Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday spent the rest of the afternoon asleep on Endill 's bed . |
| 2 | The race , and the championship , were won at Monza , but not without difficulty due to Emerson 's fear of running out of fuel , which he conserved with characteristic prudence . |
| 3 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 4 | Heybridge 0 Maidenhead 1KICK-off in this Diadora League Division One was delayed 25 minutes due to Maidenhead 's late arrival . |
| 5 | ‘ A bit different from Liveseys ' place , eh ? ’ |
| 6 | My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard 's work . |
| 7 | Rabar and Matolcsy , although both in favour of rapid and fundamental economic restructuring , had clashed over policy , with Matolcsy favouring " supply-side " policies and tax concessions inimical to Rabar 's fiscal orthodoxy . |
| 8 | Scott 's estranged wife , Yvonne ( 25 ) , who admitted attacking the RUC constables , avoided prison because she is five months pregnant with McKinney 's child . |
| 9 | The band were forced to cancel their appearance at the recent MTV awards ceremony due to Gallup 's ill health . |
| 10 | Telephone services had been severely disrupted as the employees of Entel , the state telecommunications corporation , demonstrated against low pay and the threat of job losses due to Entel 's imminent privatization . |
| 11 | These districts were treated almost as if a presidential campaign was underway ; radio and television advertising time was bought ; mail and telephone blitzes were organized ; administration speakers Appeared and organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers , the US Chamber of Commerce , the American Medical Association and other organizations supportive of Reagan 's programme were mobilized . |
| 12 | The booklet with the CD asks listeners interested in Zeisl 's work to write to . |
| 13 | Will he continue to press for diversity in education through grant-maintained schools , through city technology colleges and through local management of schools responsive to parents ' wishes ? |
| 14 | Some time ago I achieved a longstanding ambition — a lead of Slape Direct on Llanberis 's Clogwyn y Grochan . |
| 15 | Maurice 's funeral was in many respects indistinguishable from Beatrix 's . |
| 16 | In chapter 5 below , David Howell , his leading backroom boy , describes the work of the Public Sector Research Unit , how it scoured North America for business methods adaptable to Whitehall 's needs and searched for think-tanks to visit . |
| 17 | Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 18 | Like that lion , its fierce eyes similar to Damian 's . |
| 19 | Statements from a witness unavailable to Gilmour 's defence lawyers at the time of his trial which corroborate his claims that detectives threatened and used violence when they interrogated suspects , have also been sent to Mr Lang . |
| 20 | Christianson and E. F. Loftus interpreted these results as supporting the idea of attention focusing in the arousal condition consistent with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 21 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 22 | For some Protestant thinkers , experimental science promised a way of reversing the effects of the original curse , a way of making a better world that might in some small way mirror the perfection of God 's heavenly kingdom , a way of restoring the world to a condition fit for Christ 's earthly rule . |
| 23 | In March 1940 , two months prior to Nizan 's death , Thorez launched a vitriolic attack on what he contemptuously designated as " the handful of wretched deserters , … cowards and weaklings , spies and agents-provocateurs " , who " had abandoned the position of the working class for that of the imperialists and planned to turn ( the ) fight for peace by the side of the Soviet Union into a policy of supporting the imperialist war mongering of the French bourgeoisie " . |
| 24 | Even Ivanovka , the only village not far from the Moscow railway line , had received its last single copy of a newspaper some months prior to Yakovlev 's visit . |
| 25 | The blending of wines was not an uncommon practice prior to Pérignon 's time , either in Champagne or elsewhere , but it was Dom Pérignon 's innate ability to construct a final cuvée , far exceeding in quality any previous blends , which led to his esteemed reputation in his own lifetime , creating a unique demand for the vins de Pérignon . |
| 26 | Heading the list of organizations concerned with women 's development were the Girl Guides , the Izamar Centre ( women 's section of the Opus Dei ) and the Association of Salvadorean Executive Secretaries . |
| 27 | Well there 's already half a tape full of Charlotte 's bodily functions . |
| 28 | The programme implicit in Newton 's gravitational theory gave strong heuristic guidance . |
| 29 | In several cases farm animals were also maimed , a practice reminiscent of Kenya 's Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s . |
| 30 | With over 60 per cent of households owning a VCR and virtually 50 per cent with at least two TV sets ; with 11 channels available via BSkyB 's Astra satellite , and over 10 per cent household penetration ; and video film rentals running at over 500 million per year ; the use made of a fairly stable total screen time per viewer is becoming progressively more diffuse . |