Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 2 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 3 | Similar findings were observed with prostacyclin either applied locally or given systemically in the coronary artery of dog ( Aiken et al , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Stress it is which poisons the innocent spangles of daisies , dissonantly warps the song of the idiot birds or leers gibberingly over the useless privet . |
| 5 | There is a masterpiece in most churches , or placed casually in a small chapel in a field . |
| 6 | Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line . |
| 7 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
| 8 | Hastening importantly past are certain to be scores of the varnished wooden launches that are the cabs of Venice , their occupants talking hard inside if they are Venetians , or reclining ecstatically in the open sterns if visitors . |
| 9 | As well as Dobags , Anatolia produces a wide range of village-standard items , which may be either traditional in appearance or designed specifically for the Western market , and some notable workshop items , particularly from hereke and , to a lesser degree , Kayseria . |
| 10 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 11 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |
| 12 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |
| 13 | The 12 points may be identified and copied to an adjoining layer ( to aid clarity ) or operated directly in the original view . |
| 14 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 15 | or stand together in a rising mist |
| 16 | Credit and debt repayments for housing , fuel , furniture and children 's clothes tend to have first call on the income , being deducted from benefit at source or paid early in the weekly budgeting cycle . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't think or work properly on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 18 | At night we gather in the bar before hitting the nightspots of Lloret 's West End , or getting together with the other hotels for a party or disco night . |
| 19 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 20 | Every month almost two thirds of the British population participate in some kind of sales promotion , either by trading in a money-off coupon , entering a competition or sending away for a free gift . |
| 21 | Riders have to learn to cope with the contrasts of the Alpine stages , dropping like a stone or plodding upwards like an old soldier . |
| 22 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 23 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 24 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |
| 25 | It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house . |
| 26 | In precisely the same way , when we use the word property it will mean an element of this domain used by speakers in constructing their acts of linguistic communication , and not a property as perceived or conceived extralinguistically in a real or imaginary world , unless we specifically state that the latter is intended . |
| 27 | Biddy arrived on her Honda every evening there was a lesson whether it was snowing , raining stair-rods or shining frostily under a full moon . |
| 28 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 29 | One by one , true believers have either died off or slipped away into the post-Modern or revivalist camp under one pretext or another . |
| 30 | If you want , take to the water with a sunny trip by boat to view the coastline in a more leisurely fashion , or go across to the romantic island of Elba . |