Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the two Korean states remained technically in a state of war ( the hostilities having been ended in 1953 by an armistice but not a peace treaty ) , many commentators felt that the December agreements laid a realistic foundation for the negotiation of a full peace treaty . |
| 2 | A group of 25 communicators , sociologists and people from the religious communities of North America and Asia have agreed on specific plans to work together for a more just global communication environment . |
| 3 | But by around 1020 , the quality of Norman coins declined markedly as a concomitant to the rapid increase in quantity . |
| 4 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 5 | The normal scientist works confidently within a well-defined area dictated by a paradigm . |
| 6 | The engine of The Abbott sounded deafening in the silence , the loud spluttering replaced rapidly by a rumble as the boat moved away from the pier . |
| 7 | It informs Flashman of the dire consequences of the club 's financial predicament , recommending that the controversial chairman sells out to a consortium as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | RIGHT Mandarin comes back to a hero 's welcome . |
| 9 | He wanted his personal belief and his professional expertness to come out as a single attribute . |
| 10 | Russell turned to Dexter with a look of surprise and irritation , as if he were a complete stranger butting in on a private conversation — which indeed was just how the sergeant felt . |
| 11 | ‘ And the villagers let a complete stranger drive off with a machine that could play music from the future … ’ |
| 12 | In fact , in his early days as a Palace professional Andy featured largely as a striker and he was Palace 's top scorer in 1985–86 with 10 League goals , but it was in midfield that his career really blossomed . |
| 13 | A lined mouth stretched back in a screech . |
| 14 | At 8 o'clock on Friday , June 15th , over 30 teenagers met in the church Family Centre for a strange ritual known only to a few as MIDNIGHTICESKATING . |
| 15 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 16 | Moving away from the terrace , broad steps drop down past a rose and herb bed edged with low growing box to the first lawn level , which would make an ideal play area . |
| 17 | The stuttering start , a last lap breakdown in Canada and the fiasco of Portugal , where his rear right wheel fell off after a pit stop , undermined his campaign . |
| 18 | Martin Lee of WHS felt that , to the group 's benefit , people were trading down in their gift buying generally and that some its higher priced books did well as a result . |
| 19 | It is also approachable at the other end of the spectrum , which is filled by the middle-class peasant or designer-green who has a few pet animals to fit in with a rural lifestyle . |
| 20 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 21 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 22 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
| 23 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
| 24 | He was young and very beautiful ; brown hair springing back from a broad forehead , blue eyes dark as pansies , a smooth , curling , sulky mouth . |
| 25 | Then in the 1960s British Rail came up with a novel idea for a faster train . |
| 26 | British Rail comes in for a fair bit of stick from travellers who would heartily support the loud speaker announcement heard by Philip White . |
| 27 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out of a carriage . |
| 28 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 29 | One suspects its high rating owes less to a fondness for social-democratic parties with close trade-union links than to a loose wish for economic efficiency plus social justice . |
| 30 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |