Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ No , my heartless and sexually misguided ancestress . |
| 2 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 3 | I returned to my first and most potent objection . |
| 4 | That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life . |
| 5 | You are my oldest and most special friend . |
| 6 | Often during my varied and extremely active life , I have been overcome with acute nostalgia for Bristol and my University days — truly some of the happiest of my memories . |
| 7 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 8 | The glossy black and rosy white of the plumage , the helmeted head and elevated tail , like that of the common fowl , give a striking character , which their stately and somewhat sedate walk renders still more remarkable . |
| 9 | The neurological dominance of the large human cerebral cortex has ensured that basic instinct has come increasingly under its control and has thereby lost its specific and rigidly determined character . |
| 10 | At the same time the Welfare State , designed to provide a safety net for those incapable of fending for themselves , was being rapidly expanded , and the NHS can be seen as its greatest and most enduring feature . |
| 11 | The Stollinger family , who speak excellent English take great pride in their friendly and spotlessly clean pension . |
| 12 | Despite the débâcle over the march , the rally had been a success and the DHAC returned to the Guildhall in late August for its largest and most successful demonstration so far , in the council chamber . |
| 13 | I have no doubt myself that a man or woman earnestly seeking in grown-up life to be guided to wide and suggestive knowledge in its largest and most uplifted sphere will make the best of all the pupils in this age of clatter and buzz , of gape and gloat . |
| 14 | Edinburgh is Scotland 's capital , and , until overtaken by Glasgow in the middle of the eighteenth century , was its largest and most important city . |
| 15 | Ivan F Boesky , et al , the Commission began its largest and most notorious case to date . |
| 16 | It aims to provide 40,000 training weeks by next April under its innovative and highly successful Training in Employment scheme . |
| 17 | It fits into the following part of the story , where the author describes her rich and rather spoilt heroine 's exit from a high-class antique shop in London 's West End : [ 4 ] " Charming ! " |
| 18 | During February the United States-led allied forces continued their extensive and largely unopposed air campaign against Iraq and against Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait . |
| 19 | ( Robyn , a dressing-gown over her underclothes and slippers on her feet , descends the short dark staircase to the ground floor and goes into her narrow and extremely untidy kitchen . |
| 20 | Sophisticated versions may be found in a number of workshop items , particularly Kerman and Quoom , but perhaps its finest and most definitive expression is encountered in the more primitive rugs of the Bakhtiari tribe . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is from this base that the Report goes on to conclude that only the state , in its cultural and even spiritual manifestation , is capable of overcoming the forces making for national disunity . |
| 22 | Only one of the fifty-six lots , a seventeenth-century two-part walnut cabinet , was bought in at FFr750,000 ( £77,950 ; $135,600 ) , just under its high and somewhat optimistic estimate . |
| 23 | For the first time since Brian had known her , a look of pain seemed to cross her honest and usually cheerful face . |
| 24 | Neatly coinciding with the current outstanding exhibition of British watercolours at the Royal Academy , nearby Bond Street dealers Agnew 's are holding their annual and much respected watercolour exhibition , the one hundred and twentieth of its kind ( 8 March to 2 April ) . |
| 25 | Despite their consistent and eventually justified opposition to MacDonald , ILP disaffiliation from the Labour Party was regarded as an extreme measure to be adopted only if the Labour National Executive refused to make any concessions . |
| 26 | He stepped back and folded his arms , casually surveying her dishevelled and extremely grubby figure . |
| 27 | But the interest in the sale lay in its younger and more international image , partly due to the inclusion of forty lots from the estate of Swedish collector , Frederik Roos . |
| 28 | More rigorously geometric than her previous and distinctively organic work , the new sculptures appear to mark a change of direction and approach the work of Bruce Nauman or Robert Morris , but their content is consistent and in them Houshiary continues to explore the journey from the body or self to its spirit , as she works towards a major exhibition at Grenoble 's Magasin in 1993 or 1994 . |
| 29 | It 's hip hop at its birth , it 's DJ Kool Hero , ‘ Apache ’ by The Incredible Bongo Band , subway trains with Smurfs on the side , fat laces , quick cuts and the almost mythical impression of New York at a time when black music gave birth to what remains its hardest and most vital creation . |
| 30 | The Labour Government had cancelled their previous and more ambitious scheme for the tunnel and now the next Conservative Government was wondering if their current one was ambitious enough . |