Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around us were mountains ; they were often half-smothered in cloud , but in the evenings this lifted and then the crests loomed over us , rain-washed , clear-cut and splendid . |
| 2 | the rules were not to do that , the ships were n't supposed to stop because apparently the submarines sometimes lurked there |
| 3 | In the top-down approach to indexing , the semantic net is first elaborated and then the paragraphs are indexed . |
| 4 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 5 | The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future . |
| 6 | The Court was entitled to see whether all the conditions necessary to the formation of a proper contract had been satisfied . |