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

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1 By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it .
2 The principle of this Lift is shewn in the general plan , section and details prepared in January 1886 and now completed and submitted to you .
3 The C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , was dismissed on July 2 but later claimed that he had retired " for personal reasons " .
4 Formed in May 1983 and formally launched that August , it had grown rapidly into a mass-membership anti-apartheid organization , its initial focus being its opposition to the regime 's " tricameral " constitutional plans [ see p. 32599 ] .
5 The bridge cost £10 million or more to build and successive Governments have supported the tolling of estuarial crossings of this nature .
6 A callous gunman who shot a German tourist dead and then shot and stabbed other members of the family has been jailed for life .
7 The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks .
8 There are times when we do not find each other attractive and even feel like we are not in love .
9 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom
10 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom
11 This suggests that subjects always identified a word first and then decided whether or not it rhymed ; and that the rhyme decision took about 140 milliseconds to make after the word had been identified .
12 In 1984 , it became common for bail conditions , following arrests during the strike , to require those charged not to visit any premises or place for the purpose of picketing or demonstrating in connection with the current trade dispute between the NUM and the National Coal Board other than peacefully to picket or demonstrate at their usual place of employment .
13 At last she sat down , her expression hostile but tightly controlled as she looked at him .
14 In some places the needles were several inches deep and easier to rake than autumn leaves on a tended lawn ; elsewhere they were saturated and packed , or buried among tangled creepers and virulent , shining ivy .
15 On 28 May , with the electricity all but completely cut and threats of sewage rising in the streets of Belfast , Faulkner resigned .
16 This serves to support some of the statements made in Section 12.5 and again emphasizes that a good index is one which permits effective retrieval .
17 The Middle East Economic Survey , a trade publication which maintains close contact with OPEC delegates , said in a special edition at the weekend that the cartel might have to cut its output ceiling by 678,000 bpd more than already planned if it wanted to raise oil prices from levels around $18 a barrel .
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