Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household . |
| 2 | I mean if there are two or three days off during that or one day off you take for instance , as long as it 's fifteen working days . |
| 3 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 4 | Now I 've done the narration for that and that video is a hundred and twelve action packed minutes about Nottingham in nineteen ninety three . |
| 5 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 6 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 7 | Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale . |
| 8 | For years , of course , there have been rumours about this and that athlete . |
| 9 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 10 | Three nights accommodation in the hotel grade of your choice in Hilversum with full Dutch Breakfast ( see Hotel Lapershoek for half and full board supplements ) . |
| 11 | Every couple has to find for themselves where this balance lies and , to be frank , this can be hard for some because one partner 's idea of novelty is the other 's perception of tedium . |
| 12 | With unemployment up from 3 per cent at the beginning of 1991 to 9 per cent , expenditure on unemployment benefit would be markedly higher ; the additional FMk7,000 million needed for this and higher health benefits would be financed out of cuts in other areas of social spending . |
| 13 | The small party of Norwegians with each commando Troop acted as interpreters for this and other intelligence , leading to the Gestapo chief — a fat man in a dark suit — squealing his protest at capture within a quarter of an hour of the landing . |
| 14 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 15 | Spokesmen make statements but no one comes forward to say , ’ I did it , for this and that reason . ’ |
| 16 | A minor reshuffle took place in March [ for this and full Committee list see p. 37803 ] . |
| 17 | A reshuffle took place in mid-1990 [ for this and full Cabinet list as of October see p. 37802 ] . |
| 18 | A reshuffle took place in October [ for this and full Cabinet list see p. 37798 ] . |
| 19 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |
| 20 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 21 | Personal preferences for this or that novel , although clearly visible in the analysis , will be of a purely anecdotal significance . |
| 22 | ‘ Some very clever , very nice and very holy people need to be turned away from internal debates on the relative clap-happiness of church services or the sexual inclinations of the clergy or whether to write letters to the papers campaigning for this or that party in general elections . |
| 23 | The plan contains many elements of the prognosis of the anarchical factor ( e.g. the estimate made of crops , of the amount of grain available as a commodity , the amount of commodities represented by peasant production generally , and consequently , the estimate of prices ) , and this prognosis becomes the starting point for this or that directive . |
| 24 | As a result , the scrutiny of the estimates in the Committee of Supply became a formal vote to reduce the money for this or that department by a nominal figure so as to permit a general attack on the government 's policy in that field . |
| 25 | Private MPs rise and ask for time for this or that motion or debate which they particularly want , but normally the only concessions the Leader of the House will make is through ‘ the usual channels ’ , that is in private discussions with the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 26 | In extreme cases , if the dark areas of the artwork are not perfectly opaque ( say you used ink instead of dry transfers or crepe tape ) the UV light could pass through this and excessive exposure will affect the etch-resist varnish under the artwork — and the result can be that the whole of the etch-resist ink will be exposed , so that the foil pattern does not develop . |
| 27 | There is no similarity between this and international arbitration , where a state voluntarily agrees in a particular case to accept the judgment of a tribunal , as two individuals might freely agree to accept the adjudication of an arbitrator . |
| 28 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 29 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 30 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |