Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the USA , the other nuclear states have issued pronouncements of one kind or another indicating certain restraints on deployment or possible use . |
| 2 | That maybe the idea , but there are so many things to be done by voluntary workers if people would only say well I 've got half an hour an hour it could be so much of an advantage to whoever they 're giving their services to because we 're having to cut costs on this and costs on that an hour or two given voluntary would cover those jobs that we ca n't get the money to pay for . |
| 3 | From time to time a shell or two falls short and we have several casualties . ’ |
| 4 | Section 4(2) allows a court to make an order postponing such reporting where this appears necessary in the interest of avoiding a substantial risk of prejudice . |
| 5 | If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it . |
| 6 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 7 | All these writers , and many others , stressed what Crick termed " the essential perception that all known advanced societies are inherently pluralistic and diverse " ( p. 62 ) . |
| 8 | Both were sited in the grounds of a hospital with a radiology department so each had open and immediate access to radiographic examination . |
| 9 | Of the three patients not referred , one had cryptogenic cirrhosis and two had primary biliary cirrhosis . |
| 10 | Fifteen patients had biopsy proven cirrhosis and two had alcoholic hepatitis and fatty liver . |
| 11 | But few of them can be done in isolation and all require some element of partnership . |
| 12 | Gilbert had watched the violence in the office , frozen in fear and unable to prevent any of it . |
| 13 | The babies were almost identical weight and both had brown hair . |
| 14 | The Insurance Synopsis will be sent with your Confirmation and this gives full details of cover and exclusions . |
| 15 | The current financial services turnover and this has this has been published in the Financial Times and the Telegraph is somewhere in the region of between eight five and ninety percent . |
| 16 | Held , dismissing the action , that the statutory framework leading to the grant of planning permission envisaged that a local planning authority would balance the interests of the community against those of individuals ; that where a planning authority had granted consent to the development of an area , the measure of disturbance to individuals had to be considered against the changed character of the neighbourhood and those living close to a public highway affected by that change had to accept the increased volume of traffic in the greater public interest ; and that , accordingly , since as a result of planning permission the two roads now gave access to a commercial dock operating 24 hours a day , the serious disturbance to individuals from the movement of heavy goods vehicles was not an actionable nuisance ( post , pp. 460G–H , 461A–C , H — 462B , C–F ) . |
| 17 | Gold has , in the past , been a coveted luxury : 38.7% of Azerbaijanis have at least one gold tooth and some have three or more . |
| 18 | On this scale , 0 signifies minimum detectable reflected light and 63 indicates maximum detectable reflected light . |
| 19 | It is also an example of communal living and co-operative working that is a success . |
| 20 | The parasitic phase is composed entirely of female worms in the small intestine and these produce larvated eggs by parthenogenesis , ie. development from an unfertilised egg . |
| 21 | A minute Rainbow in a cowgirl 's hat , fringed buckskin skirt and tiny spurred western boots . |
| 22 | ‘ With your average white guitar band , they go on the road , they get pissed , they f— anything that wears a skirt and that appears interesting , so you write about it . |
| 23 | At that point , we believed that the Bill would be an irrelevance and unnecessary given that prisoners can already be charged with a wide range of criminal offences , including offences under the Public Order Act 1986 . |
| 24 | ‘ The second killer , the one who murdered the girl , I checked out his MO because that sounded familiar , too . ’ |
| 25 | I hope that both companies will be successful in the privatisation programme because both have much to contribute in different ways . |
| 26 | On the other hand , thirteenth-century French " dramatic monologues " which provide parallels to the mixture of metres — octosyllabic couplets and tail-rhyme stanzas — of Dame Sirith have been discovered , and it is difficult to resist the case that these had some contributory influence on the form of Dame Sirith . |
| 27 | ( It is interesting that residents of voluntary homes are younger and fitter on admission than those entering statutory or private care . |
| 28 | To give time , you must have it — and to have it , you must either be out of work or able to spare valuable hours outside your job . |
| 29 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 30 | At the holding point we selected flap fifteen , exercised the airbrakes out and back again ( they take a second or two to run each way ) , zeroed the tail trim , turned on the heaters for the twin pitot heads ahead of the windscreen and checked the cockpit for red lights , any of which means no-go . |