Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sole income is invalidity benefit of £65.75 per week . |
| 2 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 3 | So why should not his political successors be war criminals ? |
| 4 | Most of those in rural districts were note issuers , as we know urban banks in Newcastle , Norwich , Bristol , Sheffield and Birmingham to have been . |
| 5 | The men who occupied the little boxlike houses were day workers , hired for the fields . |
| 6 | Top funds are Fidelity Cash Account , Pru Cash Haven and Mercury Cash Trust . |
| 7 | A popular sandwich is peanut butter and jam ( jelly ) . |
| 8 | NEW on the Mega Drive from Electronic Arts is helicopter sim LHX Attack Chopper . |
| 9 | The only RPG that you wo n't get too embarrassed buying is Toe Jam And Earl , an ideal chill-out kind of game about two alien rappers who strut the screen looking for the missing parts of their spaceship so they can return to planet Funkotron . |
| 10 | A high proportion were repeat visitors who appeared to be on good terms with the reception and service staff . |
| 11 | For most foreign investors involved in export processing in low wage locations , foreign plants are cost centres , rather than profit centres . |
| 12 | In the early 1980s , many British bands were household names in the USA without having toured there . |
| 13 | Stoddard Mattor specialise in designing ultra modern carpet squares for offices , using plain bonded carpet where strips of different colours are hand cut and joined together . |
| 14 | The only thing in which Britain held a clear lead was price increases — 10 per cent compared with 2 per cent in Germany . |
| 15 | Four out of every five problem drug users were found to be opioid users , the only other salient group being cannabis users , the majority of whom were known only through police arrests for possession ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 16 | In view of my right hon. Friend 's waiting lists initiative , will he take special cognisance of that point and balance the distribution of that resource to reflect the age structure ? |
| 17 | The English title picks up a thread running through the film in which the characters quote from the lyrics of the song , linking it with their own lives ; the French title is Daddy Nostalgie . |
| 18 | The slim volume was unearthedby Desmond Hawkins , a Hardy scholar , while he was working on a biography of his hero . |
| 19 | The old woman was gypsy brown , the tan so shiny on the mild skin that it was like a fresh varnish . |
| 20 | By 1904 most of the best of non-academic German painters were Secession members , and after the St Louis affair even most establishment figures did not take academic painting seriously . |
| 21 | In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse . |
| 22 | Other more specialised techniques are trombe walls and double envelope construction . |
| 23 | A noteworthy recent example of the use of Article 100 in the area of social policy is Council Directive 91/533 on an employer 's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship , where it is quite simply asserted in the recitals that ‘ differences in the legislation of Member States may have a direct effect on the operation of the common market ’ . |
| 24 | I do n't know about short-sighted , but the old crone was colour blind . |
| 25 | ADD argue that their method of dealing with the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy is simpler than that used by Barro ( 1977a ) , in which the equivalent fiscal variable is government expenditure relative to its normal level . |
| 26 | The Old Rectory is County Restaurant of the Year for Gwynedd in this year 's Good Food Guide , and Vaughan 's fare on the no-choice , £22-per-head menu is described as displaying much skill . |
| 27 | ‘ The majority of compulsive spending is comfort spending — and in order to cure it , it 's necessary to confront the cause of your discomfort , the emotional pain which shopping only temporarily eases . ’ |
| 28 | Among interesting developments are Dalesman homes by Hogg the Builder at Riccall and Haxby and Barratt developments at Fixby , Acaster Malbis and Catterick . |
| 29 | In the presence of intractable cervical pain , neurological deficits , or myelopathy , or combinations of these , the recommended procedures are halo stabilisation and surgical arthrodesis . |
| 30 | Restructured urban space and the visual arts in the modernist city were mirror images of one another . |