Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements …
2 I remember mostly the great joy and vitality of the churches and communities I visited .
3 Eventually the internal pressure and temperature rise sufficiently for thermonuclear fusion to begin .
4 The question at the time , in May 1941 , when the Vietminh was founded and Ho was talking bravely about taking on the combined French and Japanese armies in Vietnam was , of course , anachronistic : the two principal Allied powers had not yet entered the war .
5 Let's have a bit of light on the subject " She switched on the blue urinal and looked at it .
6 To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other .
7 Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
8 Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
9 Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
10 Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
11 He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it .
12 He switches on the interior light and picks up a bundle from the passenger seat .
13 I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead .
14 I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings .
15 If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read .
16 I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’
17 At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work .
18 Child gets up at 5.30am every morning and switches on the electric fire and all the cooker rings .
19 The timeswitch he 'd primed earlier had flipped on , switching on the electric fire and igniting the materials he placed over it .
20 She switched on the electric kettle and made a cup of instant coffee flavoured with powdered milk and artificial sweetener .
21 When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair .
22 As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ .
23 They suggest that , within the family , women take on the expressive role of nurturing the other family members , while men take on the instrumental role and go into the outside world to earn the family 's wage .
24 I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda .
25 At ten thirty-five , Rachaela switched on the main light and walked behind the screen into Ruth 's area .
26 He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone .
27 Now that the Asian elephant has been put on the endangered list and included in the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Survival Service , governments will find it difficult officially to sanction catching operations .
28 Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday
29 It is rather the inner emptiness or ignorance which the spate of words attempts to conceal .
30 Furthermore the sheer intensity and persistence of American pressure on Britain hardly suggests that Eisenhower 's policy would have been very different had there been no presidential election at the beginning of November .
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