Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical developments made possible both a greater variety and quality of signals and also more convenient ways of listening . |
| 2 | Against the evidence of the German authorities and the German police , and given that even the Israeli secret service thinks that others may have been involved , would it not at least be a sensible plan to talk to the Arab League about the very serious problem of Lockerbie and at least consider accepting the request to send British and American judges in the first instance to a trial under Libyan law ? |
| 3 | That 's no trivial task given that even the latest , X-Windows X11R5-based release of Motif , 1.2 , comes with nine patch releases ( as of June ) . |
| 4 | Given that neither The Blue Aeroplanes nor Levitation have exactly torched the charts with tunes of fire , the chances of a group formed by ex-pats from both of said bands formulating an instant pop nirvana appears about as likely as Spurs winning the Premier League . |
| 5 | It well it does tapes yeah but it 's like the bass keeps on going down then it goes high then the main bit 's like You know what I mean it all gets crapped up so i 'll tape it again . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 7 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 8 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 9 | World War I , therefore , came as a terrible blow , but she persevered in keeping alive both the British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation and the World 's Labour Laws — to such effect that in February 1919 it was she who wrote the draft to the Paris commission on the basis of the International Labour Office to be established by the Versailles treaty . |
| 10 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 11 | If they appear new then the electrical wiring is possibly up to scratch , since no professional electrician would install new power points without checking the wiring first . |
| 12 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Erm now you 've done that quite a few times before N A O so do the N A O H first and you should be able to whiz through that . |
| 14 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 15 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 16 | Philip Simmons , their only World Cup century-maker , added two more the only times he batted , smashing five sixes and 12 fours in 122 off 113 balls in the first match and two sixes and 10 fours in 104 off 139 balls in the third . |
| 17 | He woke clear-eyed late the next morning . |
| 18 | They 'd both had little enough the previous night . |
| 19 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 20 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 21 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 22 | Thus , if — as an outside observer — you listen to ‘ core ’ vernacular Belfast speech , it will actually sound all much the same to you : you will not easily observe without systematic analysis many of the differences that exist and you will not usually be able to tell how far these co-vary with social factors , such as age , sex and area . |
| 23 | It really is a multi-million pound industry … convincing people they could look better just a few pounds or stones lighter and this is how to do it . |
| 24 | ‘ All the farms in France are lying idle now the white people have gone into space . ’ |
| 25 | The size of the " yes " vote surprised both the National Party ( NP ) government , which was seeking a renewal of its mandate for negotiating a political settlement with anti-apartheid organizations , and the Conservative Party ( CP ) which led the " no " campaign . |
| 26 | Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split . |
| 27 | HSBC chairman Sir William Purves said : ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . |
| 28 | ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year , and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I have simply one question to ask of you and , before you answer , I must inform you that I know full well the delicate details of your personal relationship with the late King . ’ |
| 30 | The senior ( 16-19 years ) boys 100 metres butterfly produced a keen battle in which Mark Wolfenden ( Chester ) returned 57.74 just a half metre ahead of Steven Mavin ( Ramsay Abbey ) 58.04 with David Carr ( Dronfield ) a close third in 58.62 . |