Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rose 's looks went back to an earlier time with big , wide eyes and strong yet delicate profile . |
| 2 | It was a handsome Georgian house , with a white-painted front door , approached by three steps and two elegantly curved iron handrails . |
| 3 | The list included two acquaintances and one very dear friend of mine . |
| 4 | Grey white chewing gum matter presents itself spasmodically at her mean Glasgow lips , alternating with her cigarette which is sucked when it is not rolling druggedly about on top of her ticket-issuing machine or charging up and down , and off , the long seat , dropping its fire and ash amongst the plastic cups and other less white rubbish , further propelled by chewed and muttered whinings about the discordant duet of erratic driving bus man and undone Corporation road holes . |
| 5 | We just went out for days and that really last week . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , significant explorations were made of the types of cooperative support that could be developed , between schools and teachers from different schools , and between a variety of other educational institutions such as colleges , polytechnics , universities and that peculiarly British innovation , the teachers ' centre . |
| 7 | The bottom rectangular picture shows a spray design , made from thalictrum leaves , forget-me-nots and grasses , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ red roses , hydrangeas and some very small astrantia flowers . |
| 8 | Whitley , a willowy former City banker , peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse . |
| 9 | Although it 's usually an ache , some people get sharp , shooting pains and other just mild discomfort with pins and needles . |
| 10 | Taking as our example the range of Irish English perfect constructions , we find an absence of semantic isomorphism between any set of Irish English sentences and any semantically related set of standard English sentences which exemplify the range of perfect constructions . |
| 11 | Fill with 175g/6oz smoked sliced ham , one or two sliced beefsteak tomatoes and six finely shredded spring onions . |
| 12 | This period convinced him even more that merely eating less cereals and other more uncommon food products , such as tulip bulbs , improved the clinical condition of his patients . |
| 13 | The vineyards produce table grapes and some very good wine . |
| 14 | So there 's me and a mate up a ladder with chain saws and that nearly all day yesterday , good fun actually . |
| 15 | Extracts of 44 tumours and adjacent macroscopically normal tissue were examined in radioimmunoassay using the following antibodies : ( i ) L289 raised to a C-terminal fragment of progastrin which shows specificity for intact progastrin , but not the extreme C-terminal tryptic peptide ; ( ii ) LW60 raised to a C-terminal fragment of progastrin which reacts with progastrin and its C-terminal tryptic peptide ; ( iii ) 109–21 which was raised to , and reacts with , Gly-extended forms of heptadecapeptide gastrin — that is , biosynthetic intermediates on the pathway producing active gastrin ; and ( iv ) L2 which reacts with amidated , biologically active gastrins . |
| 16 | It is virtually never seen in celibate women and one very large survey in the United States failed to detect a single case among 30000 nuns . |
| 17 | These roads open up the rainforest to waves of settlers who move into the forests and clear even more land by fire . |
| 18 | Certain common elements in the New Primary Approach and the Primary Education Improvement Project — ambitious goals and policies , unrealistic time scales , high hopes and eventual very fragmentary success — may be traced in other big centralised projects throughout Africa . |