Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 2 | Well a bit more than eight pounds actually , it was over eight pound over half a stone . |
| 3 | As P had previously been cautioned , and also cautioned before interview on the further charge only half an hour before he came to write his statement , it might not have occurred to them that a further caution was necessary . |
| 4 | Cricket in Sri Lanka is indeed a tough job with the high humidity as big a factor as the near 100 degree temperatures and the weather does add extra pressure on England 's players at the end of a long and arduous tour as they try to regain a little bit of their lost pride . |
| 5 | This week then all the time ? |
| 6 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 7 | Best taken on an empty stomach so half an hour before food . |
| 8 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 9 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 10 | All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels . |
| 11 | Have n't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription ? |
| 12 | Erm , but still getting , but we maybe getting a broader front on either focus too narrow a beam , sometimes it 's too difficult to get that narrow boat to be on exactly the right spot . |
| 13 | a white line about half a centimetre from the edge of the work being put on . |
| 14 | She then kneads it with her mandibles and front legs into a soft pellet about half the size of her head and flies off with it to her building site . |
| 15 | God has ‘ given all mankind so sufficient a light of reason , that they … could not ( whenever they set themselves to search ) either doubt of the being of a God , or of the obedience due to Him ’ . |
| 16 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 17 | The low sun made the street wall cast a long black shadow over half the garden , but it stopped just to the right of her patch . |
| 18 | We could see the burning kite about half a mile away , and the blood wagon and fire engine racing to the rescue . |
| 19 | This hotel is set on a beautiful bay about half a mile from Diamante . |
| 20 | These muscles are under the control of postural reflexes which ensure a level of tonic continuing activity almost all the time ( unlike , for instance , the large muscles in the arms and legs ) . |
| 21 | Workers flocked to Middlesborough from all over the place ; according to the 1871 census nearly half the town 's population were born outside Yorkshire . |
| 22 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 23 | As she tentatively slid one ski forwards half an inch , the other decided it would rather proceed in a sideways direction , and , with a strangled squawk , she hit the deck , an ungainly tangle of arms , legs and ski-sticks . |
| 24 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 25 | The Villa Carla is a two-storey villa in a quiet , spacious garden about half a mile from the centre of Forte dei Marmi . |
| 26 | Smoke hangs in a yellow pall over half the country . |
| 27 | Chapman was sure of his assessment , however ; and though James was just as fussy about the terms of his transfer as Jack had been , he found the bright lights of the big city too attractive a prospect to refuse Chapman 's offer . |
| 28 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 29 | Historically , the Christian churches had exceptionally close links with education : indeed in the early nineteenth century almost all the impetus for setting up schools and teacher-training establishments and extending schooling to all children came from the churches . |
| 30 | The Intoxicating Substance Supply Act , passed in 1985 , makes it an offence to supply to a young person under 18 a substance which the supplier knows , or has reason to believe , will be used ‘ to achieve intoxication ’ . |