Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our rarer breeding birds in the United Kingdom have had a somewhat mixed year this summer , mainly due to the weather we 've had which has been very hot down south , but quite er wet and windy up north . |
| 2 | ‘ Then our engineer Robert Collins will try and sort out everything as much as possible out front , as we go along . |
| 3 | A garish and good-natured bi-monthly magazine , it advertises itself as Britain 's ‘ 5TH BEST SELLING MAGAZINE ! |
| 4 | Nevertheless , this decline took place during the late 1940s and 1950s when council housing was increasing . |
| 5 | From just 25p a day , you can help protect your dependents against the crippling financial penalty of losing a parent or partner — and secure yourself a cash payout … at the age of 65 if you 're aged between 18 and 54 when cover commences , or after ten years if you 're aged between 55 and 69 . |
| 6 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 7 | A boom period of speculative house building peaked between 1928 and 1936 when construction of 118,000 dwellings annually increased to 293,000 . |
| 8 | McGregor 's view of effective groups corresponds to Tuckman 's Stages 3 and 4 ie Norming and Performing . |
| 9 | On April 3 and 14 respectively defence co-operation agreements were signed with France and Austria . |
| 10 | The semi-annual World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , published in May 1990 , indicated that the rate of expansion of the world economy in 1990 , was likely to be the lowest since 1982 , but suggested that it would not be as severe as 1982 when world output rose by only 0.5 per cent . |
| 11 | One or two now winter regularly in Chichester and Pagham Harbours and single birds sometimes do so elsewhere along the coast . |
| 12 | And there are one or two fairly sort of good points that you can , that you can actually bear in mind when you 're writing . |
| 13 | The rare genetic disorder strikes apparently healthy boys between the ages of five and 12 when myelin , the fatty insulating sheath that surrounds nerve fibres , begins to disintegrate . |
| 14 | Certainly , there were broad differences between areas where the plough was dominant and those where grassland was typical , but within these areas there were many deviations from the norm . |
| 15 | The development of income raising schemes and projects will significantly increase the pressure of work on the Finance Section , even when linked directly to the Bank 's own Royline and while it is envisaged that the existing system should be able to meet requirements for the next four or five when replacement will be under consideration , additional staff will probably be required . |
| 16 | She had a blood sugar reading of a hundred and sixty yesterday afternoon , and we realised that with the lighter schedule her morning component of NPH insulin will have to be raised . |
| 17 | Generally , the tigers of the south are smaller and darker than those further north . |
| 18 | To a certain extent turnover follows that of the cash market in government securities : it rose in 1987 following the start of the new trading arrangements for gilt-edged securities and it fell in 1988 and 1989 when government accounts moved into surplus and there was a cessation of new issues . |