Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember hardly anybody 's names that I served with in the Signal section in eh in Colchester , ca n't even remember the officer 's name , the if people left somewhere erm , south of Colchester in Essex well it was quite quite and eh , he , we use to go out there and play , play a village team football , you know and have a , have a right have a right old do in the evenings . |
| 2 | Exports of natural gas to the US by pipeline and LNG exports particularly to Japan , are likely to increase to some 30 MTOE by the year 2000 , and even higher levels of export , particularly to the US , are quite possible . |
| 3 | Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett . |
| 4 | Four of Hills ' top six come from the BBC but Eldorado is well down the field at 50-1 . |
| 5 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 6 | Fires associated with cultivation volatilize 300–700kg nitrogen per ha from vegetation and surface-litter and a further 500–2000 disappear from the surface soils in the next year or two . |
| 7 | The first lesson in microprocessor technology is available on shareware , another 17 appear in the registered version . |
| 8 | Small tables , covered with ornaments and books , and an antique armchair and matching footstool in green velvet and another in light brown all add to the charm of the room . |
| 9 | It 's early days yet … but it seems this fishy find from the outer Hebrides could bring fresh hope and health to many thousands of people . |
| 10 | Without this single find in a remote country we should only have doubtful knowledge , from some remarks in Herodotus , of archaic decorative metal-work on this scale . |
| 11 | Around 50,000 people are engaged directly in farming and a further 140,000 work in the support and service sectors of Scottish agriculture . |
| 12 | In the latter , three teams play each other in a mini-league ( showing detailed player statistics ) and the top two go onto the next round ( and next beach ! ) with a better third team . |
| 13 | ‘ Thou shalt believe ’ — the most absurd philosophical construct in the whole of human history . |
| 14 | The garment leaves the front of the body bare , and clings tightly to the parts it does cover , marked only by the hems and a tiny free hang below the elbows . |
| 15 | Probes were resuspended at 10 5 cpm/µl in a hybridisation mixture containing 0.8 M NaCl , 30% formamide , 10% dextran sulphate , 0.4 µg/ ml tRNA , 0.02% BSA , polyvinlypyrrolidone , Ficoll , 0.01% pyrophosphate , 5 mM EDTA , 50 mM TRIS . |
| 16 | Even when the swing is slightly out of tune , the really good golfer has such good feel for the ball and where it ought to go that he can produce a respectable shot most of the time . |
| 17 | About 1 10 6 phage from a rat cDNA library in λgt10 were screened with a human retinoblastoma cDNA probe ( 1 ) . |
| 18 | Chronic inflammatory infiltrate in the lamina proporia was scored as 0 , 1 , or 2 ; lamina propria polymorph infiltrate as 0 , 1 , 2 , or 3 ; intraepithelial polymorph infiltrate as 0 , 1 , 2 , or 3 ; and mucosal erosions as 0 , 1 , or 2 . |
| 19 | Foulds hit an early 60 break in the fourth but Doherty 's reply was immediate when he knocked in a 55 clearance to move into a two frame lead at the interval . |
| 20 | Altogether between 1250 and 1435 over sixteen thousand excommunicates were notified to chancery , and of these almost three thousand occur in the decade 1275–84 and another two thousand in the remaining years of the century . |
| 21 | One of them used to walk round with me up at the market pointing out his bullocks : ‘ These four belong to the policeman ; these four I bought off the publican ; these belong to the baker . ’ |
| 22 | Big barbel though , have a distinct preference for swims that combine three factors : a fairly slack piece of water adjacent to a fast run , and especially where these two preside over a dense weedbed or some other kind of refuge such as a hole , steep ledge or sunken tree . |
| 23 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 24 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 25 | The components provide for automatic on-line retry as a way to achieve high system availability , AT&T says , adding that software fault tolerance can be provided in an application whether or not the underlying hardware or operating system is fault-tolerant . |
| 26 | We all three sit in the warm front room , watching each other . |
| 27 | All three remain with the vehicle . |
| 28 | Some scholars think that all three belong to the same basic source , or at the very least two sources . |
| 29 | Why I asked your husband if we could all three meet for a little when I got you home . ’ |
| 30 | SCOTLAND 's prospects of advancing to the quarter-finals of the main competition in the Fiji international sevens depend on the outcome of their final pool tie against Western Samoa this morning . |