Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’
2 Well he 's got so many debts Lynn it just does n't seem right he 's , he 's living in cuckoo land , I mean when are you ever gon na feel secure with somebody like that ?
3 You have only so many police officers you can use and it 's taking our eye off the ball , ’ he said .
4 Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result .
5 Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs .
6 He says , right six months time I 'm totally off the alcohol , he says , what 's gon na get us off the valium ?
7 ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said .
8 By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression .
9 It 's usually hardened drugs users who take and supply crack .
10 Moreover any rights theory which would justify a right of conscientious war-tax diversion without addressing these inequalities would appear defective to many .
11 Ironically many of these people were once keen sports enthusiasts who , due to injury or accident , find themselves confined to a wheelchair .
12 Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure .
13 What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics .
14 After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict .
15 These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) .
16 erm now professional mathematicians people who did nothing but that the whole the community used to bring them
17 Frequently they took refuge in platitudes and rhetoric , delivering as unassailable truths ideas which are elsewhere accepted as very much open to debate .
18 Old fashioned , old fashioned handling , they were designed twenty , thirty years ago , there are much better cars , if you want a really decent sports car you should buy a , a Nissan
19 In about ten minutes time we 'll be catching up with all the local football league results .
20 I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask .
21 And then , by about four months performance you should be able to do about ten metres whatever , you can do .
22 So he said , well he said tell him to come in in about four weeks time he said , we 'll be getting rid of everything .
23 … [ Take ] temperature — you 've got a thermometer in the car but you begin to feel what is about thirty degrees C. You sense that that 's about thirty .
24 Double Gloucester and new Lancashire are the more conventionally accepted cheeses vintages which your dairyman can usually supply for toasting or for English Welsh Rabbit .
25 In around 6 months time I 'll have one of these famed degrees ( hopefully ) and at times I can be equally dopey … to the extent that the same thing happenend to me regarding my cashcard .
26 But what they can do in this case is the manufacturer 's at C , but the manufacturer can not deliver to the shop until maybe two weeks time they can phone us , the carrier , we will then arrange for someone to go to manufacturer at C , pick it up , bring it to us and then we 'll take to the shop .
27 Providing you give us at least seven days notice you wo n't lose any interest on the amount withdrawn .
28 Yet common sense dictates that there can be very few police actions which a person would be entitled to resist at all costs , including if ‘ necessary ’ the use of fatal force .
29 Okay fine thanks Wendy it 's our secret bye .
30 I would admire any conductor just for getting through it from the first note to the last without too many disasters P there 's a pitfall a minute .
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