Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , cos I got stuck there that 's why , it was a bloody awful day if you ask |
| 2 | got up and went to work and had this bloody awful throat and I thought , |
| 3 | She said it courteously , using the same polite professional tone that he was using himself , all the time hating the fact that he never teased her now . |
| 4 | The powder was a pretty strong absorbent mixture and I felt sure it would do the trick , but a week later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 5 | Her features were too irregular — large brown eyes , a small tip-tilted nose and a wide mouth which broke into an odd lop-sided smile when she was happy . |
| 6 | Ignoring the foundation of the European Economic Community until it was too late to join on favourable terms , Britain lost its position as a first-class trading power without even noticing . |
| 7 | Thus Skocpol sees the state 's autonomy as deriving from the specific political functions that it performs . |
| 8 | They will rightly look to a Labour Government who will not look at the matter in the narrow economic calculus that we have heard from Conservative Members but will recognise that , unless we are prepared to accept the role of women in the labour force , we will fail as an economy to receive and achieve our full potential . |
| 9 | But give them a solid economic recovery and they 'll forget it ever happened . ’ |
| 10 | Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) wo n't happen , nor will the progress towards European political union that it was supposed to advance . |
| 11 | In particular , the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty which lies at the root of British democracy can not be squared with European political union as it is currently proposed . |
| 12 | What was the total total money that you , that you put on ? |
| 13 | We do not know whether those who have received an agricultural education run more profitable agricultural businesses but I imagine most people assume they do . |
| 14 | Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 15 | Completely dry inland regions where they predominate , for example the so-called ‘ oases ’ , support little vegetation . |
| 16 | When this operation was completed our shore unit moved in to seize a total of 196 kilos of cannabis which in those days was worth well over £300,000 , while Alert intercepted Cornish Lady before she was able to escape . |
| 17 | Now , TB is practically non-existent in the Western world , and something we tend to forget all about , except on the odd cultural occasion when we hear Mimi coughing herself so touchingly and melodically to death in La Bohème , or read the life of a Lakeland poet , or dwell on the saga of the Lady of the Camellias . |
| 18 | I think Kenneth had a strong sexual imagination and I am sure that a lot went through his mind , but J do n't think it went further than that . ’ |
| 19 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 20 | The new paradigm , full of promise and not beset by apparently insuperable difficulties , now guides new normal scientific activity until it too runs into serious trouble and a new crisis followed by a new revolution results . |
| 21 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 22 | He tried again , using the strange English word because she was white . |
| 23 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 24 | I thought he was a plucky old man and it worked out for him very well . |
| 25 | It is ironic that those two Members were allies in forcing the Madrid conditions on the exchange rate mechanism on the right hon. Lady and they are now at odds over further developments in the Community , but they can still both vote for this meaningless motion . |
| 26 | I am pleased to be able to tell the right hon. Gentleman that we have had discussions on that matter both in the European Community Development Ministers ' meeting the Thursday before last and at the OECD . |
| 27 | I repeat to the right hon. Gentleman that I have said no such thing , and neither in context has my right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 28 | I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman that it is undesirable for any delegation to stay away . |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman and I approach the problem from somewhat different angles , but I do not disagree with his conclusion . |
| 30 | The right hon. Gentleman and I will have to disagree about the difficulties that those galleries face . |