Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 2 | By an application dated 26 February 1992 Philip Rodney Sykes and John Roger Hill of Binder Hamlyn , appointed receivers pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between the respondent , International Bulk Commodities Ltd. of 80 , Broad Street , Monrovia , Liberia , and the Swiss Bank Corporation , sought , inter alia , a declaration on the question whether they were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 or receivers whose powers were limited to those conferred by the debenture . |
| 3 | However careful or expert you are , other people can still injure you , so if you want to be a pregnant skier , ask your doctor/specialist and then assess the risk — holiday vs baby . |
| 4 | As well as being a perfect cover-up for the beach , it can also be worn as a top or skirt which will look great in the evenings too . |
| 5 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 6 | In the meantime it 's Emerald and Bradley who are the flavour of the autumn . |
| 7 | Other changes include moving the scriptwriters to Spain and banning the odd words of Spanish , French and German which had crept in . |
| 8 | It includes people who graduated as long ago as 1933 and others who left only five or six years ago . |
| 9 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 10 | Today , the same individuals have become labelled as minority groups — ethnic , unemployed and women whose ‘ special needs ’ are the focus of limited intervention by the ‘ caring professions ’ including adult education . |
| 11 | We can not simply allow ourselves to cash in on private sector industry at the expense of the many unemployed and low-paid whose living standards will inevitably decline as a result of the spiralling costs of wholesale privatisation . |
| 12 | The idea that a contritional experience is an ongoing activity in which every man fights and conquers those elements of his fallen nature as Christ fought evil on the Cross and that this is part of the continuing process of redemption — indeed its very condition — was at the heart of their preaching and teaching which developed the monastic piety of an earlier period for a lay audience . |
| 13 | ‘ But within half and hour I could not move at all and I went to hospital . |
| 14 | at the bottom of that page , you 'll see that the blue route and there are two sets of figures , that is based upon high and lows you see at the top which are high and low traffic forecasts . |
| 15 | That stew of Celt and Teuton , Magyar , Slav , Latin and Scandinavian which comprises contemporary Europe has a good deal of experience in common , not just of wars , but in terms of underlying social and intellectual structures . |
| 16 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 17 | It is not a familiar object in our recessionary times , especially to the old and people who have been out enjoying themselves . |
| 18 | The Americans would be well advised to learn from the British and others who have experience in the area . |
| 19 | No , 1970 was not a good year for British and Cosmopolitan what with one thing and the other . |
| 20 | It should be noted here that while Porter is an eminently sensible and clear-thinker his role as a member of the training committee was one of ‘ climber in the street ’ , whose job was apparently to steer the committee away from any productive involvement in training . |
| 21 | During the fever brought on by wounds , forced marches , wet and cold he had dreamed many odd and discomforting things , but never anything like this . |
| 22 | In this context , there is an important distinction to be drawn between imputations which are derogatory and imputations which are defamatory . |
| 23 | It was a wooden and pillars you know this was all down here and this this all 'd to be French polished . |
| 24 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 25 | But the effluent saga had lasted for nearly eight years and although the court appearances were relatively few and Laura herself never became directly involved , the publicity was unwelcome for a company which claimed the Welsh countryside as the key to its philosophy . |
| 26 | I think you 're pretty good at english and punctuation I think well you tell me what do you think you 've got to concentrate on ? |
| 27 | The less rigid and routine your prescribing the better the outcome will be . |
| 28 | it 's male or female you see . |
| 29 | ‘ Childcare is increasingly becoming a necessity and not the optional extra or luxury it may once have been considered , ’ said Coun Frank Robson , chairman of the council 's personnel sub-committee . |
| 30 | ( A statement of special educational needs is a document which outlines the special needs of an individual and lists what resources should be made available to meet those needs in the educational setting . ) |