Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Devers , who came sixth , said : ‘ I 'm delighted to go home with one gold medal . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 3 | In the case of sails , spars , standing and running rigging it will be possible to apply UP TO one-third deduction from the new replacement cost to allow for deterioration due to use . |
| 4 | Continuity is important , and the dog is likely to respond best to one person , especially when learning new routines . |
| 5 | I declined a chocolate ; they were too large to take in in one bite and I feared to take two and risk cream and liqueur trickling down my chin . |
| 6 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 7 | Many anglers arrive for a couple of days fishing and seem quite happy to bivvy up in one swim and wait for the zander to arrive . |
| 8 | The answer is that these deceptions have to fool all possible predators and while some may be able to tune in to one detail others may have a searching-image for something quite different . |
| 9 | The Regional Council has just completed the provision of the first phase of access and servicing to the site , and is able to offer up to 4 development plots for sale or lease . |
| 10 | When first seen at the homoeopathic clinic , he was just able to get around with one tripod . |
| 11 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 12 | In view of the importance of language in education , the authors also suggest that the BPVT might be used to assess scholastic aptitude , although it seems unwise to rely solely on one test for this purpose . |
| 13 | With the help of access to party funds and forged papers they were able to move rapidly from one centre to another , and evade the intervention of the Okhrana . |
| 14 | There were no more dances in the balere to distract me ; partly because it was difficult to move freely from one village to another and partly because the evening curfew still applied . |
| 15 | To include all of the family members it may be necessary to ask explicitly for one member 's opinion . |
| 16 | Below mezzo-forte , 1 horn is sufficient to compete successfully with 1 trumpet or 1 trombone . |