Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 2 | In contrast to Lawrence 's simpler and more homely vocabulary , James seems to prefer rather more formal Latinate terms : procrastinated , reflected , remuneration , observation , confession , etc . |
| 3 | The door swung open and Canon Wheeler 's tall and immaculately tailored presence filled the space . |
| 4 | Ostensibly showing ‘ the fatal end of an ungoverned passion — virtuous in its object , but vicious in its excess ’ , the novel 's conflicting and more convincing emphasis is on the heroine 's defiance towards the ‘ moats and walls [ which ] are feeble barriers to a determined will ’ . |
| 5 | William Cobbett , writing in 1830 , described the Hereford as the country 's finest and most beautiful breed . |
| 6 | Complete and unbroken , the wild corpse kept its tiny crouch on her plate while Mrs Geary 's finest and most secret sauce was spooned round it . |
| 7 | London 's largest and most comprehensive bathroom and kitchen store . |
| 8 | London 's largest and most comprehensive bathroom and kitchen store . |
| 9 | Also described as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Thermal Oxide reprocessing Plant was completed to a deadline set six years ago . |
| 10 | Hailed as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Sellafield plant has been built to a deadline set six years ago . |
| 11 | THORP , which has been hailed as the ‘ envy of the nuclear world ’ by International Group Director is one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects . |
| 12 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
| 13 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
| 14 | But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic . |
| 15 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 16 | Through its Cruzcampo subsidiary based in Seville , GBW is also Spain 's largest and most profitable brewer . |
| 17 | It is now firmly established as the UK 's largest and most profitable food retailer and when I spoke to multi-millionaire chairman David Sainsbury yesterday he confirmed that he ‘ is on the brink of making a full scale onslaught into Scotland ’ . |
| 18 | Market-leading local insurers , known for their commitment to SWISS LIFE 's high standards , link up to form the world 's largest and most efficient insurance Network . |
| 19 | Situated just 10 minutes form the centre of Lanzarote 's largest and most popular resort , Puerto del Carmen , the Sunwing Club Hotel is in a beautiful position , right opposite the lovely beach of Matagorda . |
| 20 | The International Wine Challenge has grown since its inception in 1984 to become the world 's largest and most respected wine competition . |
| 21 | Intelligence information is gathered by the USSR at the Lourdes installation near Havana , Moscow 's largest and most valuable base of this kind outside the USSR . |
| 22 | Val Kilmer as Spooky Jim trips from slim butterfly to fat-bastard-with-a-beard-dead-in-the-bath through Ole Stoney 's unashamed and thoroughly blasted corpsebumlickery . |
| 23 | Most prospective rural housebuilders were prepared to employ cesspits instead of mains drainage and to pay to be connected to the county 's ageing but still serviceable water supply system , whilst being content to build their houses alongside existing roads , dismissing any arguments about the aesthetics of ribbon development . |
| 24 | Lasting 13 days and costing thousands of pounds , the ‘ devil dog ’ trial , which ended in Antrim yesterday , was Ulster 's longest and most expensive court case involving dogs . |
| 25 | Their attempt to stop Ireland 's most popular ‘ blood sport ’ follows the province 's longest and most expensive courtroom battle involving dogs . |
| 26 | Hoccleve 's longest and most popular work , judging by the number of surviving manuscripts , is the Regiment of Princes , written 1411–12 . |
| 27 | Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water , I had put Mrs Joe 's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S youngest and most unusual building society , the Ecology , is hoping to raise £250,000 from savers prepared to ‘ invest in the alternative ’ , and take out the society 's fixed one-year conservation bonds . |
| 29 | Then there are problems of translation ; A distant relative 's long-distant and fairly Meaningless tribute , ‘ We sha n't forget old Vanya ’ , Gets translated into funeralese as ‘ We shall never forget you ’ , which in turn Gets translated by a deaf florist into ‘ We shall love you forever ’ . |
| 30 | Frazer 's evocative and often imaginative description of Nemi 's grove under ‘ the dreamy blue of Italian skies ’ ensures that Eliot 's poem takes place in ‘ that Italian air ’ . |