Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment he was n't there , the next he was , a shabby , monkeyish little man with his mouth wide open and an expression of horrified bewilderment . |
| 2 | And this was the ocean that Vasco Núñez de Balboa had found — an immensity quite unimaginable but a void which , he must have known , was now no longer unbridgeable . |
| 3 | ‘ The auditorium will seat around 800 and the idea is to give more people a chance to enjoy the spectacle of the Dudley Stationary Open Veterans ’ Week , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Children were accustomed to assuming adult sex roles very early and the attainment of puberty was not signified by external manifestations of maturity . |
| 5 | Under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , ss.5 and 6 , it is an offence punishable with a maximum of life imprisonment for a man to have sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 and an offence punishable with a maximum of two years ’ imprisonment if the girl is under 16 . |
| 6 | It is equally an offence to administer drugs to a woman for a similar purpose or to procure a girl under 21 or a defective to have sexual intercourse with a third party in any part of the world . |
| 7 | This ensures some very expensive damage in the event of the fuselage falling over , whereas without the tailplane very little or no damage is likely . |
| 8 | Uplifts of 1–2 km can apparently be produced if the crust experiences very little or no extension and the lithosphere is stretched by a large amount ( Box 4.2 ) . |
| 9 | I mean you 'll work out whether it 's a bit more reactive or a bit less . |
| 10 | Christmas dinner around the dining table will be rare treat and John says : ‘ Now the children are growing up , we hope they 'll be a bit more sensible and a bit less like unguided missiles . ’ |
| 11 | She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own . |
| 12 | We have to tax those parking spaces , make them use the Park and Drive , but we 've got to get the carrot there first and the carrot is a much better operated Park and Drive . |
| 13 | We arrived at our takeout point around 7.30 and the van was waiting . |
| 14 | 1.20:DAVID Elsworth 's Muse heads the market due to a brave success from Morley Street over two and a half here last month . |
| 15 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 16 | This all sounds rather daunting but a number of teachers have received grants under the sponsored research programme , the most notable example being Andrew Mellor and his study of bullying in Scottish secondary schools . |
| 17 | I looked along a line of patients and recognized a back still straight and a head still proudly held . |
| 18 | And now it was yesterday and the day before that and the day before that . |
| 19 | He is a very skilled and brilliant player , also a proper gentleman on the court very fair and no matter who he plays , whether a low ranked or high ranked player , he has great respect for them . |
| 20 | The mist was now so dense it was more like a sea fog , the humidity very high and the sweat dripping from my forehead as I leaned forward , my eyes straining to see through the murk . |
| 21 | Robin never married and the earldom became extinct . |
| 22 | One day you might take out a screw too many and the world will fall apart . ’ |
| 23 | They held each other very close but the evening was spoilt . |
| 24 | He thought the agenda too large and the business too hurried . |
| 25 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 26 | They broke down to some extent , particularly in Bohemia , the former administrative separatism of the provinces , and provided the monarchy with an income far greater and an army far stronger than it had ever possessed before . |
| 27 | After breakfast we left the inn and got on the track , which , with care , need not be lost sight of in good weather , except in haze or severe rain , when there is danger at one or two places , where a ceaseless flow of moisture over a rich soil keeps the grass so green and the ground so soft , no path is traceable now and again . |
| 28 | ‘ ( two ) because staff levels so low and no turnover ’ … ‘ none apart from pre-licentiate programmes ’ … ‘ none at all ’ … ‘ one external course plus health and safety training ’ . |
| 29 | She had waited long after midnight in the empty street until the Muckrakers doors were thrown open and ‘ the squeakies ’ filled the street with shouts of resentment at being fetched from their pleasures so early and the sound of long , passionate , gossiping farewells until school on Monday morning . |
| 30 | Availability of non-thoracotomy ICD systems will make the prophylactic use of the ICD more attractive and the technique may ultimately find a wider application in the management of high-risk patients after myocardial infarction . |