Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 2 | and then maybe only one or two or three other interests you got you go to into very deeply the rest are just sort of friends |
| 3 | And if you 're with National Westminster , you telephone a , a n a number in Manchester or Birmingham or two or three other places I guess but as far as we 're concerned er the Birmingham Manchester one 's the cheapest you , you ring them up and you give them A your identification number and it immediately tells you what your balance is . |
| 4 | Holidays are n't cheap — despite what some people say — and if you have two or three young children they turn out darned expensive . |
| 5 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 6 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 7 | The bank I pay cos there 's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes |
| 8 | Try to spot which of the four or five known activities it is . |
| 9 | We have n't had to make a demand upon our congregation to make such a decision for twenty two or twenty five years you see ? |
| 10 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 11 | I discussed in the previous chapter some of the political questions raised by subsidiarity ; now let me briefly consider one or two legal matters it raises . |
| 12 | Well there are one or two other things we can do to try and make you feel better er even if the , the hands are n't the principle cause er I think we 'll see what happens , work your chest out of the way first though . |
| 13 | And there may be one or two other things we work through over this meeting and the next meeting . |
| 14 | A grudging Thatcher admirer ‘ her principles might have stunk , but at least she was principled ’ he regards the Labour party as unwieldy , undemocratic , totalitarian , outdated and one or two other things we did n't get down in time . |
| 15 | Before that , there are one or two other things I should like to do , er , in particular to thank Tunstall Telecom for their spart , part sponsorship of this meeting . |
| 16 | Two to four years after you left for instance the Pru or one or two other companies they can still claw back commission if somebody cancels a life |
| 17 | When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year , most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying and in one or two other schools it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing ‘ O ’ level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying . |
| 18 | There are one or two other items we can discuss when we meet on Wednesday , 8th . |
| 19 | ‘ If that 's where we 're going , Barry , there 's one or two small things we have to do first . ’ |
| 20 | Er one or two small points I 'd like to make . |
| 21 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 22 | ‘ There are one or two more things I must talk about . |
| 23 | He had one or two more jobs I was to do , to tell people things they need to know , and when that 's done he 'll be back . |
| 24 | I 've not visited this particular town before and there are one or two old buildings I would n't mind looking at . ’ |
| 25 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 26 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 27 | Erm resolution eight er , set out in the notice of the meeting to increase the aggregate annual sum available for directors ' fees to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against I declare the resolution carried as an ordinary re resolution . |
| 28 | Well I I think that the honourable gentleman really must accept that er coming from a party which is er in office in er in the Welsh office and has er two hundred million , two hundred and eight million pounds I think unaccounted for last year , it really ill becomes him er to lecture , to lecture anybody . |
| 29 | They had lived wild in the forests below for nearly three weeks , waiting for their chance ; and three sorry weeks they had been , saturated with spiteful April rains that had discouraged even Isambard from his usual activities . |
| 30 | After 10 days and three predictable victories they were promoted , thanks to Woking dropping a point . |