Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States had provided a reasonably stable inflationary ceiling up to the mid-sixties . |
| 2 | A quick blast in the G40 is enough to confirm its place in the junior hot-hatch line up . |
| 3 | The effect of this , of course , is to induce an ability to postpone oral instinctual gratification along with a concern about the availability of food — a character ideally suited to the demands of delayed-return systems of subsistence such as seasonal hunter-gathering or , still more , cultivation . |
| 4 | With Lord Harris , he frazzled his goose even more thoroughly by running the creaky old aristocrat out in a charity match and taking the field at Lord 's by the same gate as his professionals . |
| 5 | The new jobs will bring total Scottish employment up to 616 at the company 's knitting , dyeing , cutting , sewing and distribution facilities . |
| 6 | The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies . |
| 7 | Could we get a little discreet sexual interest in , do you think ? |
| 8 | It is hard to describe the feeling I had as I persuaded her scaly old feet on to my finger and gave her a dose of my very own medicine . |
| 9 | disconnected the gas , took that bloody old heater off , connected it up somewhere else and whatever they 're gon na do and then the gas is coming through a fire . |
| 10 | The United States had a strong direct interest in seeing that Britain did not try to solve its payments problems [ in ways which ] would have added to the burden on the United States . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 12 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 13 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 14 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 15 | He put the bottle on the low table and laid the old horn-handled corkscrew down beside it , a patient sacrifice to the economies that her careless pregnancy necessitated . |
| 16 | You put the wrong bloody bridge in if you forget the implications on track or |
| 17 | The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " . |
| 18 | Sogono and I sat on the dock beside the cargo — the crafty old Bugi way out to sea — before restoring ourselves on sticks of shrimp satay and bowls of turquoise ice , yellow maize , red beans , and syrup . |
| 19 | The side 's Paul Harper also claimed the top aggregate score out of 80 competitors . |
| 20 | Kaprun is an ideal centre for walking in beautiful alpine scenery , with every route you choose offering fantastic views particularly if you take the high alpine road up to the Gross Glockner , the highest mountain in Austria . |
| 21 | Wet Wet Wet mosey down to Memphis to work with Willie Mitchell in the studio he used to record Al Green ; Dr Robert duets with Curtis Mayfield . |
| 22 | ‘ To have a 58-page French document in on Monday which needs translating to English by Thursday is quite a task , ’ says Jenny . |
| 23 | Just ye tell me now , have ye seen that old wooden ship down there in the ice , or no , ? ’ |
| 24 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 25 | The new accelerating system that the French developed speeds up from three to 12 km/h without knocking passengers off their feet . |
| 26 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 27 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 28 | So is the German commercial-property market about to crash ? |
| 29 | She always says I ca n't be bothered to play the piano , I ca n't play that and I have to make some shitty little tune up |
| 30 | She could not see the state of Eleanor 's neck because Eleanor wore the collar of her crisp white blouse up . |