Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 2 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 3 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 4 | However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused . |
| 5 | We know too little about the internal social relations of some of the earliest collective and collaborative forms to speak with any certainty of that stage . |
| 6 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 7 | The G17 ( Gastrin I Human ; Sigma , Poole , Dorset , UK ) made up in 0.15M saline containing 1% albumin was infused continuously by an infusion pump ( Vickers Medical , Basingstoke , Hants , UK ) at doses of 0 , 11 , 33 , 100 , and 300 pmol/kg/h , each for a 30 minute period . |
| 8 | There 's 20 each for the best three . |
| 9 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 10 | Now she has swapped all that for a nonstop international round of meetings , negotiations , lectures , media appearances . |
| 11 | Mary Teresa Epstein , what kind of name was that for a good Catholic girl , orthodox to the core ? |
| 12 | Also briefly discussed are the sale and purchase agreement in so far as it is inconsistent with that for a normal corporate acquisition , and the managers ' service agreements . |
| 13 | She knew that there were murky corners to his business affairs , that for a suave good-looking man , he had one or two unfortunate characteristics , like a ferocious temper . |
| 14 | There is no escaping , though that for a two-plus-two grand tourer , the SL is cramped . |
| 15 | This indicates , that for an incompressible elastic solid , i.e. one having a Poisson ratio of 0.5 , Young 's modulus is three times larger than the shear modulus . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't be like that , ’ said Mr Pilcher , and he then gave me to understand that for an unspecified weekly consideration I could purchase his protection , allowing me and Mrs Mouse to continue with our musical evenings without their being gate-crashed by him and his colleagues . |
| 17 | We found that the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte-saturated carbon-bearing samples increased more steeply with temperature than that for the electrolyte-saturated carbon-free samples ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 18 | What is that for the actual three hund |
| 19 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
| 20 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 21 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 22 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 23 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 24 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 25 | It is , nonetheless , significantly different from that for the high rated films , z=1.75 , p<0.05 . |
| 26 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 27 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 28 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 29 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 30 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |