Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 2 | ‘ We have made inroads into schools like Coleraine Inst , Dalriada and Dominican College where boys hockey is n't on the curriculum , and we must be able to offer the youngsters proper facilities . ’ |
| 3 | Such preservation greatly aids identification and correlation , and in consequence much new information on the morphology and evolution of this important fossil group is becoming available . |
| 4 | It was one of those days when police academy cadets were controlling the traffic and miles of brightly coloured taxi-cabs slithered very slowly up the avenue of graceful skyscrapers like banded snakes between jungle trees . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union is the major supplier to Sub-Saharan Africa where arms spending has risen 30 per cent and per capita GNP fallen by 4 per cent since 1970 . |
| 6 | Advertisers also point out the hypocrisy of barring sponsored programmes when sports coverage is awash with branding . |
| 7 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
| 8 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |