Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures which I have given , I hope , add up to a total for new accommodation of seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds . |
| 2 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 3 | The picture in Grampian region is even more pronounced with exports to the European Community accounting for 65% , and those to EFTA accounting for more than 10% of the total , giving a total for Western Europe of 75% . |
| 4 | However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery . |
| 5 | While smaller churches may be able to count every week , this may prove impractical for large churches , especially with more than one exit , without some fairly elaborate means of arriving at a total for each service . |
| 6 | The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance . |
| 7 | So if in A one to A four , you got the numbers one hundred thousand , that 'll use sixteen bytes for the block , plus four times eight forty eight a total for this cells . |
| 8 | Needless to say , there was nothing intrinsically divine about such figures . |
| 9 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 10 | Read Cole , speculating on the possibility of a revival , after the Second World War , of Producer Co-operation : That is an authoritative pronouncement of the view , prevailing for many decades , of the Consumer 's Movement 's attitude towards Producer Co-operation : the rival doctrine , not quite anathema , but something very like . |
| 11 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind prices prevailing for completed developments within the LDDC , developers and construction companies have gained enormous profits . |
| 13 | If there was one thing not ugly and absurd about that marriage , it was a small but irreversible change in her own situation . |
| 14 | A few years later , Helen Gardner , in her inaugural lecture , lamented the ‘ pressure to publish ’ on people working in English studies : ‘ there is something peculiarly distasteful and peculiarly absurd about forced labour in my field . |
| 15 | GERMANS are not often polite about British managers . |
| 16 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 17 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 18 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 19 | If rent remains outstanding for 21 days after the due date , forfeiture proceedings may be brought against a dilatory tenant by a strongwilled landlord . |
| 20 | Sex in private between consenting males over the age of 21 may have been legal since 1967 , but how far have attitudes really changed ? |
| 21 | AI now adopts as POC those ‘ persons who are imprisoned solely because of their homosexuality , including the practice of homosexual acts in private between consenting adults . ’ |
| 22 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 23 | Whatever the merits of Devlin 's position , of the crimes in private between consenting adults which he wished to retain , homosexuality , abortion , incest , pornography and prostitution have either been partially decriminalized or some proposals therefor have been put forward . |
| 24 | Burying her face in Luke 's chest to hide her blushes , Perdita asked him if he knew the Spanish for Super Tampax , and if they could stop for some on the way . |
| 25 | Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions . |
| 26 | It substituted Spanish for Austrian influence in southern Italy . |
| 27 | Blast is still going strong though , perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle . |
| 28 | Scotland 's only new acquisitions during the decade were twenty-one Class 318s , three-car versions of the Class 317 , to service the newly electrified Glasgow-Ayr/Largs routes , although 1989 also witnessed the first withdrawals proper ( apart from accident victims or asbestos units ) of the original Pressed Steel 1959 ‘ Blue Train' Class 303s , whose unrefurbished examples are due for early replacement by 100mph Class 321-type Class 320s . |
| 29 | For instance , if one of your customers is in financial trouble and he owes you money which is due in 20 days , you are much better off than if the debt does not fall due for 100 days . |
| 30 | ‘ … an ’ you 're due for Orderly Officer day after tomorrow . |