Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although few performers really enjoy working under the glare of high-power lights , their use is sometimes essential , and the most acceptable way to use them for the illumination of small areas is to employ the technique known as bounce-lighting . |
| 2 | As they marched through the empty streets , however , a little old man put himself in front of the marching column and led the way , beating a kettle-drum and pronouncing the restoration of the Company Bahadur . |
| 3 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 4 | Not , not , terribly sorry Mrs to stop you in full flow , but we have n't got th this money . |
| 5 | An especially strong shower forced us into motion ; we fled , finding shelter under the gable of an apparently derelict croft . |
| 6 | Tories and Labour decry each other 's failures to voters who seem to believe , against all experience , that success is their birthright , and that only political stupidity deprives them of it . |
| 7 | So old Mokosh changed herself to a moorhen and ran through the meadows to the town , and Neva followed her . |
| 8 | Stanza three 's shockingly different mythology prepares us for ‘ This withered root ’ . |
| 9 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 10 | A pleasant stroll through gently wooden slopes brings you to a small clearing of luxury homes … |
| 11 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 12 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 13 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 14 | Only simple embarrassment prevented her from correcting it . |
| 15 | The path then continues straight , towards the pass and here a less distinct path leaves it to the right . |
| 16 | On another occasion he reflected that only hard work saved him from ‘ that melancholic staring into the abyss ’ . |
| 17 | No black faces , only white ones watching her without greeting . |
| 18 | His own journalistic scalps now adorned the walls rather than those of O'Mara — a photograph of the doorknob nose in the company of Mikhail Gorbachev , a flag of the African National Congress , and a TV award so shapeless Dexter imagined it to be modelled on a cow turd . |
| 19 | Two other extremely good chapters include one on the granivorous genus Pogonomyrmex and the exciting area of cooperative colony foundation in Atta leafcutting ants . |
| 20 | She awoke with her body lazily relaxed , only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night . |
| 21 | So poor Ben thought What on earth have I done ? |
| 22 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 23 | That same feeling of pride and excitement is here today and I use those so so meaningful words to greet you as your National President . |
| 24 | And this attempt to embrace a constantly shifting reality reminds one of course of the various series of Monet , including of course the famous series of paintings of the west front of Rouen cathedral , seen at different times of the day , and during different seasons of the year . |
| 25 | Your notes are not to be imperishable works of art , but merely businesslike tools to help you in your studies and in reaching the standard required by examiners . |
| 26 | Russia , to whom the Near East was almost if not quite as important as to the Habsburgs , also made considerable though less systematic efforts to provide herself with men competent in Turkish . |
| 27 | The limitations of other more ‘ correct ’ , less volatile Chopin struck one at every turn . |
| 28 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 29 | Diseases which cause our young only minor discomfort kill one in four children from Sierra Leone before their fifth birthday . |
| 30 | So I do n't think that we 're turning them away , I think it 's just in church that it 's probably not the most appropriate place to have lots of smoke . |