Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm well I 'm in the scheme , the company pension scheme and I think they give er I think it 's six months ' full pay and six months ' half pay . |
| 32 | Oh he said I said it 's six weeks ' that she 's been here . |
| 33 | The penalty for early redemption is three months ' interest . |
| 34 | In Scotland , the penalty for a summary offence is three months ' imprisonment or a fine , but not both . |
| 35 | Next there is these theologians ' view of salvation . |
| 36 | It bounces along wonderfully , with Caine obviously having a whale of a time , and is ideal kiddies ' Christmas fare . |
| 37 | ‘ By the time my sheep are lambing , ’ Small says , ‘ the foxes are probably glad of a change of diet : it 's 11 months ' pork from the pig unit next door , then one month 's lamb . ’ |
| 38 | The only building of note is All Saints ' church , standing on what is for Holderness an eminence . |
| 39 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 40 | He was certainly at least jointly responsible for the rebuilding of the town 's All Saints ' church ( 1677–80 ) and was perhaps involved also in the designing of the Sessions House ( 1676–88 ) as well as houses in the Market Place . |
| 41 | Another familiar face on the starting grid is Valli Harriers ' Kevin Forster , who has twice finished runner-up at London in 1984 and 1988 , but has not tackled the event for a couple of years . |
| 42 | Unger ( 1983 ) argues that epistemological certainty is feminist psychologists ' main enemy . |
| 43 | The maximum penalty is ten years ' imprisonment , compared with a maximum of five years for the lesser offence of violent disorder . |
| 44 | The USA is United Distillers ' largest single world market . |
| 45 | Bradford City Centre interchange is five minutes ' walk from the Museum with rail , bus and taxi service under one roof . |
| 46 | The Lower Tier is five minutes ' walk away . |
| 47 | Moreover , the maximum penalty for the section 47 offence is five years ' imprisonment , with no apparent justification for the strange approach of making the penalty equivalent to the higher offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( the section 20 offence ) , and the fault requirement equivalent to the lower offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( common assault , with a maximum of six months ' imprisonment ) . |
| 48 | This is small boys ' ideas of sex |
| 49 | The current maximum is one years ' pay and 18 months of medical coverage . |
| 50 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 51 | It is several critics ' testimony that John 's awakening re-awakens the reader to John 's sleeping presence ( or , rather , immanence ) . |
| 52 | Half-century show is young farmers ' best |
| 53 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 54 | The final stage is two years ' apprenticeship to an established solicitor , known as articles of clerkship , which can be regarded as the clinical stage of training during which the skills of managing an office , interviewing clients , writing letters , instructing counsel and handling client money are learned . |
| 55 | The maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment or an unlimited fine . |
| 56 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
| 57 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 58 | There 's two days ' reading in that heap , easy . |
| 59 | It 's two days ' journey to London by horse , and Will talked all the way . |
| 60 | ‘ In two months ’ time , but it 's two weeks ' journey and |