Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked the plain chops and boiled potatoes and greens ; most of all he liked the rice puddings with a well of red jam in the centre and evaporated milk poured on to cool it all . |
| 2 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 3 | Then at last , desperate , Alexandra had leaned towards her nearest neighbour , a pale aristocratic child with thin mouse-coloured hair tied up in blue ribbons and said , meaning only to establish identity , ‘ Who is your father ? ’ |
| 4 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 5 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
| 6 | In the following year , indeed , Joan of Arc was captured at Compiègne and in May 1431 , after what was a political trial carried out under ecclesiastical rules , she was condemned and burned at Rouen . |
| 7 | The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs . |
| 8 | Now , the , there , it appears that there 's a whole variety of phenomena er which suggests that sentence divides up in this way and that can be explained on hypothesis we just call such a division a constituent , and then we stipulate that , as certain operations can only apply to constituents . |
| 9 | Each diver kitted up with 470 cubic feet of air each in four tanks , two side mounted and two front mounted , breathing through Poseidon valves . |
| 10 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 11 | Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury . |
| 12 | We 've already got a fabulous programme lined up for 1992 and we all look forward to seeing lots of you then . |
| 13 | One thing all the armies had in common was a careful explanation of their presence , a specific mandate set out in such complex detail that officials of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry were sometimes still trying to decipher its true meaning when the army in question was retreating out of Lebanon . |
| 14 | More serious , probably , was the extensive deforestation carried out by neolithic farmers from around 8000 BC onwards : a deforestation which , for example , denuded Scotland in the centuries before the Romans came . |
| 15 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 16 | seeking improved materials , Daedalus has been inspired by pumice-stone , which is solidified from molten volcanic lava foamed up by volcanic gases . |
| 17 | Whether this change comes about within one year , over a thousand year span , or perhaps over the weekend — I do not know , though geologically all such time-spans are short periods . |
| 18 | The second Serbian rising broke out in 1815 in the Valjevo district , and soon spread throughout the Šumadija . |
| 19 | So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles . |
| 20 | Piers did n't look in the slightest bit put out by this statement . |
| 21 | Another correspondent came up with this analogy : ‘ It 's comparable to requiring Detroit to produce automobiles that can be overtaken by faster police cars . ’ |
| 22 | This story led on to another one . |
| 23 | Save time and effort in the daily struggle to keep up with major issues . |
| 24 | Another hill-top gave on to more hills . |
| 25 | Extra supplies over and above what has been contracted from Algeria will be necessary over the next decade , partly due to increased demand and partly due to possibly reduced supply from the Netherlands , this contract running out in 1992 . |
| 26 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 27 | The village school comprises one old building dating back to 1868 and two modern buildings with ample playing field facilities . |
| 28 | He continued : " This experience boils down to one point : we must integrate the fundamental principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution and national development and keep to our own road . " |
| 29 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 30 | This study arose out of two concerns . |