Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One old lady sitting upright , prim and wearing round National Health Service glasses , became agitated as I approached her chair . |
| 2 | Without needing to do more than put down sporadic resistance from the more independent clans , the 30,000 Syrian troops guarding the Bekaa for the heroin cartel were allowed to augment their pay by up to $1 billion a year in protection money . |
| 3 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 4 | Jim Byrd bolted a line left of Route of All Evil and finished up True Path to produce Eraser Head E5 6b . |
| 5 | The man was excited and let out raucous laughter , sounding like a cross between a throaty American and a macaw . |
| 6 | Movements have accused existing parties of not reflecting the true political nature of the country , ‘ stocking the pores of civil society and frustrating and screening out political dissent ’ , thereby limiting activity in the public domain . |
| 7 | In order to keep exports competitive and to shore up foreign exchange reserves , the government decided to allow the peso to float freely . |
| 8 | Evidence was reinterpreted that might seem to count against them : for example , the Earth 's long geological history , which seemed impossible if it were just a cooling sphere ; or the Sun 's apparently endless emission of energy , which was hard to explain in terms of its being made of coal , or fuelled by meteors , or contracting and giving out gravitational energy as heat and light . |