Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bit her lip , remembering that awful time when the news had come that he had lost his life in the fire that had demolished his holiday hotel — and how the tragedy , for her , had turned into a nightmare . |
| 2 | After each fresh deluge only the skeleton of solid objects , the irregular vertebrae of furniture , trunks , packing-cases and other miscellaneous objects , was left standing over the swamp . |
| 3 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 4 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 5 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 6 | If the trends shown by my research continue and the numbers of night visits double again within another eight years then a reorganisation of this sort will become essential . |
| 7 | Most of the houses outside towns might justly be described as ‘ peasant ’ accommodation , for Sussex is one of the few English counties where the term had a real and continued significance . |
| 8 | If we follow this top road along a bit we 'll see the toll-booth for the suspension bridge and … |
| 9 | Looking at the remaining 16 error cases from our system ( see table 5.4 ) in more detail , it is clear that some of these can in fact be solved by applying some simple substitutions where the recognition has failed . |
| 10 | Being a bright lad , he worked out that it was an updraught from underground and a few removed boulders later the entrance to Lancaster Hole was revealed . |
| 11 | The pattern recogniser should be improved , perhaps by the use of some interactive techniques whereby the recogniser and the lexical look-up work together so that the look-up may be able to predict which characters could be next within a word . |
| 12 | The Semai ethic of sharing mandates that aid be given when it is needed ( with the expectation , to be sure , that it will be reciprocated by someone at some later date when the giver is in need ) , but any accounting or direct reciprocation is unacceptable . |
| 13 | ‘ But we believe we will get this 90 percent right the thought that has gone into it has been enormous . ’ |
| 14 | Another three years later the passion had cooled somewhat but genuine affection remained . |
| 15 | For the few brief minutes when the shelling ceased the scene before us looked very peaceful . |
| 16 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 17 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 18 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 19 | This involved university then a teacher training course at Jordanhill in Glasgow . |
| 20 | There might , for example , be some legal reason why the examiner could not administer the oath . |
| 21 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 22 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 23 | I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed . |
| 24 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 25 | Milton ‘ Where Old Old Cham , whom gentiles Annan call and Libian Jove , hid and her florid son , young Bacchus from his stepday Maria 's eye , nor where abasin kings there issue guard Mount Amara , though this by some suppose true paradise under the Ethiope line by head enclosed with shining rock a whole day 's journey high , but wide remote from this Asyrian garden where the fiend saw undelighted or delight . ’ |
| 26 | In terms of advice , what future plans does the company have for this particular model i.e. a school does not wish to buy a microcomputer which will not be compatible with the next range of microcomputers produced by that company . |
| 27 | I think if we had a if we if we tried , as you say , labelled the leads and tried to keep the leads together with the video recorders and perhaps stick a think on the video recorder saying which leads belong to this particular thing then the problem would be 'cos this would provide you with a checklist whenever you lent it out as to whether it was coming back , or provide the leads in other words |
| 28 | Response to art at this level demands both a willingness and a capacity to go beyond obvious and conventional ways of perceiving and a preparedness to accommodate and restructure existing concepts and patterns of relationships . |
| 29 | The rule 's important , but it should come from a need of the child rather than be imposed at some arbitrary time when the teacher thinks that all the children are ready for that rule . |
| 30 | In another two hours not a grain of sand is visible . |