Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork . |
| 2 | Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output . |
| 3 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 4 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 5 | Although the Romans maintained a number of marching camps across the Lowlands such as those at Pennymuir , Roxburgh , and Glenlochar in Kirkcudbrightshire , signal stations on heights such as the Eildon Hills , and sentinel forts substantially reinforced at one time and another , these were subjected to repeated tribal attacks and occasionally a combined assault . |
| 6 | We shall see , in fact , that the case for French sources and thus a possible Anglo-Norman bridge is most persuasive and pertinent in respect of the fabliaux in English with what we shall be able to identify as the " earliest " features : Dame Sirith and Chaucer 's Shipman 's Tale . |
| 7 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 8 | Each abounds in imaginative little surprises — sudden lapses into folk themes or popular dances and even a mock ‘ Turkish ’ episode enliven their finales . |
| 9 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
| 10 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 11 | You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small |
| 12 | Martin Lester of Bristol has produced a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet , a Space Shuttle , countless sharks and even a flying Daedalus . |
| 13 | Debbie uses three ideas common to the science students : one , that science degrees are more useful in enabling students to gain jobs ; two , that a degree is a process of ‘ gaining knowledge ’ which can be applied ; three , that the knowledge gained in a degree such as history can be applied only in limited ways and therefore a limited number of jobs is open to the history graduate . |
| 14 | He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump , which he would if he were promoted . |
| 15 | In some LDCs people have no faith in financially weak banks and thus a great expansion of bank deposits is prevented . |
| 16 | Crusaders , enjoying their low profile these days but still a major threat for the title , are at home to Newry and will have forward John Cleary available again . |
| 17 | The Utes who once inhabited these regions handed down tales of gods as entities with a wry sense of humour , human faults and even a mean streak . |
| 18 | The Utes who once inhabited these regions handed down tales of gods as entities with a wry sense of humour , human faults and even a mean streak . |
| 19 | It not only has unique species , but unique families and even a unique order . |
| 20 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 21 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 22 | Most daysacks have a simple padded back , padded slings and possibly a small waist strap . |
| 23 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |
| 24 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 25 | Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world . |
| 26 | After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York . |
| 27 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 28 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |
| 29 | But advertisements continued to appear in a large number of local London papers and provincial papers and even a religious publication , The Rock . |
| 30 | A view of the east coast bays will encompass many miles and always a huge sky . |