Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 6 | Before detailing the two main components of LMS , this introductory chapter sets out the general framework of change . |
| 7 | DIRECT Banking rolled out the red carpet for two special guests . |
| 8 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 12 | The second , in 1552 , saw the publication of Hamilton 's Catechism , a vernacular work setting out the basic tenets of Catholic belief . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , what remains especially striking and distinctive is the English reluctance to take back the elderly within the home as dependents . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many will see this paper as a fundamental attack on the NHS , a means by which a free service slides down the slippery slope of privatisation . |
| 21 | The old Corporation bought out the two private gas companies in 1869 , and by 1877 vast strides in the world of Glasgow by gas-light resulted in the universal installation of Siemen 's regenerative lamps and Sugg 's argand lamps . |
| 22 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 23 | On 18 October , therefore , the British government turned down the new fare proposals from American operators , while the CAA rejected British Airways ' request . |
| 24 | The working groups will look at particular topics , consider the existing legislation and help prepare a discussion document for wider public consultation setting out the various options for reform . |
| 25 | He also stresses that the new female values encouraged marriage for love rather than for prudential considerations , and maintains that women 's increasing search for sexual fulfilment pushed up the general fertility rate of lower-class marriages in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | While the Daily Star held out the glittering prospect of ‘ dark , damp , rat-infested dungeons in a medieval castle where troublemakers will be left to rot . ’ |
| 27 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not a bad place , ’ he said , once they were in reception and the smoked glass shut out the small hut where they searched the hand-bags , and she 'd laughed and said ‘ All right ’ and they 'd signed in . |
| 30 | Brewery bosses say that every British couple bringing back the new full drink and tobacco allowance would save almost £1,000 in import duty . |