Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat demurely on the edge of one of the room 's more nondescript-looking chairs , knowing that this Josie , whoever she might be , would be her key to success or failure over the next few hours and maybe even the coming days . |
| 2 | These give the poetic texts and occasionally also the music . |
| 3 | Over 50 per cent of the little ringed plovers in the UK nest on gravel pits , as do a third of great crested grebes and just under a third of the tufted duck population . |
| 4 | Externally the building ( a Station Master 's two storey house and single storey station building attached ) still had some original features : bargeboards , some finials and also quite a bit of original brown and cream BR(W) paintwork , particularly on the platform side of the house , but most of the wood under the paint had rotted . |
| 5 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 6 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 7 | According to this image , somewhere between ten and thirty men came to arrest Jesus — a Jewish functionary or two , some representatives of the High Priest ( one of whom has his ear injured by Simon Peter 's sword ) , presumably a contingent of the Temple guard , perhaps one or more Roman officials and even perhaps a small unit of Pilate 's soldiery . |
| 8 | On its debit side there is sometimes observable a certain strange ordering of priorities in moral codes and very often the systematic and conscious neglect of many aspects of African culture , particularly that great cultural legacy , music and the dance . |
| 9 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 10 | And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me . |
| 11 | Very often your teacher may ask you to come twice a week for two or three weeks and then once a week for a further period which will vary from pupil to pupil . |
| 12 | Personally I would like to see a gradient profile included in later editions and perhaps also an index , though possibly these opinions reflect my own prejudices . |
| 13 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
| 14 | During excitation , samples are heated and begin to outgas , producing more ions and concomitantly increasingly the electron beam current , which if unchecked will reach a preset level within the power unit and cause the high tension to be switched off to protect the gun . |
| 15 | The Sackvilles were considerable landowners and so quite an inheritance was at stake — enough at any rate to turn Richard into the classic professional litigant before both lay and ecclesiastical courts . |
| 16 | The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm . |
| 17 | And when you get to er to the landing you turn it round through forty five degrees and then down a little bit further and eventually you tip it over to go down the stairs . |
| 18 | Until recently Chandler have busied themselves producing guitar parts and accessories — everything from high-quality necks and exotic wood bodies to various pickups and just about every guitar-orientated nut and bolt you can think of . |
| 19 | Then he whistled several times and very soon a blackbird appeared on the ground in front of him . |
| 20 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 21 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 22 | Škvoreck ý's; The Bass Saxophone describes the particularly intense form this has taken under totalitarian regimes — both Fascist and Stalinist — when ‘ the ideological guns and sometimes even the police guns of all dictatorships are aimed at the men with the horns ’ . |
| 23 | This enigmatic man — one reluctant to disclose his plans even to his closest associates and so often the military miscalculator — in this instance judged the French national character correctly : if the Germans attacked Verdun , the French would resist . |
| 24 | A 3 piece dance band , some gentle surprises and maybe even a potted palm or two , spill out of a van and into church halls and community venues all over town . |
| 25 | It may just make one of the down-market dailies and thus please the marketing director , but it is probably not going to sell very much of the product . |
| 26 | On the M twenty five it 's still very busy in both directions and indeed especially the M four and M forty interchanges with the M twenty five are very busy at the moment . |