Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine . |
| 2 | When he is 10 years older he will be happy with 65 every time . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll tell you what if he 's six months old you 'll have to watch him chewing as well . |
| 4 | There are not many yews of this age left in Britain ; in fact if the tree is 2,000 years old it 'll be one of only about 40 trees in western Europe to have reached this age . |
| 5 | A As vintage Champagne is not released before it is three years old it is a relatively mature wine and is thus ready to drink when available in Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | Daryl was puzzled , but Sally do n't be silly my mother says in a letter she 's seen your baby sister she 's three months old she said . |
| 7 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 8 | So this is ten times one and this is ten times ten we could cancel those out and we get |
| 9 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 10 | Whereas many otherwise ‘ progressive ’ disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions , Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom : ‘ Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers , the grass , the cattle , the sheep that scamper away from him , when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them , the pebbles upon the road etc . |
| 11 | I 'd like to go on living and working on Skomer but as my son is four years old I 'll soon be facing a dilemma over the need for his education and I might have no choice but to rethink our future . ’ |
| 12 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |