Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The novel opens with a series of quotations from well-known works of European literature loosely strung together with third-person narrative . |
| 2 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 3 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 4 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 5 | ‘ This Index only works well in some natural science fields and on American soil , and only in ‘ normal science ’ areas . |
| 6 | This measure was introduced in 1978 and protection only applies therefore from this date . |
| 7 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 8 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 9 | In Kendal prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class , and the Kendal yards , with the merchant 's house , the workers ' cottages , and the spinning and weaving lofts all packed together under close supervision opened up new conditions . |
| 10 | Local writer Thomas Hurtley ( who also , by the way , thought the Dales peaks at least as high as those in the Alps ) called Gordale a " Stupendous Pavilion of Sable Rock apparently rent asunder by some dreadful although inscrutable elementary convulsion " . |
| 11 | More directly , the cause of integration has been served by the formal incorporation of subjects hitherto taught separately into new programmes with new names . |
| 12 | An avid traveller in Mediterranean lands and an early exponent of the use of audio-visual teaching aids ( using lantern slides in a lecture in 1929 ) , he was the only man to have led his bride from Church under an archway of History notebooks suddenly held aloft by two lines of boys from School . |
| 13 | Both chromatographic methods thus consist essentially of two steps : 1 . |
| 14 | This condition generally responds rapidly to simple treatment . |
| 15 | This condition generally responds rapidly to simple treatment . |
| 16 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 17 | The day his lover finally comes home from that other city . |
| 18 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 19 | Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) . |
| 20 | These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly . |
| 21 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 22 | ‘ Those that do have relationships usually end up with strong and critical women , a reflection of their regimented life as an adolescent . |
| 23 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 24 | In contrast , the Cleanazoom Upright behaved capriciously in all the tests , its fevered whine a symptom of impotence rather than strained efficiency . |
| 25 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 26 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 27 | So there 's no clear indication that Samson ever lived here in that case then ? |
| 28 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 29 | Dr Hendron also hit out at some unionist politicians who , he claimed , condemned loyalist violence ‘ with a tongue in their cheek ’ . |
| 30 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |