Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour rules out ‘ blanket ’ credit control . |
| 2 | Cambridge have shown themselves to be fast starters but Bangert has sometimes lacked the rhythm to capitalise on an early lead , while Oxford , though led in practice races , have rowed strong opponents down . |
| 3 | Knock themselves totalled 307 as only eight clubs out of thirty in all will survive to the knockout stage . |
| 4 | One by one the client 's chains of increasingly irrational thoughts can be extracted rather like a magician pulling a series of connected handkerchiefs out of a pocket . |
| 5 | Aye but they 've got it now , there 's about eight copies out on the , all on the shelf gathering dust . |
| 6 | The only things he does n't like are the narrow ramps on to aeroplanes , so we have to get behind him with a broom . |
| 7 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 8 | He slipped out of the pony harness , withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage . |
| 9 | forty eight hours on with them and then forty eight hours off . |
| 10 | five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up . |
| 11 | forty eight hours on with them and then forty eight hours off . |
| 12 | KEEGAN 'S GLEE GUNS : Micky Quinn points the way to the Premier League for Newcastle — and the boss also has plenty to celebrate as the Geordies make it eight wins out of eight . |
| 13 | Yes , we 've achieved erm well at the signing of the season I think erm from Poole , and we 're also recalling Mark Carlson who was one of our junior riders out on loan to Stoke . |
| 14 | Then in September they paid £10m for Sea World , a group of eight marinas up and down the coast from Weymouth to Oban . |
| 15 | c ) How does the nervous system construct stable objects out of transient events ? |
| 16 | We can not get our raw materials in , we can not get unfinished projects out , so please can we push with the dealing of the A twelve so that we can get in and out of the south ? |
| 17 | MH : Quite apart from anything else , there are n't all that many professional artists around here , unlike London , so you tend to feel a bit isolated . |
| 18 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 19 | The club was just the right kind of venue for them to cut their professional teeth on , and she was glad to give them the opportunity . |
| 20 | they would n't shore that up because there are only about eight houses up there , so it does n't pay them |
| 21 | A rough guide , until you work out your own preferences , is to look for amplifiers of 100 watts for meetings up to 150 people ; 200 watts up to 500 people ; 500 watts up to 1,000 people and 1,000–1,500 watts up to 3,000 people . |
| 22 | Councillors , most of whom firmly believed that their representative should have close ties with the ministers of the crown , found in a candidate 's ability to place friends in local revenue offices and other patronage appointments , and equally , his ability to move political enemies out of such places in the district towns , an effective means of evaluating a candidate 's qualification for membership in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | The modules are structured into five levels , from Module 1 which is designed for complete beginners through to Module 5 , in which students attain a level of competence some way above that required for a pass at SEB Higher Grade . |
| 24 | ZOLA Budd-Pieterse tomorrow sets out to exorcise once and for all the wretched memory of her darkest hours back in Britain five years ago . |
| 25 | They were correct 92 times out of Ill , indicating very good awareness of the amount of time elapsed . |
| 26 | The shutters ' anchor points had to be welded to the hull and , especially at the stern where the windows wrapped round Wavebreaker 's counter , the bolts looked intrusive and ugly , but better that than to be a good-looking boat fifty fathoms down and still sinking . |
| 27 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 28 | Throwing mooring ropes out to the Continent to balance Britain 's over-strong anchor cables to America made sense to many people . |
| 29 | If a German soldier is killed by the partisans or by civilians , they take a certain number of political prisoners out and shoot them . ’ |
| 30 | Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . |