Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time delay can have safety and/or economic consequences hence the need to accelerate the experts ' diagnosis and decision processes . |
| 2 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 3 | most of the jobs that are likely to be needed in the s in the Harrogate area would be office or administrative jobs where a higher density would survive . |
| 4 | Seven or eight hours later the 20-page script would be finished and the Teacher 's depleted . |
| 5 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 6 | Rather , they were demanded most rigorously where further training involved FE or professional courses where the educational qualification was an entry requirement . |
| 7 | ‘ Lord Beddington explained that five or six years ago the Australian banking organisation broke down altogether and nobody stepped in to save it . |
| 8 | Well every Sunday we go to Sadie 's that flower pot place there 's twelve or thirteen cars out every Sunday ! |
| 9 | There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs . |
| 10 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 11 | He er , is a sheep farmer and er , two or three years ago the Atherstone passed through his land and er ran amuck amongst his flock and he lost actually three in lamb ewes who drowned in a local river . |
| 12 | As the volume of private building increases over the two or three years following the proposed changes of policy , local authority housing must as soon as possible be restricted to these objects . |
| 13 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 14 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 15 | The shooting followed incidents over the last two or three weeks where the family 's other two cats have returned home and have been violently sick . |
| 16 | We were we had n't been home a couple of two or three weeks then the big war started , nineteen fourteen . |
| 17 | There were at minimum 3 or 4 instances where a Leeds goal looked certain , and a hatful of other chances besides . |
| 18 | In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them . |
| 19 | Existing waste disposal operations will have to be put out to private or arms-length companies so the local authority 's policing role can not be mixed with its disposal role . |
| 20 | This comes with one or more switches on the same ‘ plate ’ , operating different lights . |
| 21 | Triangulation is a chain of supplies of goods among three or more parties where the goods are delivered from the first party direct to the last party in the chain . |
| 22 | If your army includes sixteen or more Trolls then the possible number of units goes up by 1 for every extra 5 models , eg 16–20 Trolls = up to 4 units , 21–25 Trolls = up to 5 units , 26–30 Trolls = up to 6 units and so on . |
| 23 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 24 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 25 | Lay out the small , smooth wooden blocks or small boxes where the living compartments for the ants are to be . |
| 26 | Since the book appeared in America , Rock has been surprised by the letters he 's received ‘ from people who live in the suburbs or small flats where the father is the king , where his armchair is the throne . |
| 27 | In a general index it may only be possible to distinguish between different meanings of the one homograph by using scope notes or qualifying terms wherever the term arises , and thus in some way replace the context that is normally absent in respect of index terms . |
| 28 | Some 30 or 40 years ago an elderly lady living near Knocknamuckley was speaking about a neighbour who had been taken into ‘ B ’ block in the Lurgan and Portadown Hospital . |
| 29 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 30 | And the apostle Paul he gets open the scrolls and he starts in Genesis and he explains the plan of salvation , and he tells him what he 's got ta do , and he explains all the requirements , and about three or four hours later the man 's mind is completely blurred , he does n't understand a word of it , it 's gone way beyond him , course Paul does n't do that , he shoots back the answer straight away , believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved . |