Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company told the news agency that it has sold more than 200,000 of the 95LX model and will continue to sell both models — but ‘ We expect the 100LX to be even more popular and open up a whole new market . ’ |
| 2 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 3 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 4 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 5 | By the time Mary was ready to go , her uniform was dry and showed only a faint mark or two . |
| 6 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 7 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 9 | They turned off sharply to the left and headed up a straight , sloping road between sombre stands of oak and beech . |
| 10 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 11 | She was pretty and crisply dark , her hair short and curling round a pointed face . |
| 12 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 13 | PREMIER John Major yesterday assured the Chancellor his job was safe and ruled out a festive Cabinet shake-up . |
| 14 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 15 | Take a tiny piece of fondant , colour it red and cut out a forked tongue . |
| 16 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 17 | The weathercock , caught by the breeze , swung sharply round and let out a loud , cross ‘ Cock-a-doodle-doo ! ’ right in Carol 's ear . |
| 18 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 19 | The church is Romanesque and approached along a tree-clad path that makes a very pleasant change from the more normal city approach — straight off the road . |
| 20 | This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel . |