Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | On mountain flanks within 5° of the South Pole they cover less than 1% of the ground ; on damper coastal flats and uplands they may spread to 15% cover or even more . |
2 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
3 | What we 're going to try and find out erm so instead of having these three hours and things we 'll say at at three o'clock it goes through Manchester and at five o'clock it goes through Carlisle . |
4 | This will form a braid or plait very common in Aran knitting With a selection of these traditional braids and cables it would be very easy to produce a typical Aran sweater on your machine . |
5 | We have n't quite got the hang of it , square houses and straight roads , with our little round huts and coracles we can only go round in circles . |
6 | To the relatively small numbers involved in many cultural organizations and associations we must add the characteristic of relatively short , often extremely short , duration . |
7 | In their black top hats and tailcoats they looked more like vultures than ever . |
8 | And then er the man that went round with all these knives and things he went down to the to the soo cray if you ken what that is . |
9 | ‘ I have many more characters and stories I 'd like to share with you , ’ said Ms Norman at the end of the advert . |
10 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
11 | She could imagine dark-robed figures moving silently along the stone corridors in place of the healthy young men and women she knew to be living inside . |
12 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
13 | Well , those beautiful ones , those beautiful heads and things he did after he met that girl called Marie-Thérèse Walter I always think those are so beautiful . |
14 | By the end of their first three months as partners they declared a profit of four pounds eleven shillings , despite having a gas oven refitted at Salmon 's and allowing Charlie to buy his first second-hand suit . |
15 | ‘ Any patients with potential problems will probably have notes from their GP , advising on any specific treatments or medication they may be taking , and you 'll probably get one or two who feel seasick . ’ |
16 | Try to anticipate any controversial subjects and disasters you might have to mention , or avoid mentioning , in the course of your speech . |
17 | RETIRED gardener Eric Lawes was today looking forward to a glowing future as a probable multi-millionaire after a coroner 's jury decided that a hoard of 14,000 Roman coins and jewellery he found with his metal detector is treasure trove . |
18 | as well as any current diseases and drugs you may be taking to treat them . |
19 | If you have any built-in cupboards or closets you are home and dry — literally — as far as storage is concerned ; if you have not , and there is really no room at all for any sort of full-length closet , have a hat stand or , failing this , a row of hooks to take not only your own family 's coats , but those of visitors . |
20 | By now you will have become an old hand at completing charts , logging your daily weight and entering any adverse reactions and symptoms you may have experienced . |
21 | If you need any other details or information I will be more than happy to supply them . |
22 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
23 | Keep in touch if your child watches without you ; take note of any new phrases or ideas she has , and remember they may have come from television . |
24 | Thus , the rate for B would be which is now consistent with the fact of uniformly lower age-specific rates than A. You can check that standardizing A by B 's population gives a rate for A of 12.2 against B's 11.0 . |
25 | If you want to include specific special troops or machines you 'll have to tailor your army appropriately . |
26 | ARGUMENTATIVE If so , what are the main conflicting positions or theories you are evaluating ? |
27 | The basic sequence was clear enough , and to most nineteenth-century naturalists and geologists it was self-evidently a progressive development from lower or simpler forms of life to higher or more complex ones . |
28 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
29 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |