Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Sludge Disposal Vessel ‘ Gardyloo ’ built to operate from the new facility was in fact completed in August 1876 and immediately chartered for work on the Clyde while awaiting completion of the Seafield Works .
2 The national dailies loved this and immediately jumped on Morrissey 's back in a typical display of hounding .
3 Often gregarious and habitually hunts over water .
4 Notable exceptions are arctic oxbow and other remnant lakes formed on river plains , which may be muddy and well endowed with minerals .
5 All the bedrooms ( price A ) are light and comfortably furnished with colour TV , mini-bar , hair dryer , air-conditioning , balcony and sea view .
6 The small operation at " Hartriggs " ( see " Haggrieg 's Mine at Hawk Rigg " page 91 in the Field Guide ) , was providing a " rich liver coloured ore " ( cuprite ? ) , whilst at Muckle Gill , above the top waterfall in Tilberthwaite Gill , the veins , even then , " as the shafts get deeper , become less rich … getting more coarse and more mineralised with sulphur . "
7 The reverse punch is also the strongest and hardest punch in karate .
8 Tyrer said : ‘ I played rugby league until I was 17 years old and even played for Wigan Under-11s at Wembley , where I kicked six goals .
9 Given the status patterns discerned one might expect that even if technology were to achieve high status and acceptance the version which would ‘ count as education ’ would be academic and theoretical and therefore stand in contradiction to more practical objectives .
10 The BCS does lots of other good things , like sitting on 31 standards committees , working with 15 European computer societies to harmonise professional qualifications for the single market , accrediting computer science courses to make them less theoretical and more oriented towards projects , maintaining a register of expert witnesses , setting up ad hoc specialist groups very quickly on new areas like expert systems , natural language translation and parallel processing , and helping the disabled .
11 In the diagrams the applied forces are linear and uniformly distributed for simplicity 's sake ; however this need not be the case .
12 The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere .
13 Love children , he had read , were more beautiful , more charming and more favoured by destiny than those born in wedlock .
14 Or the group may start at Phase 2 and then go to Phase 5 .
15 Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca .
16 For all your sound recording , take care to ensure that your microphone leads and audio connections are electrically sound and properly screened from hum pick-up , so that the signal arrives at the camcorder in the best possible condition .
17 It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland .
18 We see this in the music of the New Dithyramb ( from c. 470–460 ) , a degenerate form of the dithyramb proper and rightly opposed by Aristophanes .
19 At nineteen he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and later admitted to Oxford 's Littlemoor Hospital .
20 But if it is experienced as hostile , it may provoke the carer into actions which are atypical and frequently followed by remorse and guilt .
21 AIDS is an issue which has enabled people to talk to one another and also think about issues which they might otherwise not have thought about — specifically about death at an early age .
22 The up-stream side becomes steep and heavily plastered with mud to make it water-tight .
23 Byelaws are generally made to ensure proper precautions are taken to prevent or reduce the odour , for example , by insisting that a fish frying stove should be accessible and easily removed for cleaning , and has a satisfactory fume extraction system .
24 All the time , she had been half listening and even replying to Gazzer as he chatted on about Simon , the police , and Bella .
25 Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately .
26 This was the question of the hour for much of January 1991 and thoroughly documented by Platt 's .
27 The party 's considered response to these and other discussions was a draft Programme , ‘ Socialism , Democracy , Progress ’ , which was approved by a Central Committee plenum in July 1991 and subsequently published for discussion .
28 Details of the ‘ community charge reduction scheme ’ were produced in January 1991 and then modified in March 1991 .
29 To stop the board from turning too much and possibly heading into wind , the turn can be stopped by swiftly moving forwards on the board
30 Things are changing and work in public affairs will probably become as accepted and widely used in Britain as it is in the United States .
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