Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W H Smith acquired it in 1903 and carried out a major expansion and refit in 1907 . |
| 2 | The company told the news agency that it has sold more than 200,000 of the 95LX model and will continue to sell both models — but ‘ We expect the 100LX to be even more popular and open up a whole new market . ’ |
| 3 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 4 | Guruji took over the building in 1963 and hung out a simple sign with the inscription Manasik Chikitsa Kendra — ‘ Centre for the Treatment of Mental Illnesses ’ . |
| 5 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 6 | Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool . |
| 7 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 8 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 9 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 10 | They turned off sharply to the left and headed up a straight , sloping road between sombre stands of oak and beech . |
| 11 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 12 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( France , China , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) held their sixth meeting on the Cambodian problem on Aug. 27-28 and worked out a possible framework for a solution . |
| 13 | Working on entirely different design principles , each successfully publicised their stunters to capture public attention in the mid 1970s and open up a new wave of enthusiasm . |
| 14 | She was pretty and crisply dark , her hair short and curling round a pointed face . |
| 15 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 16 | PREMIER John Major yesterday assured the Chancellor his job was safe and ruled out a festive Cabinet shake-up . |
| 17 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 18 | Take a tiny piece of fondant , colour it red and cut out a forked tongue . |
| 19 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 20 | The weathercock , caught by the breeze , swung sharply round and let out a loud , cross ‘ Cock-a-doodle-doo ! ’ right in Carol 's ear . |
| 21 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 22 | Pages produced by a page printer are , therefore , relatively expensive and running off a thousand copies of a 10 page price list will put a severe dent in the machines life expectancy . |
| 23 | The church is Romanesque and approached along a tree-clad path that makes a very pleasant change from the more normal city approach — straight off the road . |
| 24 | He flew a meteor in 1944 and shot down a German doodlebug flying bomb . |