Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 2 | This will be followed , in due course , by a further three-quarters of a mile of track , a run round loop and the construction of a platform at the River Avon , allowing passengers to enjoy the walk , boat trips , riverside pubs and a possible link up with a local country park . |
| 3 | Arthur Penn made a remarkable tall story out of a similar theme in Little Big Man , a sympathetic account of American-Indian life filmed 20 years before Dances With Wolves . |
| 4 | This emphasized the shift in Labour support out of the Distressed Areas . |
| 5 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 6 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |
| 7 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 8 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 9 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 10 | Ybreska vaulted over the low , crumbling wall surrounding the old churchyard on to the rough pitted track which led towards Tbilisi . |
| 11 | SAVE 's proposal was to transfer the ‘ air rights ’ of the old building on to the lorry-park site . |
| 12 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 13 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |
| 14 | ‘ It just sounded really funny coming out of an ambient track . |
| 15 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 16 | Well , we certainly ought to try , and if we ca n't then there 'll be a very good case for generous compensation out of the secret funds . ’ |
| 17 | Despite a lingering tendency to see the Chinese cult of the dead as a simple and direct projection on to the mystical plane of the strict code of filial piety controlling the behaviour of sons towards their fathers , recent studies by Sinological anthropologists are increasingly adopting a wider cosmological perspective which places the dead , where they naturally belong , among the other spirits and forces of traditional Chinese religion . |
| 18 | He stared across the table at me , rolling the empty tumbler around on the wooden table-top . |
| 19 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 20 | He had let a light engine out of the down loop ready to go to Bolton and had refused the bell code for a fast down freight from Bradley Fold station box . |
| 21 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 22 | Could I also say that erm again going back to Strathclyde that there is a , a social , there is a subsidy for those services erm where there is a social need up to a certain point and that is governed by the finance available , but its not as though , this is just the commercial network , in fact , er I think its erm something in the order of ninety two per cent of services in Strathclyde are commercially operated and it is Strathclyde region that fills the gaps . |
| 23 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 24 | Its proposals are workable and provide a framework for services which can be applied at all levels from the government at the top right down to the professional worker in direct contact with the recipient of services . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , Ross … ’ she sighed helplessly as he lowered her damp body on to the cool sheets . |
| 26 | Miss Fergusson , on the other hand , had merely been put into a temper : first by the attempt to thrust some foolish meaning on to the scriptural verse ; and secondly by the priest 's brazen commercial behaviour . |
| 27 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 28 | According to the PLO 's sources , the Toshiba radio-cassette bomb used to destroy Flight 103 had been built by Khaisar Haddad , also known as Abu Elias , a blond , blue-eyed Lebanese Christian member of the PFLP — GC , who passed the completed device on to an Iranian contact in Beirut . |
| 29 | Having forced the Old King on to the defensive , Philip was able , in subsequent negotiations , to demand that Richard stop his harassment of Toulouse . |
| 30 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |