Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The operating conditions make short-term or spot contracts highly risky ; stockpiling is uneconomic , because bauxite has few alternative uses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But while turnover is expected to grow , profits will remain depressed and job prospects poor . |
| 8 | As Rose got older , Wesley 's orders got stranger and stranger . |
| 9 | Sir Ranulph said he became bad-tempered and tensions developed between the two men as their strength ebbed away . |
| 10 | ‘ But the chairman did n't want that and results have improved anyway , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ballistic stretching is more vigorous , as the name suggests , and involves bouncing and jerking movements . |
| 20 | David Jackson made 74 and Tony Gray 55 for the losers , while Ian Renshaw top scored with 51 not out for the winners . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The visitors made 91–9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41 . |
| 24 | Sunnyvale , California-based Weitek Corp says its Weitek Power 9000 graphics accelerator now supported Intel Corp 's PCI Peripheral Components Interconnect local bus , bringing workstation performance to machines using 80486 and Pentium . |
| 25 | I think it 's rather important in connection with the north eastern A sixty four sector to realize that and reference has been made to the M A F F Central Science Laboratory , that it was a condition specified by M A F F in nineteen ninety , that their site should be a green field site free of airborne pollution . |
| 26 | In order to make some provision for this common approach to information sources , it is necessary to arrange documents- and document surrogates in catalogues , indexes bibliographies , computer databases and so on — in such a way that items on specific subjects can be retrieved . |
| 27 | When the Earl arrives in Bristol , Matilda and the prince will be allowed to go free and Gloucester 's son likewise . ’ |
| 28 | The scents of its rare grasses and reeds drift gently on the wind bringing calm and tranquillity to its banks . |
| 29 | He has managed to remain popular and reformist — despite criticism from a vocal , if not powerful , opposition — by getting ordinary people involved . |
| 30 | With the entry of Russia and America into the war , victory became conceivable and Labour 's German policy hardened accordingly . |