Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She caught a glimpse of the ruffled bed beyond , noted his tousled hair and hastily tied robe , covering very little of his tanned torso , and wished quite desperately that they did n't hate each other . |
| 2 | Ahead a kiosk , fashioned in the manner of a tartan fairground booth , offered up the tantalizing fragrances of fried bacon and freshly brewed coffee . |
| 3 | This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair . |
| 4 | With adequate resourcing and well designed support systems , relocation can enhance lives . |
| 5 | Fumaroli 's book is among the first to break the consensus , to ask whether all this expenditure has revived French cultural vitality or merely made culture into a stylish prisoner of the French state . |
| 6 | John Ward too has been a faithful helper and specially valued companion . |
| 7 | Sprinkle over the remaining olive oil and freshly ground pepper . |
| 8 | My only protection was a battered trilby and an old raincoat that soon admitted defeat . |
| 9 | Changes are to include a nine-member national executive , a regional council and clearly defined leadership structure , which will make it more akin to mainstream political parties . |
| 10 | The UX-120 , the latest fax from Sharp Electronics ( UK ) Ltd , is a state-of-the-art combined telephone and fully featured fax , with an ‘ intelligent fax switch ’ . |
| 11 | The man was strikingly good-looking , he thought , with the sharp features of a hunting peregrine , vivid cherry-brown eyes , a hooked nose and neatly clipped moustache and beard . |
| 12 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 13 | There are just seven simple bedrooms , a book-lined lounge and cleverly designed bar for relaxing in , and lovely little breakfast loft . |
| 14 | They tended to move in the same circles and share many of the same values as the liberal nobility and progressively minded public opinion articulated by journalists , writers , professors , and students . |
| 15 | From the famous Elizabethan Montacute House to Brympton D'Evercy there is a wealth of National Trust and privately owned country houses and gardens open to the public . |
| 16 | It is even harder to imagine his reaction , in light of his long imprisonment , to the authoritative comment of The Times on the Bedford Bunyan Festival : ‘ No one cares to remember whether the author of the most fascinating allegory that ever struck despair into the souls of imitators was a Dissenter . ’ |
| 17 | Substitution of new materials for existing ones , increased recycling or simply reduced demand for materials due to technical innovations could all make a nonsense of predictions that the world may run short of key metals . |
| 18 | They provide a new dimension to this debate because they derive from the experience of a different socio-economic group and markedly changed labour market conditions to most of the previous research on this issue . |
| 19 | As both those particular models of socialism have lost credibility , a debate has opened on the possibility of an alternative definition of the socialist goal — one that occupies a space somewhere between regulated capitalism and centrally planned state socialism , and one that finds a new balance of the strengths and weaknesses of planning and the market . |
| 20 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |
| 21 | French store-owners have anticipated the influx of custom by advertising in UK newspapers to promote their beer and wine buy-in-bulk outlets , 24-hours-a-day opening and easily understood English staff . |
| 22 | Many smaller and singlehanded practices in London provide good quality and highly valued care . |
| 23 | The disbursement of an IMF standby arrangement , agreed in principle in July [ see p. 37607 ] was dependent on achieving increased growth and sharply reduced inflation . |
| 24 | The cruciform plan was adopted , a high vaulted nave and choir , with one or more flanking aisles , an eastern chevet and richly ornamented west façade . |
| 25 | While Psion Plc was formerly just a holding company that also conducted research and development , it now undertakes procurement , manufacturing and supply for both trading companies and distributors worldwide . |
| 26 | Then I did a day 's course in bouncing choreography but never found time to create a routine . |
| 27 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |
| 28 | Many of the confusions in the anthropological literature arise from the failure to make an adequate distinction between biological relationship and socially recognized relationship . |
| 29 | The use of second line drugs in the management of rheumatoid arthritis was also identified as an independent variable that significantly influenced leukotriene concentrations . |
| 30 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |