Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How medieval that sounds in your mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ To the 40,000 or so employees , the further 50,000 employed by their distributors , and some tens of thousands more employed by their suppliers I would say that I am delighted that Rover is part of British Aerospace . ’ |
| 3 | The Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt had sent a crisp 10s note for her train fare and expenses , and that sum would adequately cover those . |
| 4 | Social services are standing by their decision to pay for the 14-year old to stay at his grandparents ' villa , but refused to talk about the inquiry . |
| 5 | The reporter shook her head , wishing she had some cotton-wool to put in her ears . |
| 6 | Of course this all depends on your opinions or your taste , factors which play a large part in religious observance . |
| 7 | This all go to our house ? |
| 8 | Does this all come from your long training in yoga ? |
| 9 | If we can get a few more accepted under their responsibility so be it . |
| 10 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
| 11 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 12 | Of these , 1,558 were taken for Yorkshire , while another 144 came in his forty test appearances . |
| 13 | Of the remaining thirty-seven falling within its wide catchment area , only one ( 3 per cent ) is mentioned in a national newspaper . |
| 14 | When a woman in her early thirties moved into her council flat she was still working , so she bought a fitted carpet and a freezer . |
| 15 | Does he reject the comments that we have heard from the Opposition which have much more to do with their courting votes than with human rights ? |
| 16 | Nor , to judge from their efforts , do I see that I have much more to expect from my own people . |
| 17 | Of the remaining seventeen falling within its catchment area , only three ( i.e. 18 per cent of the local cases ) are mentioned in a national newspaper . |
| 18 | Philosophically , we can not provide any absolute epistemological underpinning for our knowledge endeavours ; and , sociologically , higher education and its manifold forms of thought have lost any pretensions to occupying an independent position in relation to the modern state . |
| 19 | Thus as the recession of the early 1980s drew to its close ‘ condition of track ’ speed restrictions of some severity were imposed : for example stretches of 35 to 50mph between Selby and Hull on the straightest railway in Britain . |
| 20 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 21 | ‘ Alter all , he had three koban to gain by his success . |
| 22 | These three differ from their predecessors by incorporating a 32Kb instruction cache , four times bigger than previous models . |
| 23 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |
| 24 | A story of local democracy and participatory initiative dating from the reforms of the later 1880s came to its sad close . |
| 25 | She realised that it had been deliberately left open to add to her humiliation . |
| 26 | His growing disillusion with Mosley in the later 1930s led to his resignation from the movement and the collapse of his revolutionary faith . |
| 27 | ‘ You really do n't know anything about me , do you , despite all that wallowing in my mind ? |
| 28 | All that remains of his seductiveness are the historical traces of a bad lot . |
| 29 | Goldman worked on the script from October 1971 to April 1972 , submitting three drafts , but all that remains of his contribution to the film is the last line , ‘ Hey , you bastards . |
| 30 | The spider 's web is clearly a pernicious weapon ; like the network of branches out of which it grows , it frames and structures all that falls within its domain . |