Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grossly unstable patient from a referring hospital turns out to be a typical ( for us ) unstable angina ; a patient with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia can only come to Barts for the appropriate highly specialised medical or nursing therapy ( or one of the few other centres , most of which are also on the Tomlinson hit-list ) . |
| 2 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 3 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 4 | Mr Maconie should realise that the Roman Catholic hierarchy does f— all to help AIDS victims , seeing it as a gift from God to rid the world of some of its scum , when it has the power to change attitudes for the better all over the world . |
| 5 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 6 | It has been used successfully in the drilling of the first extended-reach well to the offshore extension of the Sherwood reservoir lying under Poole Bay and is now being used for the second well being drilled . |
| 7 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 8 | For the second most important place in the Government , that of Foreign Secretary , he initially chose J. H. Thomas , a man of coarse speech and coarser wit who had demonstrated his administrative talents in directing a succession of railway strikes . |
| 9 | Instead , the combined amount payable from next April will be £19.40 for the first child and £18.65 for the second onwards . |
| 10 | He co-authored the first Dalek movie , and wrote dialogue for the second virtually single-handedly . |
| 11 | A large ( 33 million word ) corpus was taken and sets of ten nearest neighbours of words derived for the thousand most common words in the corpus . |
| 12 | GARY STEVENS ' injury torment took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Rangers full-back was ruled out for up to six weeks with a stress fracture of the knee . |
| 13 | CONFRONTATION between Hong Kong and China over Governor Chris Patten 's democracy proposals took a marked turn for the worse yesterday when the colonial administration ignored Beijing 's reservations and published his new democracy blueprint ready to go into law . |
| 14 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 15 | Later she mastered Braille , learned to type and later took lessons from a teacher for the deaf so that she could go to school , then college and later spent her life lecturing all over the world . |
| 16 | The founder of Edinburgh 's school for the deaf originally believed in ‘ total oralism ’ yet later used the ‘ combined system ’ — a teaching of both speech and signs , which was also to be taught in the ensuing schools for deaf around Europe . |
| 17 | £20,000 appeal for fourth bus DARLINGTON 'S special bus service for the disabled yesterday launched an appeal to buy a new bus . |
| 18 | The legislation , hailed as the strongest civil rights protection for the disabled anywhere in the world , prohibited discrimination in employment , public accommodation , transport or telecommunications . |
| 19 | A stodgy mix of colonial history , racial paranoia , wet hankie sentiment and rough-hewn myth-making , it laid the ground-work for the Western even before the frontier had advanced much beyond the west of New York State . |
| 20 | Alum Pot is palpably not a place for novices to explore , and for the uninitiated most interest will be found in the north corner of the same field . |
| 21 | Perhaps , the thirst for the spiritual really is a fundamental human urge . |
| 22 | He 's a cultural icon , a standard-bearer for the dispossessed yet still proud black urban youth . |
| 23 | More than anything else it has changed the public lifestyle of Catholicism for the ordinary churchgoer so that it is hard for the young actually to realize that thirty years ago Mass said wholly in Latin , including even a first reading of Epistle and Gospel , was simply taken for granted by most people . |
| 24 | There is therefore a real need for the adequate provision of residential homes catering for long stay mentally handicapped children , and an equal need that such homes offer the right type of care for the young mentally handicapped child . |
| 25 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 26 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 27 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 28 | but go for the six o'clock showing cos it 's two pound ten pence . |
| 29 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |
| 30 | I drove to the Birmingham Hippodrome in time for the 11 o'clock production meeting with the contestants . |