , but those have really been attributable to improved er t to stronger U S and Canadian currency rates . |
21 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
22 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
23 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
24 | After months of national debate it was reported on Aug. 10 that Miyazawa had approved a proposed state visit to China by Emperor Akihito , in October , designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic Sino-Japanese relations . |
25 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott could now concentrate on the preparations for the Normandy landings , although he was still not fully fit after the months of hard training he did with his men . |
26 | On the basis of the limited knowledge acquired from examining the 3 Institutions of higher education it would appear that there is a higher dropout in the first year of a course among non-traditional students than among the general student body . |
27 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
28 | I have a fitting on Sunday for the ‘ New Faces ’ final — one gown with three jackets to ring the changes over the ninety minutes of live T.V. It 's imperative that I do the show as I ca n't think of anyone who could step into the breach should I become ill . |
29 | We 've had a couple of stoppages in the first half , not the sort that will give us the nine minutes of added time we had at Highbury on Saturday , but certainly a minute or two this evening . |
30 | The beginning of an answer to this question is implicit in the accounts of concessive holism we have so far considered . |