Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the Palestine Survey Commission during the British Mandate Period , engineer James Hays , presented a multi-purpose concept in 1943 for water management in Palestine . |
| 2 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 3 | I do n't give damn about building contractors not being paid . |
| 4 | Feynman became well known in 1948 for work on the quantum theory of light . |
| 5 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |
| 6 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 7 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 8 | But he can be sloppy about detail . |
| 9 | Quintets by Mozart ( K452 ) and Rawsthorne ; Schumann 's Adagio and Allegro Opus 70 for horn and piano ; Ibert 's Cinq Pièces en trio for oboe , clarinet and bassoon . |
| 10 | Ballesteros returned 70 for day three to be two strokes behind the two leaders , with the West German Bernhard Langer . |
| 11 | The taxation review of Brush v Bower Cotton & Bower ( 1992 ) before Mr Justice Brooke sitting with Chief Master Hurst and Mr Tony Girling as assessors ( see para 4.8 , p 70 for reference ) is useful reading on all principles of recovery of costs . |
| 12 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
| 13 | Paul Lawrie also had 70 for level-par 288 to be 25th with Adam Hunter 's 72 for 289 giving him a share of 31st place with Stephen McAllister ( 74 ) . |
| 14 | These exposure drafts , which are still outstanding for comment , are : E 41 , Revenue Recognition ; E 42 , Construction Contracts ; E 43 , Property , Plant and Equipment ; E 44 , The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates ; E 45 , Business Combinations ; and E 46 , Extraordinary Items , Fundamental Errors and Changes in Accounting Policies ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , July , p 95 , and September , p 106 ) . |
| 15 | The amount of credit outstanding for fuel is now approaching £1,000 million ; that is to say , for every £1 that consumers owe for other purchases they owe perhaps 10p for fuel . |
| 16 | KODAK 's EKTRON HAS PARALLEL BOSS-9000 FOR IMAGING |
| 17 | Cuervo is the Spanish for crow , which is the Celtic bird sent in by the Gods on the eve of battle . |
| 18 | His account of the conflict , titled One Hundred Days , is to be translated into Spanish for publication in Argentina . |
| 19 | My mule was a 17-year-old snow-white gelding called Vaquero — Spanish for cowboy . |
| 20 | spell erm spell the word and things but erm write down the words in Spanish for ham or |
| 21 | In general the gap between lip-reading with fingerspelling , and lip-reading alone is greatest for comprehension of larger units such as sentences , and least for single words . |
| 22 | You will hear from us again if you are short-listed for interview . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
| 24 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 25 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 26 | The two will jointly market the software on HP 9000s as part of the OpenView suite of products . |
| 27 | HP READIES LOW COST HUMMINGBIRD 7100 FOR ENTRY LEVEL TSUNAMI KILLER |
| 28 | Next year he was due for promotion at the insurance office . |
| 29 | In 1938 , again due for promotion but medically unfit , he took an appointment as a second-grade staff officer in the War Office to research on any subject he chose . |
| 30 | And workmen were out repairing damage to the illuminations , due for switch-on at the end of the week . |