Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | DURACELL KRYPTON UNIVERSAL Design : functions three ways as spotlight , hazard warning light or as a free standing fluorescent lamp . |
| 2 | They are now looking for a good buyer who would be willing to continue their lifetime 's work , and either buy the stock separately , or as a whole package complete with factories . |
| 3 | Your personal injury library may be housed in a large library or in a separate section near to the personal injury lawyers . |
| 4 | Most commonly it is carried out on the open bench or in a laminar flow sterile cabinet . |
| 5 | Can you walk out from your home to a wet meadow , where snipe drum and redshanks call , or to a pond with frog spawn in spring and dragonflies in summer , or to a flowery meadow alive with buttercups , oxeye daisies and poppies ? |
| 6 | Baron of Buchlyvie was kept at Craigie Mains and as a three year old was exhibited as being owned by James Kilpatrick . |
| 7 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 8 | The Second World War , a war fought for freedom and against a Nazi dictatorship notorious for its racist policies , was something of a turning-point in this unhappy tale of race relations in the USA . |
| 9 | The grass might appear red , some trees would become magenta , and against a light background red flowers , such as poppies , would stand out as black blooms . |
| 10 | Right , have you starting to talk early and with a wide coverage unusual it is for their age example , classical music for a three year old , reading by the age of three , early ability and enjoyment of |
| 11 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 12 | It 's like I 've been dragged out of the pub and into a bloody video nasty . |
| 13 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 14 | Each distension lasted at least 1.5 minutes and until a steady state rectal CSA value . |
| 15 | In the ancient Near East similar conditions obtained and in a parallel manner divine despots became leaders of authoritarian welfare states . |
| 16 | The Junior Minister pulled himself up to his full height of five foot three , and in a plummy voice rich with haughty disdain said , ‘ What difference does that make ? ’ |
| 17 | We moved houses twelve months ago and I 'm still shocked that there are far more things to do around and in a spanking brand new house than an old one . |
| 18 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 19 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 20 | Through GEAR ( and on a smaller scale similar agencies in some other Scottish cities ) the SDA pursued a policy of bargaining and negotiation designed to mobilize private sector finance , voluntary sector initiative ( particularly in housing ) and local authority co-operation ( for example on the provision of land ) ( see , for example , Donnison and Middleton ( 1987 ) for a more developed discussion of GEAR ) . |
| 21 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 22 | During recent years there has been an increased use of audiovisual media such as tape-slides , films and video-tape , and to a certain extent computer-based instruction . |
| 23 | The survival of the other species of river dolphin is also precarious and to a certain extent unknown , as accurate figures on population numbers are lacking . |
| 24 | In July the YBC and the LYSG organised a joint Garden Party in the Inner Temple which was successful ( and to a small extent profitable ) despite the ‘ Garden ’ having to be Inner Temple Hall owing to rain , and it may be possible for the two groups to cooperate further in the future . |
| 25 | From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion . |
| 26 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 27 | In response to the recent devastation caused by gales and to a lesser degree late spring frosts , there is an ever-increasing galaxy of trees and shrubs waiting to take the place of those uprooted or severely damaged . |
| 28 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Russia , and to a lesser degree Red China , must be looking on with considerable satisfaction at the indecision which is being displayed by the United States as regards her future treatment of Japan . |
| 30 | From the 1850s and more particularly the 1870s onwards military considerations — new weapons , the importance of rapid and effective mobilisation in case of war , the balance of military and to a lesser extent naval power in general — were more prominent and pervasive than in the past . |