Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] of [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm as the result of a a board of directors decision taken on er March twenty second nineteen ninety three it was proposed that a a new public liability holding company named the Water Company be formed er from the capitali er capitalization of assets currently surplus to requirements of the founding company namely . |
| 2 | Well yes , there was no such thing as er chapels of rests then was there ? |
| 3 | And it 's only if there is no spouse that matters go rather more as might expect , namely firstly always the children or the issue if they are n't any of those to your parents brothers an sis er issue of parents therefore brothers sisters nephews and nieces . |
| 4 | And er lot of shops there . |
| 5 | Did I tell you the name They 're place is called , oh there , there was er couple of weeks ago , they had a strip show |
| 6 | The corporation 's board of governors yesterday decided to keep both men in their jobs but tried to end the embarrassing row over Mr Birt 's tax affairs . |
| 7 | Unix International , which found its million-dollar seat on X/Open 's board of directors as burdensome as the Open Software Foundation did and was threatening to drop out , as OSF did ( UX No 404 ) , has found accommodation in X/Open 's new cheaper technical membership classification . |
| 8 | ( First Edition ) THE LEAGUE 'S board of directors yesterday found Castleford and Hull guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by brawling in their Wheldon Road meeting 10 days ago , and fined each club £3,000 , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 9 | Team mate and defensive partner Colin Hendry is amazed by Moran 's change of fortunes too . |
| 10 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |
| 11 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 12 | Technically remarkable as his study is , some sort of ordering framework would have made Terkel 's ragbag of responses more itelligible . |
| 13 | Beginning with Frank directing removal vans and other vehicles , with inevitable results , it soon sees the couple 's home of seconds earlier fall down as Frank disappears round the corner in the removal lorry . |
| 14 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 15 | Not at Paul Hill 's remembrance of beatings past , when he could hear the sound of steel-tipped boots running to take part in the fun , and once heard a principal medical officer , no less , telling colleagues : ‘ Do n't walk his face , do n't walk his face . ’ |
| 16 | It would be reasonable to expect from this that over a few years , our APR disclosure regulations broadly similar to the US Truth in Lending Law — will raise people 's knowledge of APRs well above the present level , and confirm them in their belief that disclosure of APRs is important . |
| 17 | This in its turn would change people 's pattern of purchases away from that which reflected their true preferences . |
| 18 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |
| 19 | The university 's list of injuries also includes a suspected broken wrist . |
| 20 | And we used to th masses of cousins there and erm one one of my Jean , my cousin about ten months younger than I said , can I have a go Mollie ? |
| 21 | The first is that of font compatibility ; ie does Linotype 's version of Times really match Bitstream 's Swiss . |
| 22 | Marianne Talbot , you 're a philosophy don at Pembroke College , a feminist and member of the Three Hundred Group , which wants to get three hundred women into Parliament by the year two thousand , what do you think of John Major 's treatment of women so far ? |
| 23 | Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert . |
| 24 | Simon Gray 's The Holy Terror was good , but Beckett is incomparable , and Barry McGovern 's reading of Stirrings Still is an owl in the belfry of my memory . |
| 25 | If Gregory 's ordering of events here is right , and there are no means of testing this part of his account , then the last years of Clovis 's reign were concerned with the internal power politics of the Franks , whereas much of his earlier activity had taken place on an international stage . |
| 26 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |
| 27 | BGS 's network of seismographs now extends from Shetland to the Channel Islands . |
| 28 | Peggy Wood and her team transformed the Davidson Room into an Aladdin 's Cave of Things Past and Present that was to be a magnet and a haven for members of the public . |
| 29 | Although it clearly plumps for quality , not bulk , the draft 's shopping-list of wants soon smothers this principle . |
| 30 | The Drugs unit aims to expand pupils ' knowledge of drugs so that they appreciate that only some drugs are socially acceptable . |