Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 3 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 4 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 5 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 6 | Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part . |
| 7 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 8 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |
| 9 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 10 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 11 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 12 | If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system . |
| 13 | For reasons given in the next section , we remain sympathetically sceptical . |
| 14 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 15 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 16 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 17 | The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot . |
| 18 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 19 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 20 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 21 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 22 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 23 | One nil Leicester twenty four minutes completed in the second half . |
| 24 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 25 | In this study , sulphate reducing bacteria must have been absent , or their activities limited in the non-methanogenic samples tested , because it is highly unlikely that methanogenic bacteria will displace sulphate reducing bacteria for this mutual growth substrate given an adequate supply of electron acceptor ( sulphate ) . |
| 26 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 27 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 28 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 29 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 30 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |