Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn could barely think , let alone string coherent words together to form an answer . |
| 2 | Despite abandoning a planned £34m ( $66m ) European airline venture with Belgium 's carrier , Sabena , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , British Airways still wants an alliance with the troubled Sabena , but faces competition from other airlines pursuing the same goal . |
| 3 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 4 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 5 | West German politicians also sought an enlargement of the European Parliament . |
| 6 | Several early computers therefore provided an instruction to manipulate the operand field of another instruction ; instructions 18 and 19 on the Von Neumann computer ( Figure 1.5 ) are an example . |
| 7 | In particular , surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply . |
| 8 | Nationalised industries usually have an advantage against their ‘ sponsoring ’ ministry in that their management is more continuous than that of ministers and mandarins , but this was not the case for Citrine . |
| 9 | Indeed , the Maud Committee in some of its less contentious proposals simply represented an encouragement to practices already being developed in larger local authorities ( Greenwood et al . |
| 10 | The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB . |
| 11 | The stark statement on April 4th from the Basque separatists seemingly put an end to their longest-ever truce . |
| 12 | As do some mainstream poets , both groups of submerged poets often manifest an awareness of the body and of the physical world in which it lives . |
| 13 | At a time when neither the French army nor fiscal arrangements to meet its needs had been sufficiently developed to respond to a new military situation , the only possible response was none the less to call traditional forces together to form an army with which to intercept and , it was hoped , to defeat the English . |
| 14 | The pages of many of the new journals initiated after 1960 ( Table 1.1. p. 6 ) were commonly occupied by results of investigations of environmental processes and existing journals also reflected an influx of process-based papers . |
| 15 | Automatic systems usually have an in-feed/out-feed conveyor and sufficient forklift trucks to feed the system — again in each case they are not operating within the crane and storage area . |
| 16 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
| 17 | Kawasaki Heavy Industries recently won an order from British Aerospace to supply skin panels for the A321 Airbus , Japan 's first big order from the Airbus consortium . |
| 18 | We raced and splashed and it was quite easy and natural during one of these rowdy skirmishes simply to slip an arm through the water and put it around her waist . |
| 19 | This evidence from the southern suburbs clearly indicates an arrangement of elongated properties end-on to the frontages housing a variety of activities , but apart from a more generous allocation of space , little differentiates the associated buildings from their counterparts in the central area . |
| 20 | Limits are normally imposed on organic pollution and solids per unit of volume and often on ammonia , while industrial discharges frequently have an acidity or alkalinity ( pH ) parameter . |
| 21 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 22 | Part-time courses which are available for similar periods of study as for full-time courses usually involve an average of eight hours attendance at college each week , predominantly on a ‘ day release ’ basis . |
| 23 | The second set of expected values also included an adjustment for smoking habit derived from data in our second control group — the Renfrew-Paisley study . |
| 24 | With English furniture , American provenances sometimes provide an interest . |
| 25 | I considered erm arm unarmed officers actually making an enquiry er at the flat . |
| 26 | Perkin 's placing of the critical moment in the last quarter of the eighteenth century does not mean that a new demand for manufactured goods suddenly made an impact on the British economy around the time of the American Revolution . |
| 27 | g ) reference groups and opinion leaders : the life-style adopted by some of the single girls clearly indicates an orientation towards a particular type of reference group and opinion leader associated with encouraging " the use of natural products " , personal grooming and beauty ( etc ) . |
| 28 | And I think I 'm right in saying that to this very day , all American citizens officially take an oath of allegiance . |
| 29 | The NUM is firmly based within a definite branch of the division of labour , although it cuts across enterprise ( i. e. colliery ) boundaries and although its political interventions often find an echo in other branches . |
| 30 | Undefended cases currently take an average of 60 days in the High Court and 114 days in the County Court , while defended cases take around 100 days in the High Court and 128 in the County Court . |