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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | With each equation the average rank given to correct words is better than that given to incorrect words . |
| 6 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 7 | And wh how did that compare with other lads of your age ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | First , where judgment was in a sum of money , it was possible to proceed against individual items of the debtor 's property . |
| 12 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 13 | It should be possible to search for specified strings of text and modify these either individually or collectively . |
| 14 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 15 | The principles of exercise for coronary patients is no different from that applied to normal individuals trying to get fit . |
| 16 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 17 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 18 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 19 | For many years a mixture of alumina and glass was used because the glass gave a good visual approximation to a natural tooth while the alumina was sufficiently strong to cope with biting loads . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , they should be possible to obtain from elderly patients undergoing orchidectomy in the course of treatment for prostatic cancer , or from young men undergoing infertility investigations . |
| 21 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 22 | Mr. Moss , for the applicants , went through all the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers . |
| 23 | He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question . |
| 24 | But his eye is too keen and his feel for the different histories of these nations too strong to slip into one-answer explanations . |
| 25 | Here , it is assumed that the severity of any language problem is indicated by the extent to which a child 's language differs from that found among other children of a similar age . |
| 26 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 27 | The extent of the reported inhibition is comparable with that found in other studies using similar amounts of calcium carbonate or calcium lactate . |
| 28 | But here it reveals a concept of women very close to that found in dominant discourses of femininity . |
| 29 | Again , such schemes seem to be far too broad to relate to detailed aspects of linguistic structure . |
| 30 | This definition is not too dissimilar to that relating to registered designs . |