Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 2 | Only one day ago the proximity had had my pulse racing . |
| 3 | Where the needs of discourse or the story require more specific information then a modifier is used : ‘ the boy ’ becomes ‘ the small fat boy ’ or ‘ he obtains the ticket ’ becomes ‘ he secretly obtains the ticket ’ . |
| 4 | I shall not anticipate the arguments here , but it is worth pointing out that in a context of incomes policy , struggles over enterprise policy and operations would assume an increased importance : if wage-determination were conducted on a more centralised basis then the focus of collective bargaining at enterprise level would have to change . |
| 5 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 6 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 7 | YFs these days include all sorts of riff-raff ; solicitors , accountants , stock brokers , that sort of socially unacceptable type exactly the sort Mick from Middlesbrough thinks should be subjected to an attack of class warfare . |
| 8 | If you 've got a slightly different attitude also an attitude . |
| 9 | Thus in the later second century BC the sculptor Timarchides worked with his brother Timokles on various commissions , including a statue of Apollo in Rome . |
| 10 | Well , about fifty year ago a suit of staple tweed cost £3 10s . |
| 11 | I think though this time here the post is a bit |
| 12 | She had refused to get up , now held his legs in a hug , and her face against his thighs , turning now one cheek then the other into the material of his trousers , just below his crotch , and he was dismayed that she might smell him , that his buttoned flies , however spick — and they were freshly laundered — might carry some old aroma all the same , for he knew how bodies animate and inform even the most lifeless paraphernalia , how Maria Filippa marked her hairbrush , her pillow , her section of the wardrobe , as surely with her scent as a roe leaves spoor for a hunting dog in a forest . |
| 13 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 14 | The Qumran Psalms Scroll has proved that in the second or even first century B.C. the collection of the Psalms was still open to modifications . |
| 15 | Figure 16 Jade burial garment of the Han princess Dou Wan from Mancheng in Hebei province , late second century B.C. The garment is made up of 2,156 saw-cut jade plates joined together by metal threads knotted through the corners . |
| 16 | Mr X is treated as having made a disposition of the property by a disposition which is a potentially exempt transfer hence the necessity to survive the seven year period from the date of the release . |
| 17 | I have a good job , a flat , a car , a mortgage , I take at least one holiday abroad every year , I have plenty of friends , life is full of possibilities . |
| 18 | I bought a long yearned for Gimson and Slater leather suite at an outrageous cost of £600 which I paid unfailingly each month over a year . |
| 19 | Thus , if the ridge is removed from a very early bud only the humerus will develop ; but if it is removed at a later stage the radius and ulna and wrist will develop but the digits will be absent . |
| 20 | P'raps yer puttin' too much importance ter the word love . |
| 21 | Her owner died , and she was living rough , so when she bounced into our kitchen and made it clear that that was where she wanted to stay in it was hard to turn her out , even though Fizzy finds a young and very playful cat rather a trial . |
| 22 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 23 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |