Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackman triumphed 9–2 4–9 6–9 9–2 to reach her first world tour final since losing in the Australian Open to Susan Devoy last August . |
| 2 | And it was to take only one Scottish burning to achieve what some 275 burnings did in England : not only fear , but a Protestant backlash , ‘ a new fervency amongst the whole people ; yea , even in the town of St Andrews began the people plainly to damn such unjust cruelty ’ . |
| 3 | At its peak in 1792 the LCS had around 800 active members with a further 5,000 attending its divisional meetings from time to time . |
| 4 | Its difference from simple empirical generalization is that whereas this former extends its local names to a variety of historical situations to which they may be only partly appropriate , this latter , theoreticist tendency extends its presumptive interpretations and categories in what is always , essentially , a search for illustrative instances . |
| 5 | The top five retained their relative positions , but the top three increased their distance from the pack — Digital Equipment Corp was the only top company to experience a decrease in revenues , which slid from $1bn to $800m . |
| 6 | The 17 year old Yugoslav retained her French Open title and her world No 1 ranking . |
| 7 | Mrs Woodie felt half inclined to lend her some , so as to have more to sort out and put away . |
| 8 | ‘ I was half inclined to believe you last night until I received these this morning , ’ he said , and the hidden violence in his voice made her go cold . |
| 9 | More than 2 million watched their last big show up at Newcastle ; no goals , but what a classic . |
| 10 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 11 | Do not the figures reveal that those independent oil analysts who , in the early and middle 1980s , forecast a substantial depletion of United Kingdom resources in the early 1990s got it wrong ? |
| 12 | And yet there you stand , gloating , without even the self-command necessary to remove your outer clothes and leave the shopping basket behind before rushing in here . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd be real surprised to see them all sat round the table looking so happy . |
| 14 | The latter survey , while a substantial one , possibly came too soon after the reforms of the early 1980s to detect their full impact . |
| 15 | ‘ And is that supposed to make everything better ? |
| 16 | As the Tory faithful trumpeted their green credibility in the Winter Gardens , Ann Taylor , the Labour environment spokeswoman , was on Blackpool beach amusing photographers and terrifying holidaymakers by paddling in the shallows in a white laboratory coat and protective wellingtons . |
| 17 | Like all biomorphs , each of these three has its own genetic formula , which determines its unique position in nine-dimensional genetic space . |
| 18 | By November 1934 the conciliatory attitude of the Communist International had caused the Labour and Socialist International to modify its earlier warning against entering into United Front agreements with national Communist Parties . |
| 19 | This would serve the general welfare by facilitating the development of large-scale business enterprises , which if left alone to pursue their own interests would also further the interests of society . |
| 20 | In peace-time Achilles and his cronies come down to his level of prose abuse and mockery ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ; II.iii ; III.iii ; V.i. ) , but when the fighting restarts Thersites takes no part in it , and is left alone to direct his poisoned breath straight at us . |
| 21 | When we make something like these ten steps our daily discipline , we are aiming for it to be a vehicle through which we meet God and learn to love him and listen to him and abide in him . |
| 22 | Come on , back to bed and let these two find their own way home . ’ |
| 23 | These two pioneered their own forms of politics ; and this was indeed creating a revolution in a way that Nehru and Jinnah , despite their involvement in mass politics , did not attain . |
| 24 | Er then he , there 's only three houses in the road that he lived in , , the next one along the road came up for auction and he sold his station and moved up to that and he said he 's just bought the one at the end of the road now which is er seven hundred and fifty thousand he paid for it , a hundred and fifty thousand to have it interior decorated . |
| 25 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | Here , I brought some American magazines — trash , but gorgeous — and some blissful eau-de-Cologne to bathe your pallid brow and drown out the Dettol — some grapes — corny , I know , but if you turn your nose up at them , I 'll eat them , in fact I probably will anyway . |
| 27 | Anfield manager Graeme Souness must obtain Foreign Office clearance before he can draft in the £600,000 Scandinavian international to replace his latest casualty . |
| 28 | The key to the repressive discipline advocated in this manual of behaviour is that it is to be the means by which man is liberated from all that thwarts his true nature , just as the dancer can only use his body expressively if he trains his muscles : " those move easiest who have learnt to dance " . |
| 29 | Perhaps all that makes it easier to understand why Orwell was so anxious that Waugh should read his books : anxious enough to send him copies , though to a stranger . |
| 30 | All this had its inevitable effect on relations between Muslims and Christians in Lebanon . |