Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 2 | Stop smoking and cut down on sugary snacks . |
| 3 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 4 | " I do dislike them when all the petals turn brown and flap about in that untidy way . " |
| 5 | You know , telling us everything about the Tories , what they 've done wrong and to go on from that , not telling us anything about how you 're gon na put it right . |
| 6 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 7 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 8 | Both are no doubt splendid residences in their own ways , but the fact is they are different and lived in by different people . |
| 9 | These schemes are regarded as models that should be extended to those whose disability is congenital or arises out of non-industrial disease or accident , for whom cover , though recently improved , is still only partial . |
| 10 | Each school 's proposal is read by the DCSL , Divisional Librarian and the ACL:E&SS , and accepted or sent back for further refinement as required . |
| 11 | And , try to keep warm and keep out of this wind . |
| 12 | Now it is fallen upon and twisted and embellished out of all recognition . |
| 13 | As a result , we shall end overcrowding by 1995 and slopping out by 1994 . |
| 14 | After all , it did not stretch to the floor but started at three feet six and went up to seven feet . |
| 15 | The interior space was about three metres across , a pastel yellow in colour , tubular and bulked out with strange-looking machinery which was attached to the crosshatched ‘ walls ’ . |
| 16 | If AUTO is used on its own , the line numbers will start at 10 and go up by 10 for each line . |
| 17 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 18 | I wanted them to ste start doing a self assessment on the child about their strengths and weaknesses leading o , into the I A P right and coming through with that what they would like to achieve in where they 'd like to go two years hence . |
| 19 | We kicked off at eleven and went on till three and there were I think six people stuffing er in the course of the day Bob Andy Mark and myself and Chris . |
| 20 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 21 | There is no reason at all to suppose that the policies of these states would have been more intelligent or less influenced by fear and ambition if they had been decided by parliaments elected on the widest and fairest franchise possible and carried out by diplomatic services freed from social distinctions . |
| 22 | Ireland 's Darren Clarke , Sweden 's Robert Karlsson and the veteran Argentine Vicente Fernandez all shot 67 , while Gilford birdied the last two holes to return 70 and hang on to second place — only two strokes behind his England Dunhill colleague . |
| 23 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 24 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 25 | Those which are being discarded , usually after 30 years and around 750,000 miles ( 1,200,000 km ) of service , are sold at £8,000 each and go on to another life overseas . |
| 26 | They stand 4 ½ft ( 1.4 m ) tall and weigh up to 220 lb ( 100 kg ) . |
| 27 | John stood 6ft tall and weighed in at 13½ stone , so he was ideally equipped for his onerous responsibilities although , like many big men , he was a quiet and serious fellow — a Sunday School teacher who frequently declined to play on Good Fridays or Christmas Day . |
| 28 | The neckguard was solid and beaten out of two sheets of metal and held to the cap by two riveted leather hinges with metal reinforcing bars . |
| 29 | YOU sound very dissatisfied and weighed down by all that is happening in your life . |
| 30 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |