Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty or so of the females formed a tight cluster , joined hands and walked backwards until they formed the circumference of a large circle . |
| 2 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 3 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 4 | This was a consistent finding in all the research reported in this thesis , it seems to reflect the fact that even simulated driving tasks are highly engaging and quite unlike the tasks psychologists usually ask their subjects to perform . |
| 5 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 6 | The important tactic with this type of start is to decide whether to start early or late in the gates ‘ opening ’ . |
| 7 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 8 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 9 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 10 | Fly right to the platform under the last button you hit , go up and collect the arrow , go down and right , go left and right through the platforms to get to the bottom , at the bottom go up the other side of the wall , collect the star and fly left over the spikes , collect the arrow and recharge your flying abilities on the star , fly right and go down , go right to the star in the grass , collect it and fly up , push the crate down , fall down . |
| 11 | He was aware of the parts of it that remained unchanged and equally of the innovations . |
| 12 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 13 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 14 | This decline was due to both the sale of council dwellings and to fewer starts , which — at perhaps 20,000 or so in the mid-1980s — represents about one-fifth the early 1970s total . |
| 15 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 16 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 17 | It is a question Michael Joseph is likely to ponder long and hard over the weeks to come . |
| 18 | The medical examining committee met at the Crown & Anchor tavern up to 31 July 1809 and thereafter at the Freemasons ' tavern until at least 1821 . |
| 19 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 20 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 21 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 22 | And of course , you could say that , that could be happening more and more with the advances in medical science . |
| 23 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 24 | As Sartre insists more and more upon the virtues of specificity ( II , 200 — 05 ) , such is his distaste for Marxist or any other universalizing categories that he refuses even to countenance them , attempting to replace concepts with specificities , universals with singulars . |
| 25 | He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition . |
| 26 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 27 | More persuasively , it has to be borne in mind that these are passages which need to be read in the context not only of the cases in which they were concerned but also of the judgments as a whole . |
| 28 | But in terms of the preparation for that , in bidding for grant aid , and it was very much tied into a successful bid for grant aid , that was forthcoming but only on the grounds that the scheme was committed by the end of December . |
| 29 | Energy was extracted from boreholes that ran through MID and DEEP into the depths of the planet . |
| 30 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |