Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village or small town most famous and most visited as the home of the Bronte family seems an unlikely destination for railway enthusiasts , but at Haworth station the preserved Keighley and Worth Valley Railway has its headquarters and museum , where there is a collection of locomotives and rolling stock . |
| 2 | ‘ A six-strong team providing a service to all groups and accessibly based where the demand is greatest is cost-effective . |
| 3 | Even though this kind of action may cost a lot , I believe it to be money well and necessarily spent because the health of our economy and the health of our environment are totally dependent upon each other … . |
| 4 | I was relaxed and much recovered when a nomad appeared from behind a crag fifty yards away and looked down on me . |
| 5 | The surface is lifted out of the solution occasionally and gently washed until the stain is found to be satisfactorily developed . |
| 6 | Their busy preparations got slower and slower and finally halted as the realization dawned that the village was deserted , utterly deserted . |
| 7 | Different but in perfect harmony was the grotto scene , dark and the darkness more and more revealed when a glow of the outer night entered . |
| 8 | Their architecture , their courtliness , their ceremony were famous — but , like a profile miniature portrait , the result was one-dimensional : the jewels , the fineness of the turbans , the swirling details of the drapery — all were more lovingly and clearly drawn than the man inside ; the sitter 's thoughts and feelings , his character and emotions remain relatively opaque : unfathomed and incomprehensible . |
| 9 | The interior is spacious and finely proportioned though the illumination level is low on account of the slit-like fenestration ( 461 ) . |
| 10 | The yacht was stiff and well balanced as the breeze freshened . |
| 11 | Each parcel of butter is tasted with a long scoop and then re-weighed before a buyer will accept it . |
| 12 | Sarah ran forward , and then stopped as the ground fell away before her . |
| 13 | I sat down in the seat right by the door and , in between Seaforth and Litherland and Bootle New Strand , the doors suddenly opened and then closed while the train was moving . |
| 14 | As though carried by a mighty flood to its remote hilltop , surrounded by trees , and then abandoned as the water receded , the barrow is an almost alien presence . |
| 15 | The world of satire will surely be greatly and irrevocably diminished when the ink wells finally dry up at Ludgate House . |
| 16 | He is tart , relentlessly superficial and completely lost if a caller has a serious problem . |
| 17 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 18 | ‘ He was thrown aside and seriously injured while the car sped off . |
| 19 | Cranston turned and quietly cursed as the madman scampered across the snow to greet them , yelping like an affectionate dog . |
| 20 | The AEA believes that some of the waste could still be properly and safely cleared if a decision to this effect was taken soon . |
| 21 | In their introduction Sugden and John indicated in 1976 ( p. 1 ) that the study of glacial processes and forms had been left out in the cold and poorly understood because a gulf had arisen between those who study glaciology and those who study glacial landscape and deposits , and further that : |
| 22 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 23 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |