Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six years later the traveller and writer Eric Newby had a chance meeting with Thesiger in the Hindu Kush . |
| 2 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 3 | A couple of hours and aching arms later the copper and brass was gleaming and sitting back to bask in satisfaction a voice soon broke the momentary pleasure . |
| 4 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 5 | Within this general description there are two basic types namely the batch and continuous loader . |
| 6 | He also made the observation , which was confirmed in this survey , that ‘ in many cases neither the farmer nor his wife were fully aware of the nature and extent of the wife 's influence ’ . |
| 7 | In children older than 11 months both the univariate and multivariate analyses suggest that a respiratory rate of 60/min is preferable to the suggested 70/min as a cut off value for the prediction of hypoxaemia . |
| 8 | When Alayn , for instance , rouses the miller , who he thinks is John , to brag of his success with a familiar and confiding jest : " " … thou swines heed , awake ! " " ( 4262 ) , the epithet is ironically appropriate to the miller , especially as sixteen lines later the clerk and the miller are fighting " " … as doon two pigges in a poke " " . |
| 9 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 10 | Even ten years ago the idea that English-speaking children should be educated completely in a foreign language for every subject , including science , without actual specific prior tuition or without reinforcement at home , would have been considered strange to say the least . |
| 11 | By recent Philippine standards both the campaign and the process of voting were conducted in a peaceful and orderly fashion , with no reported instances of large-scale or systematic fraud . |
| 12 | Conservative Western military analysts have expressed scepticism about Soviet statements that they are removing from their armed forces both the capability and the doctrine of a large-scale attack on western Europe . |
| 13 | In fact , although each volume was prepared under the ‘ haute direction de M. Camille Saint-Säens , the great man himself edited only the first five volumes exclusively the keyboard and chamber music and motets . |
| 14 | For security a lock on the front locks both the system and the keyboard . |
| 15 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 16 | In a spectacle as lurid and as colourful as the opening ceremony two weeks ago the city and the people handed the Olympic flag over to Atlanta , USA and 1996 . |
| 17 | Over recent years both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund have experienced an increase in welfare casework and this is also reflected by the other ex-Service charities . |
| 18 | Over recent years both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund have experienced an increase in welfare casework and this is also reflected by the other ex-Service charities . |
| 19 | In other instances either the adverb or the adjective may apparently be ungrammatical although its counterpart is fully acceptable : ( 55 ) many cats seem intelligently ( 56 ) the old stationmaster winked outrageous |
| 20 | The thorax is composed of three segments , the pro- , meso- and metathorax. in almost all insects each segment bears a pair of legs and in most adults both the meso- and metathorax carry a pair of wings . |