Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house . |
| 2 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 3 | That same evening , but after Simon Cormack had fallen asleep and Sam Somerville lay in Quinn 's arms while the tape-recorder breathed into the wall socket , five time-zones further west the White House committee met in the late evening . |
| 4 | As the fighting died down , and the Marines began to drag away bodies and herd prisoners together , Mortimer came over to where Benny had joined Ace and Petion . |
| 5 | The operating conditions make short-term or spot contracts highly risky ; stockpiling is uneconomic , because bauxite has few alternative uses . |
| 6 | While oestrogen levels are high , the blood vessels remain in good condition , the walls of the vagina are thick and elastic , bones remain strong and skin blooms . |
| 7 | Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked . |
| 8 | It should be borne in mind that many labour-only sub-contractors lack administrative and management ability and therefore find themselves in financial difficulties when employing labour or expanding their gang size . |
| 9 | But while turnover is expected to grow , profits will remain depressed and job prospects poor . |
| 10 | Neither is it in terms made defeasible if Ellen Nicholl should die before marriage . |
| 11 | As Rose got older , Wesley 's orders got stranger and stranger . |
| 12 | But not long after this happy event Fergie became depressed that Andrew would be away in Australia for some months and that she and her baby were being ‘ abandoned ’ . |
| 13 | Sir Ranulph said he became bad-tempered and tensions developed between the two men as their strength ebbed away . |
| 14 | ‘ But the chairman did n't want that and results have improved anyway , ’ he said . |
| 15 | You can have first-rate candidates , experienced political and communications professionals and all the sophisticated equipment money can buy , but if you do n't have the grass roots organisation as back up you will probably fail . |
| 16 | Repeated notes , both in groups of twos and threes , are a characteristic feature of horn writing , and though passages requiring considerable agility are to be found in most modern scores they are usually well and safely doubled by other instruments , as they are apt to sound woolly and ill-defined in shape if left to the horns alone . |
| 17 | For instance , in the UK the Confederation of British Industry publishes a four monthly basis a national survey of the opinions of a lab sample of companies whether they expect their sales , exports , production , employment and investment to remain stable or change . |
| 18 | Bettelheim , while discussing the ‘ universal ’ and the personal significance of a range of traditional stories , provides convincing illustration of the power of reading to support self-exploration and self-integration . |
| 19 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 20 | The Centre is a joint venture between the Livingston Development Corp , a government-funded body set up in 1962 to develop new towns — this organisation provides Centre users with in-house advice on marketing and introduces them to the local information technology and software community ; Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd , a local enterprise company that provides training , commercial validation of business plans and advice on possible avenues to funding , such as venture capital ; and the Scottish Enterprise Software Group , which offers technical and product evaluation . |
| 21 | Mothers caring for their children on their own may need to find outside employment , and the strain of the dual role may result in a chaotic lifestyle where the children get less attention , household chores remain undone and mealtimes and bedtimes become erratic . |
| 22 | For construction of a triple transfer vector , pAcAB3 , one of the two ph promoters of pACAB4 was excised using Smal and BamHl enzymes , and followed by religation using a Sma I- Bam HI-linker . |
| 23 | The agreement became possible when Spain lifted its veto after agreement had been reached on setting up a fund to help the Community 's poorer members to pay for environmental protection measures . |
| 24 | Ballistic stretching is more vigorous , as the name suggests , and involves bouncing and jerking movements . |
| 25 | The policyholders ' rights enshrined in the voting trust will remain intact until Aegon increases its take in the plc to the 80 per cent mark . |
| 26 | David Jackson made 74 and Tony Gray 55 for the losers , while Ian Renshaw top scored with 51 not out for the winners . |
| 27 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 28 | For , as before , the credit instruments soon became used as means of exchange . |
| 29 | It may be that money worries are behind the disappearnce , but there 's no firm evidence to support that and police are carrying on with the investigation because there may yet be another explanation . |
| 30 | They had no children and the baronetcy became extinct when Harland died on Christmas eve 1895 at his Irish home , Glengorne Hall , county Leitrim . |