Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 2 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 3 | The question of a separate European defence identity had also dominated meetings in Paris on May 27 between Cheney and senior French officials . |
| 4 | The Malleny Park side has yet to decide on its final line-up but will relish the opportunity to end the season in a flourish at home and push themselves into third position . |
| 5 | The sacked Timex workforce have finally accepted that their nine month battle with the American corporation is over . |
| 6 | The European Badminton Union have already named a strong management team in Steve Baddeley as team manager and Denmark 's Poul Kold as team coach . |
| 7 | Groups who have normally felt able to assert a strong bargaining position did voluntarily restrain themselves for three years of evident national emergency . |
| 8 | The European computer industry has thus acquired a predominantly free market policy regime ( with , of course , significant elements of the other policy traditions ) . |
| 9 | The UN report blamed the army , the police and right-wing death squads for 12,000 disappearances since 1983 , confirmed that this was " by far the highest number recorded by the working group for any single country " , and suggested that there could still be many more ( a European Parliament team having recently reported its own estimate of 60,000 killed or missing ) . |
| 10 | Over a four-year period , 18 per cent compound approximately doubles , and Britain 's broad money supply has approximately doubled since that fatal Mansion House speech . |
| 11 | And you are taking it , rather any other , because our … usual carrier service has regrettably gone out of business . |
| 12 | As Representative Mo Udall has colourfully put it , ‘ It used to be that when you met a chairman in the hall you bowed low and said , hello Mr Chairman ; now when you meet a chairman in the hall he bows low . ’ |
| 13 | I suppose it 's remotely possible Clare was romantically involved with Jack Cornelius , although it does n't say much for my powers of observation that I was unaware of it , but it 's equally possible Rex Cunningham has simply jumped to the wrong conclusion : he was ever one to do that . |
| 14 | He says that his data showed that those businesses with low investment intensity did indeed start off with high ROI , as the earlier cross-sectional studies discovered , but that this often led managers to over-invest . |
| 15 | Private car ownership has almost doubled in the past 10 years , to 1.9 million in 1992 , and is predicted to rise to 2.5 million by 1995 . |
| 16 | The European car industry has increasingly become dominated by a small number of large companies . |
| 17 | The divine Miss Grimsilk has already arrived in Hochhauser — at her own request , unmet and unheralded — and will be coming to see me at one . |
| 18 | There are stories from the years that followed — hitching to the Isle of Wight festival and getting stuck in Piccadilly instead , working as a DJ across the Balearics , watching the islands ' booming club culture become internationally recognised . |
| 19 | Your great-grandfather was the most remarkable High King Ireland has ever known , Grainne ; he liked to listen to the talk of people from other cultures , and he liked to learn about other lands . |
| 20 | British Rail representatives have recently expressed their wish to site their sponsored trailer in BR training centres around the country . |
| 21 | The British Cichlid Association has just published two new colour information pamphlets on groups of Cichlids — Mbuna , and South American Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 22 | The Scottish Mountaineering Trust has also contributed and work will be carried out by Pathcraft Ltd . |
| 23 | But Now the Scottish Mountaineering club has just published a guide to all the 221 Corbetts . |
| 24 | But the French auction house has evidently decided to keep its foot in the door of this potentially lucrative market . |
| 25 | Many bilateral and multilateral aid agencies have rightly upgraded the importance of monitoring and evaluation in their activities , and as Chapter 2 has indicated , quantification and measurement of the impact of soil conservation are essential . |
| 26 | The Inland Revenue limits described above include any contributions made by your employer , so the total must therefore not exceed the allowed amount . |
| 27 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 28 | One of TV 's most popular quiz shows has just celebrated its one thousandth edition . |
| 29 | When unzipped the generous fabric panels flare open making it easy to put the trousers on even over large boots — an important consideration . |
| 30 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |