Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |
| 2 | Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy . |
| 3 | Some metopes , for instance the beautiful and comparatively well preserved Herakles and the hind ( fig. 63 ) , show a precise , linear definition of forms in the archaic tradition . |
| 4 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 5 | In addition the large and perfectly matched pearls outlining the margins of the mitre crown and the balas ruby of 414.3 carats mounted at its apex were enough to proclaim her ready access to the treasures of the orient . |
| 6 | They outstay , outnumber and invariably outmanoeuvre the elected and less intellectually endowed political elite , should the latter even contemplate acting against the ‘ powers that be ’ . |
| 7 | The dapple grey is course the traditional and most popular finish for a rocking horse , but other painted finishes are also used ; plain black or white , palomino , piebald etc … |
| 8 | To add to the confusion the old-fashioned but still prevalent school ethics dictate that girls in trousers are somehow ‘ rude ’ . |
| 9 | The official 's duty is to have in mind the best and most effective and efficient means of carrying out the council 's decision . |
| 10 | LITTLE GULL Larus minutus The smallest and most tern-like gull of the region . |
| 11 | A couple of black kids no more than about nine years old appeared from nowhere , hands in pockets , just sauntering by . |
| 12 | The second attempt is always much better than the first and any experience of hearing your answers voiced out loud will make the eventual interview an easier and more constructive experience . |
| 13 | And F I B's the next and then you 've got convertible term . |
| 14 | Items ranging from cloths and brushes to mops and buckets make this class of equipment the widest and most diverse . |
| 15 | Happy birthday for December the tenth as well . |
| 16 | ‘ Twinky ’ , however , without question the fairest and most sporting player ever to don an Athletico shirt , was full of remorse and insisted that the referee , who had not even blown for a foul , send him off . |
| 17 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 18 | A safe place Both said they were delighted the scheme had begun two weeks ahead of schedule and promised residents and visitors a safer and more pleasant place to shop . |
| 19 | Pollen evidence shows that even in the Amazon basin , maize was being grown some 6000 years BP and that there was forest clearance a thousand or possibly three thousand years ago at Lake Victoria in Central Africa . |
| 20 | By the Monday they were to shout down with peculiar virulence a similar although more long-winded question by Churchill . |
| 21 | The first is that of many Catholics who already thought the Council a strange and almost unnecessary development . |
| 22 | He is backing a new campaign launched by the National Children 's Home calling on the government to provide more funds for respite care to give parents an occasional and much needed break . |
| 23 | She wondered if the shredded look was at the almost unthinkable idea of a woman Prime Minister or at Cassie 's trenchant dismissal of Britain 's wartime defences ; but for the moment the confident and very arrogant ‘ leave everything to me , I know what I 'm about ’ look had been most thoroughly squashed . |
| 24 | Of more immediate concern to governments and , it seemed , likely to produce much quicker and more clearly identifiable results , were the growing efforts which many of them were now making to use for their own purposes the new or greatly strengthened force of the newspaper press . |
| 25 | These expansions , furthermore , introduce ideas no more than potentially implied in the Horatian phrase : " renews the plain " , " fashion " , " suffers " , " shakes " . |
| 26 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 27 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 28 | Making the child molester a Nazi as well is perhaps overstating the point about the monster within us all but this is a cleverly made film that hits the middle market spot-on . |
| 29 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 30 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |