Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines .
2 Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides .
3 a record of the activities undertaken along with any results and conclusions ;
4 However , Karen 's quick intelligence and enthusiasm make up for any problems caused by her disability , and Janet says , she 's a big asset to the salon .
5 He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side .
6 Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril .
7 Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door .
8 The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance .
9 The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance .
10 So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other .
11 Gordon Taylor points out in last Friday 's Echo Soccer in Crisis investigation that not all players enjoy rich rewards from the game when their careers can be cut short .
12 With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex .
13 High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing .
14 Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy .
15 The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) .
16 Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans .
17 If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ?
18 Decorating your Christmas tree with chains made up of red chillies is just one of the original ideas in the company 's seasonal title Malcolm Hillier 's Christmas ( Price : £12.99 ) .
19 The Grandes Marques lose out to cheaper champagne
20 Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill .
21 This forecast rate of increase simply did not materialize , and once again British cities got by with incremental adjustments , while an accelerated process of decentralization helped to transfer traffic flows from the centre to a series of nodes within the city region .
22 He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear .
23 The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs .
24 An intense young woman , passionate about her are — and perhaps less passionate about being regarded as a ‘ portraitist ’ — Sarah kicks out against preconceived notions of current portraiture .
25 Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee .
26 If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job .
27 You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart .
28 Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English .
29 Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 .
30 Well A Alison goes out for one evening so that means I have to get back early for that evening
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