Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the first pruning , take each stem down to a suitable bud , so that ideally it is reduced to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10 cm ) in length . |
| 2 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 3 | This will be followed , in due course , by a further three-quarters of a mile of track , a run round loop and the construction of a platform at the River Avon , allowing passengers to enjoy the walk , boat trips , riverside pubs and a possible link up with a local country park . |
| 4 | Arthur Penn made a remarkable tall story out of a similar theme in Little Big Man , a sympathetic account of American-Indian life filmed 20 years before Dances With Wolves . |
| 5 | This emphasized the shift in Labour support out of the Distressed Areas . |
| 6 | Say the following sentences up to time and you may have little difficulty in including the missing words shown by the dots . |
| 7 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 8 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |
| 9 | Thrust your lower foot out with an active push , rather than the passive snap used in some styles . |
| 10 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 11 | mm , did you take that tape out in the other room ? |
| 12 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 13 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 14 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 15 | Ybreska vaulted over the low , crumbling wall surrounding the old churchyard on to the rough pitted track which led towards Tbilisi . |
| 16 | So powerful is that consideration , it is argued , that it lifts this case out of the ordinary Cyanamid considerations ( see American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 ) , in which the concern of the court is to preserve the subject matter and accept the risk that if the court should refuse the child may die before final decision , as a result of an intervening choking fit from which only ventilation could save him . |
| 17 | SAVE 's proposal was to transfer the ‘ air rights ’ of the old building on to the lorry-park site . |
| 18 | This time Endill drew him a map and pointed out the quickest route back to the main corridor . |
| 19 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 20 | I thought of this killer out on the empty , wild moor , and I felt more and more uncomfortable about my surroundings . |
| 21 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |
| 22 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 23 | ‘ It just sounded really funny coming out of an ambient track . |
| 24 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 25 | So I 've set this boy up with a regular income . |
| 26 | I use a 300gsm Arches rough cotton watercolour paper , and brushes ranging from a no3 for detailed work through to a one inch for broad colour washes . |
| 27 | Well , we certainly ought to try , and if we ca n't then there 'll be a very good case for generous compensation out of the secret funds . ’ |
| 28 | Despite a lingering tendency to see the Chinese cult of the dead as a simple and direct projection on to the mystical plane of the strict code of filial piety controlling the behaviour of sons towards their fathers , recent studies by Sinological anthropologists are increasingly adopting a wider cosmological perspective which places the dead , where they naturally belong , among the other spirits and forces of traditional Chinese religion . |
| 29 | The dramatic development of transplant surgery brought this issue out of the restrained polemics of academia into the hurly-burly of public discussion . |
| 30 | He stared across the table at me , rolling the empty tumbler around on the wooden table-top . |