Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reimbursement of additional hotel and travelling expenses necessarily incurred up to a maximum of £300 to reach the booked destination in the event of the Insured Person arriving at the U.K. departure point too late to commence the booked holiday as a result of the failure of public transport services or due to an accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 2 | Additional accommodation and travel expenses necessarily incurred following late arrival at the UK departure point due to the failure of Public Transport services ( or due to an accident or breakdown involving the motor vehicle in which the insured is travelling ) . |
| 3 | Join now as an individual , £6.75 per annum , or free with a Climber and Hillwalker subscription or join your local walking/climbing club ( addresses available from the national officer ) . |
| 4 | It could be behaviour that is different or unusual in a way that is disapproved of , such as stealing or children-battering . |
| 5 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 6 | Needle-knife papillotomy is probably a safer option than pre-cutting with a sphincterotome where the wire emerges from the end , as the direction of the cut is easier to control with the needle-knife and there is less danger of damage to the pancreatic duct . |
| 7 | George was generous and conciliatory to an extent that Coleridge can hardly have expected . |
| 8 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 9 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 10 | All the male terms in the following list are relatively neutral and descriptive of a job or a position — master/mistress , host/hostess , fisherman/fishwife , prince/princess , bachelor/spinster . |
| 11 | Now spend some time , if possible with a dictionary or a thesaurus , making out a chart for yourself-exploring some of the feelings you experience . |
| 12 | Gorbachev 's speech on his election as party leader laid proper emphasis on domestic priorities , but also called for better relations with the ‘ great socialist community ’ , particularly China , and for the continuation of ‘ peaceful , mutually advantageous cooperation ’ with the capitalist world , leading if possible to an agreement that would provide for the complete elimination of nuclear arms and with them the threat of nuclear war . |
| 13 | Next I began to worship actors like gods and I 'd go and see the same performance again and again , transported , until I learned that the actor , the one I had in mind , was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go . |
| 14 | It was late , but Mrs Mallory was still ironing , the line of her mouth grim and purposeful in a face that was unusually tired and unhappy . |
| 15 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 16 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 17 | He had taken far more interest in their efforts than his father had thought was right and proper for a boy and when Leonie , his eldest sister , had been apprenticed to a dressmaker his fascination had grown . |
| 18 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 19 | His voices , insights , personae and images feel truthful and contemporary in a way that most theatre does not . |
| 20 | Their movements are graceful and controlled , their minds are quick and clever with an intensity and depth of insight which makes them seem fey and strange to other races . |
| 21 | However , it is now known that the Moon is devoid of seas , and devoid of an atmosphere as well . |
| 22 | Water the plant well and keep warm and shaded for a day or two while it settles down . |
| 23 | Scared of the dark and freezing in a T-shirt and track suit bottoms , Matthew shouted himself hoarse until he was discovered . |
| 24 | What should be remembered is that there exist many things which are both good in themselves and good as an instrument or a means to something else . |
| 25 | In inventing a powerfully compelling fictional world in which women learn to recognize their own power , the book is politically committed , subversive and dynamic in a way that Spielberg did not begin to recognize . |
| 26 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied another , slim and small as a child but with a face centuries old . |
| 27 | Her stare was cold and unreadable for a moment before she broke into a smile . |
| 28 | We have also to devise a means of editing material which Mr Benn would wish to be withheld for a certain period on grounds of personal sensitivity , in such a way that it can be reinserted in the correct place ( if necessary on a disc or tape ) when the time comes . |
| 29 | She lay there , sleek and curved as a fish or a gull , so close that he could hear the rise and fall of her breath faintly echoing the suspiration of the sea . |
| 30 | The Cranberries in general , and Dolores in particular , bring new meaning to words like innocence and naivete and are honest and open and unaffected to a degree that is positively thrilling . |