Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made .
2 All MBDC meetings are sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings .
3 All MBDC meetings were sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings .
4 When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time .
5 If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome .
6 Pilade was asleep , leaving her arms free for the precious embrace she longed for .
7 Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ?
8 It was something of a shock to him to realize how fond of the little boy he had become .
9 Indeed , the exact opposite was in his mind , but he was afraid of the further rejection she would face in any hamlet or village for miles around .
10 There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship .
11 She knew he had changed , that he was a man of thirty-two now , a successful man , a powerful man — probably quite different from the young man she had known .
12 How is homoeopathy different from the orthodox medicine I can get from my GP ?
13 Near the bus and railway station stood a Great Southern Hotel , not too different from the luxurious mansion I had known in Killarney .
14 He look different from the last time me and him were mates cos he 's got older .
15 In fact James Morris looked very different from the last time he had seen him , two years previously .
16 The insider said : ‘ She is frighteningly different from the self-effacing person she used to be .
17 As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February .
18 If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall .
19 And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents
20 However , although dependency and disability are high within the institutional population we must remember that a minority of the elderly have such problems .
21 At present I am only interested in the extra amount it costs to take the car out on the road .
22 He is also carrying an armful of her books and papers , and fielding an orange which rolls free from the overloaded briefcase she is cradling to herself .
23 How well no it was free to a good home it was please take it .
24 He indicated Danny , Belinda , sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused , and the others , who were patiently waiting .
25 So also , analogous to the bilinear form we have the functional bilinear in the function x(t) .
26 but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account .
27 If they were n't acceptable to the local council I was n't going to buy . ’
28 Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books .
29 But Ian McGeechan , the coach , will be dependent on the successful work he did on tour in Australia to get his players ready for tomorrow 's game against France at Parc des Princes .
30 Waugh heard BBC Third Programme discussions about himself , a form of torture he came to feel peculiarly representative of the modern age he despised .
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