Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Needless to say , there was nothing intrinsically divine about such figures .
6 The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 If there was one thing not ugly and absurd about that marriage , it was a small but irreversible change in her own situation .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said .
12 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 .
13 Relief will not be due for any payments made direct to children of the marriage or any previous marriage .
14 Then again , another election was not due for some time , the FDP remained loyal to the coalition and Brandt 's international reputation stood high .
15 Payment is due for these delays under the terms of the contract .
16 ‘ I lose count , ’ went on Robert , ‘ but I 've got the feeling we 're due for another bout of banging the forehead on the carpet . ’
17 Leicestershire .... 26 North Midlands .... 28 WITH the County Championship due for another facelift , this winter 's finishing order will have a new significance and judging by last night 's lively encounter at Welford Road , North Midlands are well up with the situation .
18 ‘ Her Ladyship 's started in labour , though she 's not due for another couple of weeks and there 's no time to get the doctor and nurse from Malton , by the look of things . ’
19 Mueller then turned to the American Managing Director in charge of the British Components ' Division , who was due for another assignment after nearly two years in the UK .
20 We are due for another service and it 's this month , the yearly service .
21 The students were not due for another month , though the streets and cloisters were crowded with tourists , who were outnumbered only by their cameras .
22 As we were not due for another lesson till the next day I was n't carrying them with me .
23 Yeah we 're about due for another flood .
24 Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours .
25 Colchester had their second keeper Nathan Munsen sent-off for this challenge on Derek Hall …
26 Teachers may be apprehensive about any number of things .
27 In my experience , babies are remarkably placid through all sorts of family rows , so long as they are warm and well fed ; while they will infallibly disrupt the most harmonious scene if they have a pain . ’
28 Having led the world into polyester fibre and been highly profitable for many years , we lost the lead position due to a combination of circumstances .
29 They also found that the frequency and degree of mispricing declined as delivery approached and that , if a trading lag of ten minutes was incorporated , arbitrage remained profitable for all classes of arbitrageur .
30 You were n't right for each other !
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