Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 2 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 3 | The significance of economic support Drawing together the different strands of this discussion of economic support , we can ask : Who are the main beneficiaries within a family ? |
| 4 | The first issue of European Update explained how the European Community is encouraging the free movement of labour through recognition of qualifications . |
| 5 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 6 | As early as July 1728 Wade was able to report : ‘ I am now with all possible diligence carrying on the new road for wheel-carriages between Dunkeld and Inverness , of about 80 English measured miles [ 128 km ] ’ , but it was 1731 which saw the creation of his masterpiece , the road from Dalwhinnie to Fort Augustus , in the middle of the Great Glen . |
| 7 | It seems that it was a hasty decision to take away the armoured car , which had become inseparable from the city 's history . |
| 8 | Instonians have former international and vice-captain Keith Crossan back in the side after a successful visit to Donegal 's Sheephaven Bay where the local junior club laid out the red carpet in spectacular fashion for an international select side . |
| 9 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 10 | Before detailing the two main components of LMS , this introductory chapter sets out the general framework of change . |
| 11 | DIRECT Banking rolled out the red carpet for two special guests . |
| 12 | The fact that the early DUP was Free Presbyterian explains why the senior leadership still is . |
| 13 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 14 | What will the Minister say to people who will receive the new allowance from April when they learn that last Friday a Conservative Back Bencher talked out the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill ? |
| 15 | The oddly named My Father 's Vertigo , a near narrative piece bringing out the best in LCDT , set the programme on its right tracks and proved that dance can contain wit . |
| 16 | Reciprocal altruism evolves where the net benefits received by individuals that show co-operative reciprocity exceeds that of non-altruists . |
| 17 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 18 | Endotoxin from different organisms although it may be of of different potency has essentially the same biological effects . |
| 19 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 20 | Do n't forget to let your old auntie know how the other things are progressing , but I 'm sure everything will work out just fine . ’ |
| 21 | The second , in 1552 , saw the publication of Hamilton 's Catechism , a vernacular work setting out the basic tenets of Catholic belief . |
| 22 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 23 | Kapil had a frustrating day yesterday as a light drizzle washed out the fourth day 's play in India 's first Test against South Africa in Durban . |
| 24 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 25 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , what remains especially striking and distinctive is the English reluctance to take back the elderly within the home as dependents . |
| 27 | PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand of France threw his weight yesterday behind a Soviet proposal to bring forward to next year a 35-nation conference to hammer out the future shape of Europe . |
| 28 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 29 | It is basic AIB practice that the investigating team carrying out the original field investigation follows the work right through all the stages of testing and researches to the ultimate production of the report , thus ensuring complete continuity throughout . |
| 30 | Can my right hon. Friend explain why the hon. Gentleman 's party suggests that we should increase the differences between those of us who live north and south of the border in the United Kingdom ? |