Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 2 | This skirts the base of the pinnacled north ridge and reaches a ridge beyond , where the final stage of the ascent , of daunting aspect , requires a very steep scramble up a narrowing spire to its airy top . |
| 3 | Some take up a static life — the barnacles ; others swim in vast shoals — the krill which forms the food of whales . |
| 4 | Figures 1 and 2 represent graphically the overall level of participation in meaningful activity of everyone included in the study at each of the seven datapoints . |
| 5 | Whereas Christmas is viewed as a more sedate family occasion , Hogmanay is quite the opposite , and young and old see out the old year in style and ring in the new at the top of their voice . |
| 6 | tutorial programme , we talked last , last term er and I said that I 'd like to as soon as possible put up a complete programme of titles , it would be nice if we could have a little er what am I supposed to call them ? |
| 7 | I want that put on a net list . |
| 8 | As we have already seen , these make up a sizeable number of temporary workers and in the years since 1983 there has been a major expansion of special employment measures in Britain . |
| 9 | These make up the vast majority of expenditure . |
| 10 | MCM provide quite a good assembly instruction leaflet with photographs depicting the 48 stages of the assembly procedure . |
| 11 | These provide neither an exhaustive listing nor even a wide range of examples , but clearly identify the differences that mark out the South in the contemporary United States . |
| 12 | me , I , I got , I took me old three put out the other day and so they said got your |
| 13 | Statistics can be tedious , but these demonstrate dramatically the great power and splendour of Argentine railways . |
| 14 | Yet a mere glance at the list will reveal the predominance of the I form ( 960 times in my count , taking all first-person forms : I/me/my/myself/mine ) and the You or Thou form ( 890 times , including thou/thee/thy/thine/thyself ; you/ye/your/yours/yourself ) , over the third-person forms , where these imply either a third-person account of the beloved ( He in Sonnets 1–126 : 51 times ; She in Sonnets 127–52 : 31 times ) or a reference to some third party with whom the poet or his beloved is having a relationship ( She in Sonnets 1–126 : 11 instances ; He in Sonnets 127–52 : 22 instances ; total 33 ) . |
| 15 | But the ultimate source of the difficulty is the same : some objects have intrinsic orientations , with fronts , sides , etc. , and these allow both the deictic selection of some oriented plane and the non-deictic reference to some such oriented plane . |
| 16 | Ready-finished doors are now among those on offer and these require just an occasional wipe over to keep them looking immaculate . |
| 17 | Both of these require only a qualified majority of the Council . |
| 18 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 19 | The young student who died in Edinburgh ; James Bulger ; the girl raped in Gwent — all bring out a natural sympathy as well as a sense of our own fragility and powerlessness . |
| 20 | Docks , farms , animals , people , towns and villages all make up a complete railway system . |
| 21 | We all owe Solly a deep debt of gratitude for his services to the cause of jazz for so many years . |
| 22 | The Imperial Palace , former residence of the Hapsburgs , St. Stephen 's Cathedral , the Vienna State Opera House , National Theatre and Parliament building all lie along the impressive Ringstrasse boulevard . |
| 23 | He is particularly interested in the way that words and sentences change their meaning according to the context in which they are said and heard , and in the ways in which we all fill in the unspoken background of what is said to us . |
| 24 | The latter constitute both a small dictionary of commercial abbreviations and a set of dispositive rules . |
| 25 | The last great pull up the final top was agony . |
| 26 | 4 Work out a practical agreement/compromise . |
| 27 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 28 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 29 | United put up a brave fight and a little more luck in the second half might have brought them a goal . |
| 30 | It is advisable to give reasons for the decision , especially if rejecting the DC , so that those concerned know why the proposed change has been blocked . |