Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 2 | There is only one type of personal family document which survives right through the last three centuries in really significant numbers . |
| 3 | There is much to be said for continuing the practice of reading to children right through the later primary years , letting them hear the cadences of book language and , where possible , letting them follow the text as well . |
| 4 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 5 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 6 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 7 | Union des populations camerounaises ( UPC — Union of Cameroonian Peoples , operating latterly as a Paris-based clandestine organization , having been banned since 1960 ; it was held responsible for unrest in the 1960s and was regarded as communist-led ) . |
| 8 | We will make good use of agency flexibilities in meeting our targets , and deliver programmes and services cost-effectively through a unified local office network . |
| 9 | We will make good use of agency flexibilities in meeting our targets , and deliver programmes and services cost-effectively through a unified local office network . |
| 10 | Since then it had gone very badly for the small Halfling regiment . |
| 11 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 12 | We have put in an offer but it seems there is a vacuum somewhere between the two naval ministries . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 14 | None of the boreholes installed properly during the past 18 months has broken down . |
| 15 | Why , if big remains beautiful , have big companies performed so badly during the past two decades , especially in America and Britain ? |
| 16 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 17 | Fusion funding remains steady , but with the money now divided mostly between the two leading machines , the tokamak and mirror-fusion . |
| 18 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 19 | These animals have changed little during the 400 million years since they evolved , and still retain their strange eyes . |
| 20 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 21 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 22 | But among the oldies who have given the project their support are Malcolm McLaren and Elvis Costello , which suggests that the ENO is looking for something a little off the beaten operatic track , not to say strange and unusual . |
| 23 | Harry Dodson and his wife are well versed in the language of flowers , and have made wedding bouquets professionally for a good long time : they made the beautiful posies for the Victorian wedding in the forthcoming television series The Victorian Flower Garden . |
| 24 | It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded . |
| 25 | These are ‘ novels squared , novels of novels ’ , a formula which tells us little about the actual narrative rendition of the works in question , but a great deal about the unhappiness of the critic . |
| 26 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 27 | Sunlight probed reticently through the thick green canopy , dappling random clumps of fern underfoot . |
| 28 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 29 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 30 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |