Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
| 2 | A junior spin doctor wandered down the aisle of bus and aeroplane using the language which presumably they drum into them at medical school : ‘ I will certainly convey your request to the Prime Minister for a comment on these polls , but I think you will find him taking the view that after April 9 you will all be writing about him winning the only poll that matters . ’ |
| 3 | A TEENAGE computer hacker knocked out a vital cancer treatment database when he keyed into a computer at a world famous centre for medical research , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 5 | British car manufacturers built up an unenviable reputation over the late 1940s and in the 1950s in both respects [ Bhaskar , 1979 ; Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 6 | Originally an old coaching inn set round an ancient bowling green , now carefully developed to provide up-to-date comforts in the centre of this prosperous town to the South of the City . |
| 7 | Last year the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and the Association of Social Research Organisations set up the Social Science Forum ( SSF ) to campaign on issues that were affecting social scientists . |
| 8 | The negotiations for the purchase of the aircraft culminated in the offices of the London lawyers , Freshfields , with representatives of five companies and some six different law firms clustered around a table in the conference room . |
| 9 | More than 1.5 million calls have swamped a free telephone bank set up a month ago by his employees to sign up volunteers . |
| 10 | At about the same time , Shaughnessy also commissioned a former German intelligence agent to carry out an investigation for him in Europe . |
| 11 | Primarily , it will be for the British Transport police to carry out the tests . |
| 12 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 13 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 14 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 15 | THRILLED SKINNY : ‘ Let There Be Shelving EP ’ ( Hunchback ) top DIY enthusiasts knock up a tasty four track EP with a couple of bits of string and some sticky-back plastic . |
| 16 | Caroline 's comment : Commercial baby foods make up a substantial part of the average baby 's diet and they are very convenient . |
| 17 | One German dog breeder worked out a way to have his cake and eat it . |
| 18 | I decided that I should ask a friend for a loan of his electronic pH meter to find out the exact difference between the two tanks . |
| 19 | Today 's teenagers go to nightclubs where mega-watt public address systems pump out the latest chart-toppers to a dark and sweaty throng . |
| 20 | You will need to attach three Daily Mirror tokens to take up the special offer . |
| 21 | ABOVE : Old man Roberts checks out the family album . |
| 22 | With a shaking hand Isabel picked up the goblet . |
| 23 | When we got to Nelly 's the fire was low , but while she was collecting newspapers I filled the kettle and using the old leather bellows stoked up the heat . |
| 24 | At the end of 1944 the goal posts once again replaced bean poles and ‘ The Tip ’ staged its own international fixture when a combined German and Italian team from the nearby POW camp took on the ‘ Whads ’ , who for this match played under the name of England . |
| 25 | The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study . |
| 26 | And then the multi-lingual Entertainment Team put on a great show . |
| 27 | French film makers broke up the Cannes festival in solidarity . |
| 28 | Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks . |
| 29 | Public finance theory sets out the possibilities more formally . |
| 30 | The hypnotic induction procedure sets up the circumstances that encourage the subject to enter this ‘ trance ’ state . |