Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the corner of the picture was a holdall , a scientist would say it was the same as that used to weigh down Chalky White 's body when it was found in the lake near Cirencester . |
| 2 | I suppose I envy you , piecing together old Ash 's world-picture . |
| 3 | The somewhat less imposing Noah 's Ark Pet Shop in Northfield , Birmingham , is also listed by FIND the Film Information National Database set up by the commission at a cost of £500,000 . |
| 4 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |
| 5 | It is so unlike Natalia 's reaction when finding the Tutor and Vera together . |
| 6 | Whitbread winner Topsham Bay is unlikely to be near his peak , so one-paced Paco 's Boy seems the only remote danger . |
| 7 | Main picture Squaring the circle Below left Ingrid 's Granny Gorie — ‘ the best seamstress I 've ever had ’ — has been an invaluable source of advice Right and below right Orkney 's stark shorelines , wide skies and drifting clouds are echoed in Ingrid 's landscape pattern |
| 8 | There was no answer , and suddenly all Freddie 's experience , all his intuition told him to leave , but fast . |
| 9 | VBS used to give Output Manager away with their somewhat quirky VB No5 program but now seem to be spending more time developing the Output Manager rather than No5 ! |
| 10 | Only half-heeding Picasso 's advice — ‘ Do n't leave Paris if you want to be an artist ’ — Miro chose to spend his winters there and his summers in Mont-Roig . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was Anne-Marie 's aloof self-sufficiency that so inflamed Michel 's jealousy . |
| 12 | John Hay , seeing Johnson 's fear , talked to him all the time as to a child , trying to keep him cheerful , but this measure only excited Boswell 's scorn , especially when he heard Hay trying to distract Johnson with the antics of the local goats . |
| 13 | I never liked him wearing them , but I liked them even less round Quigley 's neck . |
| 14 | Such was his influence and so intense Massine 's study and application of the knowledge gained that other versions of Spanish dance by native choreographers made no such impact . |
| 15 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 16 | Is n't it rather terrible that what brings the pricking behind my eyelids is not old Eddy 's death , or even the thought of human mortality in general , but certain strokes of rhetoric — certain alliterations , repetitions , and verbal sonorities which do n't hold any literal meaning for me ? |
| 17 | Then the tight cysts , not unlike Maggie 's soap egg , glued onto the reed stalks , and swelling , swelling , splitting until finally the pictures captured the moment when the dragonfly broke from the chrysalis , crawled desperately up the reed stem and unfolded its glorious wings in the sunshine , spreading them out to harden , to firm up , to set , to grow strong . |
| 18 | Beyond these woods lay the round green hills of Donegal 's farmland , not unlike England 's South Downs , the fields bounded by tall hedges . |
| 19 | As for folie de groseilles vertes it is no longer perfidious Albion 's frailty , serene and cool , but a wild whirl of summer gaiety and greenery . |
| 20 | IMRO , the City watchdog responsible for regulating fund managers , has revealed that it was already probing Dumenil 's administration following complaints from investors that they were receiving their income late . |
| 21 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 22 | The early leaders in the Western Division won their first three matches , and not all Devon 's success belonged to Roebuck . |
| 23 | It was in this way that he discovered that not all Morris 's application with the typewriter was devoted to ‘ In Years Gone By . ’ |
| 24 | But while Saturday is vital , today 's news from Hillsborough occupies the immensely likeable Linighan 's mind even more . |
| 25 | Not poor Lena 's fault ; my fault . |
| 26 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 27 | Thus far Godric 's life is a model source . |
| 28 | Already awaiting Friday 's draw are Liverpool , 20 winners against Telford , and Kirkby Knowsley , who beat South Cheshire 3-2 . |
| 29 | Though the company has already muted Cisco 's marketing ( dropping the slogan : ‘ It takes you by surprise ’ ) , Mrs Novello says it must do more — perhaps change the bottle 's shape and colour . |
| 30 | And indeed what evidence is there that Sicily as a physical presence , a quite insistent presence as generations of travellers have found it , ever modified Pound 's sensibility in the least ? |