Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] and [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite warnings of impenetrable ice , the crew of Knox-Johnston 's boat , the Suhaili , found the fjord clear and continued up the more problematic Watkins Fjord , dodging icebergs to reach the starting point for the climbing section of the expedition . |
| 2 | By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused . |
| 3 | On these rested the employers ' capacity to break any strike , while the union 's strength lay in its capacity to " picket out " the vessels and shipping offices concerned and to dry up the supply of blacklegs by intercepting the trains on which they arrived and by organizing the ports from which they had been recruited . |
| 4 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 5 | Hence ‘ Inspiringly Titled ’ , the live LP recorded at Kilburn National and featuring roughly the same set they toured with in the spring , from the opening ‘ Start ’ to the closing Hüsker Dü cover , ‘ Do n't Want To Know If You 're Lonely ’ . |
| 6 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( France , China , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) held their sixth meeting on the Cambodian problem on Aug. 27-28 and worked out a possible framework for a solution . |
| 7 | Bourne coloured and turned up the report . |
| 8 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Mr. E.J.W. ( Benny ) Goodman came as Secretary in July 1982 and saw out the year , being replaced by the present Secretary/Manager Brian Lovelock , first in an ‘ acting ’ capacity , but made permanent a year later . |
| 10 | With the decision to concentrate all Canberra units at Wyton , the OCU moved across in July 1982 and took over the accommodation vacated by 39 Squadron . |
| 11 | Some people carry a ten dollar bill , to keep the potential mugger happy and stave off an angry attack . |
| 12 | She forced her body wide and pressed up the length of him . |
| 13 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 14 | Get your priorities right and whittle away the non-essentials . |
| 15 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |
| 16 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 17 | She was pretty and crisply dark , her hair short and curling round a pointed face . |
| 18 | There are only 100 places available so turn to page 216 and fill in the coupon right away to book your place . |
| 19 | Copy the sales invoice on page 112 and fill in the following information : |
| 20 | The ( Castroist ) Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) bombed a dozen Lima banks on Nov. 4 and carried out a grenade attack on the presidential palace on Nov. 5 which wounded three people . |
| 21 | Turn to page 183 and fill in the couple to reach us no later than December 22 . |
| 22 | So if you like the look of this guitar turn to page 114 and check out the simple competition I 've devised . |
| 23 | Draw up two stock record cards like the one on page 108 and fill in the following information : |
| 24 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 25 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 26 | The best approach would have been to do the more straightforward bits first and to spend only the allocated time — 36 minutes — and no longer . |
| 27 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 28 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 29 | She opened the door wide and held back the dog , whose tail was beating wildly on the wall behind it . |
| 30 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |