Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always regarded that as my Birthday present , of course my happy birthday only lasted about anther hour . |
| 2 | Rolls my staring skull slowly away into outer space . |
| 3 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 4 | In a bizarre case that has once more focused attention on the accountability of art restorers , a United States Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments on a decision that , for now , requires an American city to pay more than half-a-million dollars for restoration work on a city-owned mural which that city never contracted to restore . |
| 5 | But it has always produced two results : support from other fans who think Newcastle are n't half lucky and complete silence from the club which many fans also accuse of poor public relations except on one occasion when the assistant manager was economical with the truth . |
| 6 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 7 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 8 | As a result the tension which this conflict inevitably creates makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to get close to young people in residential care . |
| 9 | Suzie dragged her unruly locks to the nape of her neck and snapped a clip across the tangles , scowling at the dishevelled effect her best efforts always created . |
| 10 | Then Brian Pendreigh will begin and tell of political correctness in children 's books which some authors now fear amounts to censorship |
| 11 | BRITISH scientists and businessmen are trying to break into a vital slice of the semiconductor industry which foreign companies now dominate . |
| 12 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 13 | But it was the IHSM who five years ago produced a report suggesting that new ways of delivering health care should be explored including separating providers from purchasers . |
| 14 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 15 | LORD Hanson , the crafty deal-maker who three months ago clinched Britain 's biggest takeover bid by paying £3.3billion for Consolidated Gold Fields , yesterday confounded the City with the £420million sale of a US offshoot . |
| 16 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 17 | Generally in rational expectations models in macroeconomics the policy rule generating the prediction for a variable comprises an equation whose determining variables typically comprise both lagged endogenous variables ( e.g. values of and lagged exogenous variables ( e.g. ) . |
| 18 | That happened with one American actress whose very name now depresses me . |
| 19 | Randy Crawford Veteran soul diva whose live shows often features a maudlin rendition of that old John Lennon chestnut , ‘ Imagine ’ . |
| 20 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 21 | In his inaugural speech on 28 July , President Fujimori promised to fully respect human rights : ‘ The terrorist violence our fledgling democracy currently faces can not justify the occasional or systematic violation of human rights . ’ |
| 22 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 23 | A more formal and impersonal system of management , of the kind which other farmers disparagingly attribute to manufacturing industry , therefore prevails . |
| 24 | In addition their mottled leaves significantly extend the season of interest , so be quite sure to allow enough space for them to reach their full potential glory . |
| 25 | We 've also remembered again the sometimes potent hurts of time gone by , realising that the passing years do not always lay to rest the stretched emotional reactions which those experiences once forced upon us . |
| 26 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 27 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 28 | Indeed , the basic British attitude had been summed up admirably by Churchill himself many years earlier when he wrote , in an American periodical in 1930 , ‘ We see nothing but good and hope in a richer , freer , more contented European commonalty . |
| 29 | This new approach is known as cognitive neuropsychology , and it attempts to explain the impairments which neuropsychological patients unfortunately experience within the vocabulary of cognitive psychology . |
| 30 | The harness stank of dog , that unpleasant smell which big-dog owners never seem to notice in their own house . |