Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flour-thickened curries , greasy hot pots and lasagnes , sausages and mash , or ersatz shepherd 's pie wo n't do much for your waistline or fatty lipid count . |
| 2 | Again , prior planning under the partnership deed may provide for purchase of a deceased or retired partner 's share by valuation . |
| 3 | The perverse result , in many poor neighbourhoods , is that a young man lives off his mother 's or pregnant girlfriend 's welfare cheques , or both . |
| 4 | The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them . |
| 5 | Right from the first evening of video recording , when we realised that BSL ( or deaf people 's signing ) was not only a manual language , because of its animated involvement of the deaf person , it became clear that the key to understanding the learning task for deaf people lies in the examination of the language itself . |
| 6 | Such ambivalence makes shifts of register suggestive , for they tend to imply that we are listening to this or that person 's manner of speaking , and to shift point of view accordingly . |
| 7 | If you are a constant reader of this column the chances are good that your mailbox brims daily with the glossy opportunities of galleries about town requesting your presence at this or that artist 's show . |
| 8 | BOSS ME-6 & ME-10 BOSS 's success in the effects pedal market was expanded some time ago with the introduction of the ME-5 and BE-5 multipedals . |
| 9 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 10 | For instance , on the basis of last year 's births , we can make a fairly accurate assessment of the number of first-year secondary school places required in 11 or 12 years ' time , because this depends mainly on fairly stable child mortality patterns . |
| 11 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 12 | Instead the widow 's pension or widowed mother 's allowance will be payable immediately on the husband 's death . |
| 13 | Anyone who does not possess a fax machine of their own can use their local printer or British Telecom 's Bureaufax service which is run from offices up and down the country . |
| 14 | The local Age Concern group or Old People 's Welfare Council group may be able to tell you about special services in your area , which they or other groups run . |
| 15 | For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size . |
| 16 | More questionable is whether this dainty twirl of the merry-go-round will do much to change the nation — or this government 's ill-fortune . |
| 17 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 18 | Check out The Hit Squad 's R-Type instead , or this month 's Megatape marvel , Breakthrough . |
| 19 | For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker . |
| 20 | This is an offer to acquire part of a listed or quoted company 's share capital on equal terms to all shareholders . |
| 21 | Provisions for parental leave range from 18 months ' low flat rate pay in Germany , or six months ' leave at 30 per cent of earnings in Italy , to three months ' unpaid leave in Greece . |
| 22 | In 1844 , after Coleman 's time , the course at the Edinburgh ‘ Dick ’ School was apparently a mere five or six months ' duration . |
| 23 | While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus . |
| 24 | There can be substantial pressure on the builder 's surveyor in locating and engaging labour and in the measurement of bonus , or labour-only sub-contractors ' work , on a weekly basis . |
| 25 | Section 43 is in the following terms : Subject to any agreement between the partners , the amount due from surviving or continuing partners to an outgoing partner or the representatives of a deceased partner in respect of the outgoing or deceased partner 's share is a debt accruing at the date of the dissolution or death . |
| 26 | A euro-currency is a time deposit held in a bank located outside the country ( or central bank 's jurisdiction ) responsible for the currency in which the deposit is denominated , e.g. a dollar time deposit held in any bank 's branch in London or a DM time deposit held in any bank 's branch in Luxembourg ( both financial centres are outside the USA and West Germany respectively ) . |
| 27 | If the employer failed to comply with an order to reinstate , the maximum special award is the greater of £20,100 or 156 weeks ' pay without there being any limit on a week 's pay . |
| 28 | I thought a cup of sweet English tea or warm camels ' milk and clove and a sleep , and certainly not to take the wheel of one of the cars on their way to Al Ain . |
| 29 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 30 | They should look at the Europe that will exist in five or 10 years ' time , at a Community with 18 or 20 members and perhaps even more , and at the interests that we have in common — security , defence , foreign policy , the environment , prosperity and peace in the world . |