Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON the eve of the most significant European Community summit of recent years , the French and West German governments moved quickly yesterday to avert a damaging split over plans to move to full European economic and monetary union . |
| 2 | The idea of a department of state concerned solely with foreign affairs had clearly still to fight for acceptance . ) |
| 3 | You 'll keep Marion constant company , and if she is — bothered — ’ her light voice paused just enough to give the word extra significance — ‘ you will tell me . |
| 4 | Well , she 'd lost her bonus now , she observed ruefully to herself as the tall dark stranger turned once more to look at her and remarked in a scathing tone of voice , ‘ I would say that , considering the state your car 's in , about the only thing it 's good for is to be used as a battering-ram . ’ |
| 5 | It was only with the American-led development from the 1900s of geriatric medicine as a new specialty , followed in the interwar years by self-help books and clubs encouraging older people to keep fit , travel , keep working , and — at least from the 1950s — stay sexually active , that informed European opinion began once more to swing towards a positive view of ageing . |
| 6 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 7 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 8 | By the end of January , however , the three east European countries were moving vigorously towards an associate membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) ; on Jan. 30 the Hungarian parliament voted almost unanimously to accept NATO 's offer of associate ( i.e. non-voting ) membership , and further to seek " close and institutionalised relations with the Council of Europe and the European Community " . |
| 9 | This was Eilean na Roin , the Island of the Seals , and the grey seals came ashore here to breed and to bask . |
| 10 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 11 | The Open champion arrived early specifically to play nearby Pine Valley and he said : ‘ I played the par three course there twice on Thursday , which was great . |
| 12 | The odd couple got together yesterday to urge all slap-happy mums and dads to ‘ count to ten and think again ’ . |
| 13 | A young industrialist stepped forward impatiently to make his case : ‘ I do n't see what you 're all making such a fuss about . |
| 14 | The Supreme Soviet failed twice more to approve the bill before the successful vote on May 20 . |
| 15 | One of the Australian diggers on the other hand went home early to apply his newly won knowledge to his home state of New South Wales . |
| 16 | Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers , but of folk singers , bearded or otherwise . |