Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported that a small altar dominated his room , decorated with the withered heads of animals forensics could not identify , its centre-piece an idol of such explicitly sexual a nature no newspaper dared publish a sketch of it , let alone a photograph . |
| 2 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 3 | In 1982 there were 5585 live births to mothers aged 16 and under ; for those under 16 the figure was 1281 . |
| 4 | In 1094 however such a future would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 5 | And on that very instant the waterfall was turned to red wine , and there were men with staves , making casks , men stoking furnaces to make bottles , men collecting the wine . |
| 6 | Children , it is suggested , need to be inducted into the main forms or aspects of the culture they live in , partly because this will equip them to lead full adult lives , and partly because culture seems to some as inclusive a concept as one can find for planning a general education . |
| 7 | With 33000 general practitioners working 30 years or more ( ages 35 to 65 ) this means an annual retirement vacuum of 1100 ; add to this perhaps 400 a year who retire or expire earlier or who move out of general practice , and this adds up to 1500 . |
| 8 | ‘ They mean us ! ’ gasped Breeze , and at that very instant the door opened , and they had a glimpse of two figures , one large and one small . |
| 9 | At that very instant the fluff throws in the towel and sashays from view . |
| 10 | More fundamentally perhaps , people are asking themselves , ‘ Why did we all want English medium anyway ? ’ and there is a rather bitter feeling around that perhaps all the enthusiasm , all the euphoria about ‘ new methods ’ ought to have been preceded by a sober consideration of ‘ new objectives . ’ |
| 11 | In 1900 , the country was still largely dependent on exports of textiles , metals and coal , whereas by 1987 nearly half the country 's exports were accounted for by ‘ machinery and transport equipment ’ and chemicals . |