Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was grateful the bar was empty . |
| 2 | Glamorgan , needing 427 to win after starting the day on a 16 for three , were grateful the weather permitted only 17.1 overs . |
| 3 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 4 | Adopted without a vote on Nov. 22 , part B of Resolution 44/27 expressed the conviction that the system of apartheid could not be reformed and had to be eliminated , leading to the establishment of a united , non-racial and democratic South Africa . |
| 5 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 6 | She unplugged the percolator . |
| 7 | She unplugged the telephone and disconnected the doorbell , resolutely shutting herself off from the world as she manipulated her characters like pieces in a board game , reading their thoughts , putting speech into their mouths , controlling their destinies . |
| 8 | Juliette finished her task , put the trousers on a wooden hanger , hooked it over the back of a chair and unplugged the iron . |
| 9 | She unplugged the fridge and opened the door intending to let the fridge defrost . |
| 10 | Rather dear the shirt . |
| 11 | She unbuckled the yellowlegs ’ gunbelt , and cinched it around her hips . |
| 12 | He unbuckled the belt and , leaving it around Newley 's waist , looped it through the wheel and through the glassless window of the door . |
| 13 | Er it 's Norman the town crier at Leicester . |
| 14 | If you take a sample er , of ce the cera cereblis fluid during the course of acute bacteria meningitis you will find it 's drowning , drowning , not due the fact that it 's an organism , but present , being due to the presence of puss cells . |
| 15 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 16 | The Commons wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law , so that every landowner should have the right of free chase in his own lands and woods . |
| 17 | the quicker this happens , the more cost-effective the insulation is . |
| 18 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 19 | ‘ You remember how shy the father of Moseh was when Hamed 's father put the proposal ? |
| 20 | When the solar wind is weak the upwind magnetopause can lie 100 Jupiter equatorial radii ( R J ) from Jupiter . |
| 21 | If the systems are weak the sample size may need to be increased . |
| 22 | The less the variation in speed , the more monotonous the theme . |
| 23 | Research studies have shown that the more cohesive the group the higher the levels of group productivity and member satisfaction . |
| 24 | There is , however , one other problem requiring study which could illuminate the question of how profitable the war was . |
| 25 | The choice , then , between reform or revolution , involved two contemporaneous strands of development , the one towards political the other towards industrial democracy . |
| 26 | The lower the maturity , the more specific the objective and the lower the uncertainty involved . |
| 27 | The more specific the conclusion the better . |
| 28 | The accuracy of the recovery process hinges on just how specific the flagellae/pili antibodies are . |
| 29 | Find out how specific the tantrums are . |
| 30 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |