Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
| 2 | Despite the party leadership 's opposition to aspects of Mr Nemeth 's austerity measures , the budget is expected to be approved today , after parliament successfully watered down the controversial changes in housing policy which entailed steep rent rises and a sharp increase in mortgage payments . |
| 3 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 4 | THE JOCKEY CLUB yesterday meted out the stiff punishment of a 20-year ban from racing to Chris Willett , a point-to-point rider and trainer , who served a three-month jail sentence earlier this year for his part in a betting coup involving a ringer . |
| 5 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 6 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |
| 7 | Sales here rose by 18 per cent , and the Miss Selfridge subsidiary also put in a strong performance with a sales gain of 17.5 per cent on a store-for-store comparison . |
| 8 | The new law immediately sparked off a political crisis as hardline Slovak nationalists began demonstrations and a hunger strike in protest against a clause allowing the official use of minority languages in towns or villages where the minority nationality formed at least 20 per cent of the population ( a large ethnic Hungarian minority , concentrated in southern Slovakia , was increasingly the target of nationalist hatred ; there were also Polish , Ukrainian and Gypsy communities ) . |
| 9 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 10 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 11 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 12 | The disaster on the London-Belfast flight happened after one of the Boeing 's two engines began to break up and the crew mistakenly shut down the other one . |
| 13 | In 1992 the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a hate-crime ordinance in St Paul , Minnesota , that was invoked after a cross-burning . |
| 14 | Sudirman promptly handed over a vast cache to the city pemuda . |
| 15 | He had been in the Little Chef restaurant in Bramley , near Rotherham , south Yorkshire , on Wednesday night , when a man suddenly pulled out a double- barrelled shotgun . |
| 16 | When a police car arrived , one man hopefully pointed out a few spots of blood on the pavement , mentally drawing a chalk circle round them and marking off the area with official police tape . |
| 17 | The Korean government quickly set up a rival organization to the ITF , called the World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ) . |
| 18 | Josselin gradually built up a large farm in Earls Colne , starting with a land purchase in 1646 . |
| 19 | The National Materials Handling Centre accordingly set up a Working Party , chaired by Mr. A. C. Parnell of Fire Check Consultants with a brief to examine the following areas of the problem ; the whole being intended to act as a plain main 's guide but one which had the agreement of all interested parties . |
| 20 | He would have a lot more wired down the next day . |
| 21 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |
| 22 | In assessing the impact on homes , British Rail completely missed out an entire family whose home in Caledonian road would be destroyed . |
| 23 | The Yalta agreement of February 1945 had already enshrined the right of the Soviets to retain their forward positions in Eastern Europe and the Potsdam conference later that year further divided up the former Third Reich . |
| 24 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault-tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |
| 25 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems ( RAIS ) environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |
| 26 | Last year 's mission also notched up a significant horticultural success . |
| 27 | Changes in the electoral system recently brought in a new commission with six Hispanics , four blacks and three whites . |
| 28 | However , on Saturday he had one of those games when little went right for him and as a result the pack rarely got up a good head of steam . |
| 29 | Lugard also laid down an elaborate protocol for dealing with the emirs and chiefs , who were to be treated by British officers with the precise degree of courtesy — and no more — which their rank deserved . |
| 30 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |