Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaining territory by right of conquest was an entirely acceptable way to expand an empire , but it remained to be seen if anyone had worked out any better methods than those of the Spanish for ruling the new subjects acquired in that way . |
| 2 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 3 | A computer generated image of the molecule ( S ) -N N-di-methyl-2(1-phenylethyl benzamido ) malonamide used for exploring the structural constraints in the folding of proteins . |
| 4 | John is grateful for inheriting a full head of hair . |
| 5 | Ramsey was abnormally shy about meeting the upper class and Eden 's voice was the caricature of an upper class voice . |
| 6 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 7 | Returning from exile to head the newly formed Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , Prestes was imprisoned for nine years in 1935 for leading an unsuccessful uprising against the dictator Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-45 ) and on his release was elected to the Senate with the highest personal vote of any candidate . |
| 8 | It would be no bad thing if a more subdued housing market made Britons less obsessive about investing every last penny in their homes in the quest for easy returns . |
| 9 | Mynott was jailed for life in 1980 for murdering a 54-year-old man near his home in Hemel Hempstead , Herts . |
| 10 | In truth she now felt guilty for leaving the shuddering Elizabeth alone in the farmhouse . |
| 11 | She was acutely aware of the presence of Petion and the Marines around her , and felt somewhat guilty about using the advanced technology . |
| 12 | Yes and I had a lot of er experience with with training dogs and all that for hunting the old foxes and all that . |
| 13 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 14 | People do n't get fined anything like that for mugging an old lady . ’ |
| 15 | Only one prisoner is known to have escaped unaided in 1875 after scaling the 20 ft boundary wall . |
| 16 | Following last year 's Masters , I received a letter from a reader who suggested that ‘ no-one in Britain before had been so generally popular through winning a sporting trophy than Woosnam ’ . |
| 17 | In the absence of this ‘ classical ’ formation , we are looking for tendencies and trends much less sharply and universally defined , but no less definitive for tracing the particular mutation of the novelistic effected by television . |
| 18 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 19 | It 's terribly difficult trying to get from them any acknowledgements that there could be something wrong about making a complimentary remark to a young woman . |
| 20 | Neither , however , are adequate for generating a full picture of elders , and more work is needed to achieve this . |
| 21 | Recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science has emphasized that experimental results are rarely adequate for making a definitive choice between competing theories . |
| 22 | Fibre blends can improve carpet performance ; a mixture of 80% wool and 20% nylon is particularly popular for providing a good combination of warmth , resilience , wear , low flammability and resistance to soiling . |
| 23 | Wood chip papers are the most popular for giving a light ‘ oatmealy ’ texture for a very cheap price . |
| 24 | The skirt was lovely , there was no doubt of that , swishing down rustling folds to the deep ruffle at the hem , but she was doubtful about managing the small train , even after an hour of practice in front of Aunt Emily . |
| 25 | He broke off as if doubtful about betraying the remaining shreds of uncertainty . |
| 26 | She told a conference organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh that such a conclusion would not win universal acclaim and would be seen by some as lowering the moral tone of the country . |
| 27 | It is viewed by some as having a prime role as a respite for carers , others additionally see their role as assisting in the more practical needs such as baths , chiropody , medication etc . |
| 28 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 29 | It does this through encouraging a favourable internal climate of opinion in which all employees can feel involved with , and understand , the firm 's affairs . |
| 30 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |