Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the ICA cinemas Scorsese × 4 , a 75-minute programme of short , early and sometimes student films by America 's distinguished Martin Scorsese . |
| 32 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 33 | Saltburn struggled last season but they restricted hosts Middlesbrough to a total of 163 for six and then Mark Walker , whose 90 included 13 fours , and Indian professional Mukund Palmar ( 65 ) , shared an unbroken partnership of 137 to snatch a nine-wicket away win . |
| 34 | In a less flamboyant way , numberless provisions of state law , county councils , and local authorities , regulate and make possible the wealth , power , and by most people 's lights , the reasonable and necessary exclusivity , of clubs , societies , schools , and universities which foster fraternal and even class loyalties . |
| 35 | Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy |
| 36 | The rapist , believed to be aged 20 to 22 years , was described as lean but muscular and about 5ft 8in tall . |
| 37 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 38 | Our Daily Bread was released in 1934 and immediately Otis Ferguson contrasted ‘ Hollywood 's aversion to social content ’ to ‘ Mr Vidor 's preoccupation with it ’ . |
| 39 | Our cover was terrific and neither Scotland Yard bodyguard had a chance of spotting us . |
| 40 | In exchange for that and about £35 worth of New Zealand dollars , I got my validation from Canterbury AC 's CFI , Murray Fowler . |
| 41 | The steering was both ingenious and strong and again Mr. Player was called upon , on this occasion to provide the steering wheel . |
| 42 | While the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) decision R v Sanyo Electrical Manufacturing ( UK ) Ltd , is a case which is of interest in its own right , its real significance is that it is yet more evidence of an increasing awareness by the courts of the crucial role they have to play in securing a healthier and safer working environment by ensuring that infractions of health and safety , and related legislation , are properly penalised . |
| 43 | Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy ; after all , India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners . |
| 44 | Liberal Democrat Robert Maclennan formerly Labour and briefly SDP leader in 1987–88 , looks unassailable with more than 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 45 | The 158 or so student societies are funded by the Students ' Association . |
| 46 | After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households . |
| 47 | He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps . |
| 48 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 49 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 50 | Think instead about Quinta Paraiso da Mia , on the big sandy Luz Bay , just outside Lagos : a dozen or so apartment buildings linked by pathways in a shady garden , a minute 's walk from the beach . |
| 51 | At that moment Mr Sowerberry returned and , hearing what had happened ( according to the ladies ) , he beat Oliver so hard that even Mr Bumble and Mrs Sowerberry were satisfied . |
| 52 | However , it seems likely that neither Browne J. nor the Faulks Committee was asked to consider the implications of article 10 to which I shall later refer in detail . |
| 53 | No thought of any homework , and it was patently obvious that only Imran Khan and Javed Mianded seemed to be recognisable down there . |
| 54 | Unfortunately , cold war traditions appeared to die hard and neither Douglas Hurd nor James Baker seem to have ‘ factored in ’ a Soviet component for their proposals . |
| 55 | I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist . |
| 56 | How could Ezpeleta , a soldier-administrator well on in his seventies and now Captain General in Barcelona , be expected to appeal to the unemployed dockers , artisans , and cotton operatives , called by the French commander l'immense canaille de Barcelone , against an overwhelmingly superior French garrison ? |
| 57 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 58 | Peter Reid 's City team — who will be unchanged if neither Niall Quinn nor Keith Curle show reactions to the hamstring problems they defied to play against Leeds — need little motivating , though . |
| 59 | The reference to Newcomen engines disappearing underground is puzzling and perhaps Professor Hoskins misunderstood their function . |
| 60 | Water condition : Soft and slightly acid conditions . |