Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adj] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 2 | Five TECs have reported having more than 1,000 youngsters awaiting offers of training places , and another five have between 500 and 1,000 waiting . |
| 3 | The proportion has now soared to two-thirds — DHSS figures for 1982 show that only a minority , 713,700 , exist on the £25 a week unemployment benefit alone — 2,612,000 " top up " with supplementary benefit , and another 1,428,500 depend on supplementary benefit alone . |
| 4 | Conservative electoral landslides , extension of home ownership , reductions in trade union membership and power , and the rise of white-collar employment , entrepreneurship , and self-employment all seem to be powerful indicators of this change . |
| 5 | Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises . |
| 6 | Following this group , a further 20 units have been identified for the next group and these 20 come from within a batch of fifty who will form the subsequent groups . |
| 7 | Their two children are beside their parents , and all four appear to be looking up into Heaven . |
| 8 | The social communities and nests of bees and termites , the aquatic homes of sand grains and sticks built by caddis fly larvae , the webs and traps of spiders , the nests of some fishes , the huge pits over three feet deep and six feet in diameter of the green sea turtle , the ramifying burrows and nesting chambers of wood mice , the holes and domestic quarters of foxes , badgers , moles and rabbits , the amazing engineering feats of the dam and lodge-building beaver — all these and many more tell of an inner instinctive pattern of mental motivation lying beyond the realm of brain cells alone . |
| 9 | Bohemian children suffer from two to three respiratory diseases a year , and one third suffer from non-specific allergies . |
| 10 | And therefore by a mighty feat of arithmetic we come up with the figure of what , one hundred and twenty eight go for the system by thirds . |
| 11 | Where 's a hundred and twenty eight come from ? |
| 12 | What 's forty nine and twenty five come to ? |
| 13 | The embalming had held out ; but so numerous were the numbers of visitors that the body began to decay , and reports of 1711 , 1723 and 1773 all allude to its degenerate state . |
| 14 | It 's to say that there maybe some rather simple scientific idea behind some idea , but in practice there are so many other constraints and limitations , but all these have to be taken into account . |