Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel a bit dozy and dull this month , with a propensity for lying on your back in the sun , dreaming of bygone days . |
| 2 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 3 | To assist project teams , the Enterprise Centre repeated its successful workshop on project evaluation in March 1993 and issued written guidance on the preparation and structure of project reports . |
| 4 | The fifth patient with a pouch vaginal fistula also had repeated episodes of pouchitis unresponsive to metronidazole and steroids , and developed multiple superficial pouch perineal and pouch vaginal fistulas , which were managed by laying them open and a proximal diverting ileostomy ; her ileostomy has now been closed and she has a good functional result . |
| 5 | Bush visited Japan on Jan. 7-10 and held several sessions of talks with the beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , when they agreed on a vaguely worded Tokyo Declaration which expressed the commitment of the two countries to work together in support of a new world order . |
| 6 | It is some three centuries old and commemorates three individuals , two men and a woman , who died in the sectarian ‘ killing times ’ of this period . |
| 7 | The assays were validated against high performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) for the LTB 4 assay and against gas chromatography and mass spectrometry ( GCMS ) for the TXB 2 and PGE 2 assay . |
| 8 | In descending order of size the PCR products corresponded to an 800 bp product in which AD1 is spliced ; a 500 bp product in which AD1 and repeat 11 are spliced ; and finally a 250 bp product which included only the repeat 10 and repeat 13 sequences . |
| 9 | The BCG divided its matrix into four quadrants as shown in figure 4.1 and gave each quadrant a name to signify how the products in it should be treated . |
| 10 | The new curricular teaching and examinations are very labour intensive and have considerable resource implications . |
| 11 | The services provided by local government are labour intensive and have fewer opportunities than other branches of the economy for introducing labour-saving equipment . |
| 12 | One classic example was of a girl getting a pound fine and losing three days ' remission for giving another girl a cigarette paper . |
| 13 | I did , but , how much for a single , two pound sixty and return two pound seventy . |
| 14 | The symbol is illustrated in Figure 6.7 and contains more information on the provisions of the plan than does CPM . |
| 15 | The symbol is illustrated in Figure 6.7 and contains more information on the provisions of the plan than does CPM . |
| 16 | There are partial sequences for the C-terminal domains of two other receptors IP 3 R 3 and IP 3 R 4 ( refs 28 , 29 ) . |
| 17 | She lay on her back , her usually sallow face rosy , her mouth open and emitting regular snores which , though reasonably genteel , would have horrified her if she had heard them . |
| 18 | A cockerel goes cock-a-doodle-do , and a prostitute stands with her legs open and says any cock 'll do . |
| 19 | GDA is promoting the development of two Food Parks — at Port Dundas and at Cambuslang — costing £15 million and providing 355,000 sq.ft. to cater for this demand . |
| 20 | A tiny Leith Marine Stokers ' Union was formed in July 1893 but disappeared three years later " on grounds of scarcity of members " . |
| 21 | She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and began legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights which safeguards against inhuman or degrading treatment and protects the ‘ right to respect for private and family life ’ . |
| 22 | She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and launched legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the Human Rights Convention which safeguards against ‘ inhuman or degrading ’ treatment and protects ‘ the right to respect for private and family life ’ . |
| 23 | Phase 1 started in July 1980 and lasted 3 years , during which 2.5 million households were visited . |
| 24 | The preferential debts of the employees are set out in Schedule 6 to the Insolvency Act 1986 and include four months ' wages and accrued holiday remuneration . |
| 25 | The hardwood forest trees in this picture were at least 100 feet tall and took 400 years to grow . |
| 26 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 27 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 28 | ( My red-tailed buzzard , on the other hand , can drag a fully grown rabbit in her claws , but then she is two feet tall and weighs 3 pounds or more , nearly four times Dawn 's weight . ) |
| 29 | The plaintiff now seems to have the option of applying to join the new defendant in the existing proceedings as happened in Liff v Peasley [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 623 or starting separate proceedings and relying on Thompson v Brown . |
| 30 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |