Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos they used to have and a big handled my mother had sa saucepan and as big as this . |
| 2 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 3 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 4 | And a barrow , a very common sight , and this this type of er of awning , erm very very common , er the barge-boarding er and the er and and the again the roof and the er chimneys and very interesting sort of a In the garden erm of the sort of station master 's house , is that . |
| 5 | The research project will investigate in detail the employment creating effects of NCB ( E ) 's operations and how these relate to those of Local Authorities , Central Government Departments and other job-creating organiastions in the areas in which it operates . |
| 6 | A straddle position is a simultaneous long and short position in different months of the same futures contract , e.g. long one June ST3 contract and short one September ST3 contract . |
| 7 | He is , after all , an actor 's part and perfectly accessible — he prefers , too , to be acted rather than to be read . |
| 8 | In resolving doubt , how much is God 's part and how much is ours ? |
| 9 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |
| 10 | It is interesting to compare Gilligan 's criticisms of Kohlberg on this point with Robert Nozick 's parallel and equally cogent criticisms of Rawls . |
| 11 | There 's another scenario for the house on stilts , one for Jordan 's cottage and still another for the house in Salvation Street . ’ |
| 12 | Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’ |
| 13 | The Save-A-Can picture was taken on January 7 this year , just after the New Year 's festivities and therefore all of the recycling facilities for glass and cans were very well used . |
| 14 | Their eyes locked , Ruth 's cold and hostile , Fernando 's dark and totally impenetrable . |
| 15 | Being 18 , I was too old for many children 's homes and too young for adult residential homes . |
| 16 | It claims the new iron is three times faster than comparable Sun servers or IBM AS/400 equipment and twice that of an equivalent RS/6000 . |
| 17 | Sitting weeping in the bathroom Agnes demanded of herself how she could have been so responsive to every whim of Magill 's mood and so dull but demanding and clumsy with Maxim … |
| 18 | well what we do is that we we all know each-other 's hand- writing so we borrow each-other 's pens and like last night I did all of maths prep and he , we 'll both remember that , and then one night when I 'm like under a lot of pressure to do some prep , he 'll like return the favour |
| 19 | Liathach is the greatest challenge to Torridon 's visitors and only those of more than average energy and experience should accept it . |
| 20 | A modern commentator ( West 1967 ) writes , concerning a few hesitantly sketched lines of his own , " This is one man 's Horace and so delicate in the Latin that it protests at being made explicit . " |
| 21 | End up later on square 46 denoting Andrew and Fergie 's separation and down that snake you go . |
| 22 | Our present concept of field grew out of Dedekind 's work and also that of Kronecker , the basic notions being present already in the work of Abel and Galois . |
| 23 | Not in these days , for smoking in , but just a casual yet elegant loose jacket with a tie belt made in straight pieces like a very simple dressing gown — a truly marvellous garment to relax in after a hard day 's work and very good for either men or women . |
| 24 | When asked about the job ‘ scientist ’ , 69 per cent said that it was a man 's job and only 9 per cent said it was a woman 's job . |
| 25 | Hans-Hubert Schönzeler conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in the Bliss and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the Rubbra ( he is highly sympathetic to the composer 's sound-world and slightly austere emotional style ) . |
| 26 | In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself . |
| 27 | The overall level of support for independence among the republics ' ethnic-Russian and other minorities was higher than expected , especially in Latvia ( minorities constituted over 36 per cent of Estonia 's population and around 47 per cent of Latvia 's ) . |
| 28 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 29 | Rousseau 's judgements and highly insulting remarks about the Opéra 's instrumentalists were calculated to discredit the whole establishment : the ‘ woodchopper ’ was just the most prominent symbol of authoritarian decadence . |
| 30 | But he 's your mother 's husband and not available . |