Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 2 | With some of the other interested officers I worked out a syllabus for training selected junior officers in the rudiments of seamanship and navigation using Venturous as a practical training ship . |
| 3 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 4 | ‘ Enjoy our disco-bats in their jungle gym in the sky ! ’ was the enticing offer stripped across the GG 's Barnum Room doors , the disco-bats being male acrobats who performed over a net draped just above the heads of the dancers . |
| 5 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 6 | Despite their pitifully limited numbers they threw down an inspiring challenge to the might of the autocratic regime . |
| 7 | With clumsy fingers he took out a pack of cigarettes and tried to light one . |
| 8 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 9 | At a joint one-day Wedgwood and Sotheby 's identification and valuation event at the Westfries Museum , in Hoorn , Lynn encountered many Dutch visitors who brought in a variety of heirlooms or pieces they had collected . |
| 10 | Gold in its natural form glows deep amber yellow , but when mixed with the various alloys it takes on a variety of hues . |
| 11 | the various formats which make up a style sheet- paragraph settings , margins and columns , page layouts , hyphernation and justification , widow and orphan control and automatic section numbering . |
| 12 | They stressed London 's constant theme of ever-more open markets which chalked up a success with this week 's unexpected decision to break down restrictions on competition in the European airline industry . |
| 13 | It tells the story of the development , testing and eventual use of the atomic bombs which brought about an end to the Second World War . |
| 14 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 15 | Artists had been hired especially to prepare these culinary masterpieces in the lifelike forms of birds , beasts and cattle , jousting courtiers in full armour , soldiers battling with cross-bows , knights dancing with ladies ; all were vividly depicted in the gilded confections which rose over a yard high from the groaning dining tables . |
| 16 | A GANG of professional thieves who staked out a house in Bentworth last week got away with a £20,000 caravan . |
| 17 | There are dangers for voluntary organisations who take on an increased responsibility for service provision . |