Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 2 | Spared that sort of indignity , the 22 horses and riders approached individually for a staggered start . |
| 3 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |
| 4 | FACES WITHOUT HOPE : Bosnian captives peer blankly from a barbed wire compound in the Omarska camp . |
| 5 | The complex carbohydrates , which are found in vegetables , cereals and to a lesser degree in fruits , are composed of numerous sugar units joined together in a complex way . |
| 6 | Hundreds of motorists abandoned their cars to dash across to a local radio station after a DJ offered scores of free tickets to the band 's concert . |
| 7 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 8 | The very wide shoulders narrowing sharply to a slim hip on a longer jacket was the biggest influence on menswear at the time and he took the world by storm . |
| 9 | Calves sold well in a steady trade , with continental bulls peaking at £248 , while heifer calves sold to a top of £200 . |
| 10 | Even the daylong scream of the gulls was silent in here , and the hooters and sound signals arrived only as a distant complaint . |
| 11 | Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second . |
| 12 | Twelve oystercatchers flew past in a straight follow-my-leader line , piping ecstatically . |
| 13 | Half a dozen craftsmen and designers worked together in a single clapper-board building . |
| 14 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 15 | The intense blue of her eyes shaded away into a translucent green in a bright light , burning into emerald in her moments of laughter or animation , clouding over into a ferny darkness when she was grave . |
| 16 | In the Kenyan savannahs where chimpanzees were first studied intensively in the wild , the animals live primarily on a vegetarian diet of fruit and leaves , together with insects such as termites . |
| 17 | They then worked slowly through the chronology , all the parties sitting informally round a small table ; so informal , in the mythology , that the subsequent TV docudrama put Meese in a startling pink-and-lavender tracksuit , drinking coffee from a mug . |
| 18 | They watched a fat frog plop into the pond , its skinny back legs paddling frantically under a perfect white lily . |
| 19 | In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses . |
| 20 | The requirement was for vessels to operate habitually from a national port ( p. 222 , para. 28 ) and , hence , for vessels to be present at national ports with a certain frequency ( p. 224 , para. 40 ) . |
| 21 | That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament . |
| 22 | During the Permian period , about 280 million years ago , and until the start of the Mesozoic era , the continents came together in a single mass . |
| 23 | Michael Scott describes the practical proposals put forward in a new report on this contentious issue . |
| 24 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 25 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 26 | The range of views put forward in a small sample of recent works on the subject ( see Abbott , 1987 ; Berardi , 1985 ; George , 1985 ; Tullis and Hollist , 1986 ) , illustrates well the complexities of the issues and the difficulty of solving them . |
| 27 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 28 | Yet one more distinction is the conclusion that the Japanese use more unique parts — elements designed specifically for a particular model . |
| 29 | The trick is to get all three ingredients to come together in a smooth and easy symmetry . |
| 30 | However , most businessmen looked forward to a speedy lifting of wartime controls . |