Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressed in a sea-blue gown with matching head-dress , each studded with small mother-of-pearls , she looked so beautiful ! |
| 2 | A prospective purchaser would presumably be hesitant to proceed in such circumstances without adequate insurance protection . |
| 3 | It sold InfoNow units at $60,000 per unit , each consisting of 20,000 shares of common stock and 20,000 Class C warrants , each of the latter entitling the holder to buy one share of common at $6 by December 30 1997 . |
| 4 | The animal kingdom was divided into five ( not four ) types , each consisting of five classes . |
| 5 | Directions has sixty units , each consisting of two pages . |
| 6 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |
| 7 | The Supreme Soviet was bicameral , consisting of the Council of the Union and the Council of the Nationalities , each consisting of 750 deputies elected for five years . |
| 8 | It was decided to have 250 sets , each consisting of four postcards , printed . |
| 9 | Three mental tests were developed , each consisting of 20 questions . |
| 10 | This poem is in two equal stanzas , each consisting of seven lines . |
| 11 | The sentence has 28 characters in it , so let us assume that the monkey has a series of discrete " tries ' , each consisting of 28 bashes at the keyboard . |
| 12 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 13 | I think it unnecessary to go through those cases , or to examine the particular grounds on which each of them was decided . |
| 14 | But they have been infected by the dreaded Lousepedoodle , that flies in ever-decreasing circles through the Gunpat of the Cludge — a deadly virus — dear me , yes ! — isolated by the purple Avvago and maturing in the grey-green forests of the Okey Pokey . |
| 15 | A telephone call received by the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo on Sept. 20 allegedly from the Medellín cartel had confirmed the kidnappings and included a demand that the government offer the cartel the same " political treatment " as that given to left-wing guerrillas in past peace agreements [ see below ] . |
| 16 | With each equation the average rank given to correct words is better than that given to incorrect words . |
| 17 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 18 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 19 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 20 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 21 | And wh how did that compare with other lads of your age ? |
| 22 | It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them . |
| 23 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 24 | In Fig. 14.1 , with interest rate r 1 , it will be profitable to invest in all projects up to I 1 , with I 1 itself breaking even . |
| 25 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 26 | His eyes scanned the wounded propped against half-demolished walls , lying amidst smashed furniture , or sprawling on the floor , and those who lay with faces covered . |
| 27 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 28 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 29 | Mrs Brown lived in Morrell House , Burton Stone Lane , York , but before that lived for 70 years in New Earswick . |
| 30 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |