Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Figure 2.15A we can imagine a segment of the Earth 's surface ( ABE ) which has split into two , the two halves ( ABC and ADE ) remaining in contact only at point A. Point A is the pole of rotation about which movement occurs , and the separation of originally adjacent points on each segment occurs along small circles about this point . |
| 2 | Her eyes tightly closed in a vain attempt to hold back more tears , she could not see his expression , but she did hear his harsh intake of breath . |
| 3 | Cold , I descended out of the narrow cleft to seek out more sport . |
| 4 | It is interesting to compare these figures with the results of a survey of interim reporting carried out 10 years ago for the Institute publication The role of interim accounts and preliminary profit announcements in financial reporting in the UK ( 1982 ) . |
| 5 | THE wail of pipe music is overlaid with the gentle sound of running water , low-key light picks out dappled hues of rust and ochre stretching from horizon to sky as three black-clad figures weave lazy patterns across a dusty landscape . |
| 6 | New American money is watched very closely ; old money flogging off Grand Tour treasures ( the Duke of Beaufort 's cabinet sold for £8.58 million to baby- powder heiress Basia Johnson ) ; even auction-house staff ( how many people are in love with Grey Gowrie ? |
| 7 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 8 | When this skatepark closed down one ramp went to Wokingham . |
| 9 | This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries . |
| 10 | I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline . |
| 11 | But she smiled to herself , as she thought again of the handsome Spaniard with those black eyes full of a sense of fun and adventure , that mane of glossy hair falling over one eye — and his dark brown velvet voice , which had melted her heart a lot more than she admitted to Rosie . |
| 12 | This study sets down some navigation buoys for the course between the Scylla of growing research costs , and the Charybdis of cuts in national science budgets . |
| 13 | It is like a digestive aid breaking down some foods , such as wheat , into more digestible and more edible forms . |
| 14 | Lyric Fantasy burst onto the scene in last year 's Queen Mary Stakes , and her stablemates Pommes Frites and Risky bid to follow up this time round . |
| 15 | Lyric Fantasy burst onto the scene in last year 's Queen Mary Stakes , and her stablemates Pommes Frites and Risky bid to follow up this time round . |
| 16 | A BRITISH soldier beat up four women after a drinking binge . |
| 17 | Marine bid to make up lost ground in the HFS League when they take on Gainsborough Trinity at College Road . |
| 18 | And another study coming out next week reveals that health service employees are turning to medication because of high levels of stress resulting from staffing cuts and increased workloads . |
| 19 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 20 | One day the married niece asked if she could use Auntie 's old sewing-machine to run up some curtains : her own machine had broken down . |
| 21 | As this column pointed out last June , Americans are increasingly coming to regret the untimely death of their own consumer electronics industry . |
| 22 | The old lady fetched out another plate and cup and saucer , then she checked that our hands were clean and told us to sit down . |
| 23 | The British 2nd Corps encountered the enemy on 10 October west of La Bassee , but , in face of heavy fighting , the German thrust petered out 10 days later with the British still about 1.6km/1ml west of the town . |
| 24 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 25 | He looked as if he was reciting some charm to ward off evil spirits . |
| 26 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 27 | A companion to their recent Best of , this compilation gathers up sixteen songs from the ruins of their turbulent eight-year career , from the glorious shambles of their rudimentary punk-folk anthems to their later , less convincing , forays into more exotic territories . |
| 28 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 29 | Some have a marked reluctance to break out new growth from the base , and are more ready to sprout shoots from growth high up . |
| 30 | The Consumers ' Association This body carries out independent tests on a wide variety of consumer goods and services . |