Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who wished to build a villa in Benghazi , but was frustrated by his expectation that , if he did , he would have no protection strong enough to prevent immediate expropriation , explained the collapse of his hopes for a more elegant and civilized life . |
| 2 | He has a budget generous enough to allow creative cooking with the likes of caviar , fresh asparagus and smoked salmon at his contract , and also works within an environment that he finds friendly and relatively stress-free . |
| 3 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 4 | They made a water gate in the south wall and built a boathouse large enough to accommodate three barges , thereby gaining rent paid by two other users . |
| 5 | The data shown in Figure 4 further demonstrate that replacement of the inner cytosine residue of the Dcm target sequence by 5-fluorocytosine does not interfere with protein binding . |
| 6 | Chapter 4 briefly reviewed various management techniques that have been tried and then abandoned by government . |
| 7 | Ordinary aquarium gravel will be suitable for the substrate ; if you fit a gravel tidy then allow some scope for digging , ie do n't put it too near the surface of the gravel , as pits will be required as nurseries for the fry . |
| 8 | Accounting software house Sage Plc has finally launched the Macintosh version of its mid-range Sterling +2 package software , along with a revamped version of its MainLan peer-to-peer networking system and enhanced version of its Sovereign high end accounting system : the announcements were accompanied by the news that Sage Sterling +2 has now been included in the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ; the Bookkeeper version of Sterling +2 for the Mac , available now , is £150 , the Accountant version is £350 ; MainLan 4.0 for MS-DOS and for Windows said to be faster and takes up 20% less memory than its predecessor is either £400 for the 16-bit starter kit boards or £200 with 8-bit boards ; the ‘ super enhanced ’ Sovereign 4.7 now has full EuroVAT reporting and improved profit and loss , stock take and help facilities and costs £350 for single users or £600 for multiple users . |
| 9 | Figure 4.7 also indicates typical altitude ranges of the clouds and hazes . |
| 10 | A swift turn of the wrist , a resulting click as the receptacle was locked , a pull on the lever and off it went to the central cash desk that usually had two cashiers . |
| 11 | It may also be noted that the Local Government Act 1986 specifically prohibits any council from spending money for party political purposes . |
| 12 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 13 | The Education Act 1962 currently limits mandatory grant support to full-time first degree and comparable courses . |
| 14 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 largely prevent these abuses , but it is true that , in so far as those Acts allow them to , finance companies still insist on the terms being as beneficial to themselves as possible . |
| 15 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 specifically excluded all women from the local borough franchise , but single women continued to enjoy the vote and even the right to be elected in many parishes and important local bodies , such as the Poor Law Guardians , associated with them ( Hollis 1987 ) . |
| 16 | The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 also imposes broad standards of reasonableness . |
| 17 | In full breeding plumage Common normally has dark tip to bill , but Arctic normally does not ; in winter both have blackish bills . |
| 18 | The Children Act 1989 also requires greater cooperation between departments where the needs of children with disabilities are concerned . |
| 19 | Midlands Electricity and South Western also reported healthy figures but the shares retreated : Midland fell 2p to 451p ; South Western slipped the same to 436p . |
| 20 | The Princess Royal already has two children , Peter , 15 , and Zara , 12 , from her marriage to Captain Mark Phillips , whom she divorced last year . |
| 21 | By July 1989 it was estimated that the country possessed foreign exchange sufficient only to cover three weeks ' worth of imports . |
| 22 | Pressure group Transport 2000 recently claimed 100 miles of NorthEast track is already at risk . |
| 23 | The initial formulation of Newton 's programme also implied the desirability of constructing apparatus sensitive enough to detect gravitational attraction on a laboratory scale ( Cavendish 's experiment ) . |
| 24 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 25 | The results listed in Appendix 5 clearly show that lack of word boundary information together with acoustic-phonetic uncertainty result in a huge increase in the possible word parses of an utterance . |
| 26 | The Attorney General immediately requested that Pedro Collor hand over his videotaped evidence . |
| 27 | The ‘ kick ’ drum , the ‘ ride ’ cymbal and the ‘ high-hat ’ implied in Psalm 150 usually need some dampening or restraining when used in church . |
| 28 | X/Open Co Ltd currently derives some 20% of its revenues from royalties : it wants that figure to rise to 100% within five years , though that does n't mean the group wo n't have any paying shareholders by that time , because some organisations will always want to pay upfront for a participation and package of services , it believes . |
| 29 | Among Easton 's section police ‘ common sense ’ subsumes all competences , being an indexical category flexible enough to include different sorts of skills , all of which are described as constituting common sense . |
| 30 | COLIN STOKES , the SCRIMLEY ARSENAL goalkeeper once owned a dog that only had three legs ! |