Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
2 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
3 | We stand either not guilty or condemned before a righteous God and are never excused or condemned because our actions fall above or below group expectations . |
4 | related to the existing er agricultural or related to the agricultural buildings , that will be put up before this is built . |
5 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
6 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
7 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |
8 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
9 | He wiped them clear and peered inside the smoking gap . |
10 | The slides were then washed in phosphate buffered saline and incubated with a 1:300 dilution of biotinylated anti-mouse antibody ( Dakopatts , Denmark ) . |
11 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
12 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
13 | So often compelled to be distant , at close quarters she is frank , informal , funny , direct and possessed of an uncanny ability to charm the least star-struck . |
14 | She looked to Alexandra disgustingly spry and healthy , rosy and refreshed after an excellent night and full of happy anticipation at hearing of the dinner party . |
15 | She had studied , worked , travelled some and blossomed into an attractive , intelligent , perhaps slightly too conventional , young woman . |
16 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |
17 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
18 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
19 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
20 | An Eppendorf reaction tube was suspended above the culture medium , the vial was gassed with 95% O 2 /5% CO 2 and closed with a rubber seal ( see Fig 1 ) . |
21 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
22 | ‘ He was very clever and went into an entire theatrical about the whole thing and produced pieces of paper with stamps on them . |
23 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
24 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
25 | A very good-value lunch can be enjoyed here , cooked and served to a high standard by the students of the school . |
26 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
27 | The first one was still exploding through my cortex as I gulped the second and reached for the third . |
28 | It is n't only that they enjoy commercial success and critical acclaim , but because they are , in the jargon of the trade , ‘ good copy ’ — talkative , controversial , witty and opinionated on a whole range of topics . |
29 | It was pitch dark and felt like the small hours ; there was no sound of traffic from the road at all , and he was on his own with a vengeance . |
30 | Further economic adjustments were announced on Dec. 10 but faced with the continuing collapse of the austral Rapanelli resigned as Economy Minister on Dec. 15 and was replaced by González [ see p. 37118 ] . |