Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven portfolios were constructed , each consisting of 40 randomly selected securities . |
| 2 | The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m . |
| 3 | ( This led to some very difficult unscrambling more recently when the Commission was dissolved . ) |
| 4 | He notes that , although nearby supernovae are somewhat rare , an event such as this occurring in 4 BC would make a lot of statistical sense . |
| 5 | Your first Equity card will be a provisional one ; to become a full member you need to have worked for at least 30 weeks , not necessarily consecutively , Nevertheless , it 's only realistic to assume that you may face longish periods of unemployment and to be prepared to deal with this constructively . |
| 6 | This started at 2.30 pm , lasted for an hour and was under the direction of Mr. Ernest Russ , our Headmaster . |
| 7 | This applies in different yet parallel ways to both Afro-Caribbean and Asian populations , whose criminality violates the law — the supreme achievement of British civilization . |
| 8 | I suppose the truth was , in those days anyway , I just plain liked it " Seems funny to think of that now . |
| 9 | Portsmouth then had a good spell , they forced two successive corners but the half ended with United so almost scoring . |
| 10 | Secondly , I think few realized in 1961 just how sizeable the radio audience had become or how rapidly it would expand . |
| 11 | The traditional supreme body within the bureaucracy , the State Council , was expanded to form an upper chamber half of whose members were appointed by the Tsar and half elected from such relatively privileged institutions as the Holy Synod , provincial assemblies of the nobility , and zemstvos . |
| 12 | This makes for some pretty useful functionality — you can print a red ‘ Top Secret ’ at an angle over the corner of a document , if that 's your bag . |
| 13 | A rectangle of cardboard hung on the door announcing that the shop was due to open at nine o'clock . |
| 14 | Harold Wilson 's ‘ white heat ’ talk of 1963 seemed in 1979 extraordinarily dated . |
| 15 | To make the machine easy to handle for those perhaps unused to petrol-engined tools , McCulloch has incorporated several useful features . |
| 16 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 17 | Please find enclosed an application , for the use of a classroom in C. E. School for a Parish Council Meeting on Thursday 26th September 1991 starting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 18 | But she had been lucky once , it was too much to hope for another equally timely arrival . |
| 19 | It is not possible to focus upon both simultaneously . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the realisation of this knowledge has been difficult or impractical owing to several well known factors including ‘ closed ’ systems , immature software standards , and high development or re-development costs . |
| 21 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |
| 22 | These 21 consist of those most senior according to date of appointment . |
| 23 | The developments which followed are too recent and perhaps too elaborate to belong in this essentially historical account of the discovery of drugs . |
| 24 | Richard Baxter said he was glad to part with all so that he had nothing left to be confiscated and that he could carry on preaching . |
| 25 | We were supposed to start at six o'clock . |
| 26 | The ceremony was supposed to start at 2 pm on the 29th : the Gulf on whose beach the men found themselves had been named San Miguel because of the happy coincidence of the feast day . |
| 27 | Concern about that is likely to spread beyond those immediately affected by the revelations about Robert Maxwell 's actions at Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 28 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 29 | The different categories of traveller are very hard to assess at all precisely . |
| 30 | Over the last few miles to your overnight spot it 's often hard to think of much else except getting a hot meal and a drink — quickly . |