Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the larger aircraft were transferred to the parking area at Amman airport , for a long time the only point from which Iraq could be entered from abroad , as foreign airlines were hesitant about using traditional air corridors which ran close to a war zone . |
| 2 | If you are hesitant about pruning flowered wood hard , some of the more vigorous varieties will reflect your hesitancy by sending out new growth from half way along old stems . |
| 3 | Big , roomy houses just right for expanding middle-class families . |
| 4 | This form of licence is granted to an hotel structurally adapted and bona fide used for providing main meals at mid-day or in the evening , or both , to persons frequenting the premises , and does not contain a bar counter . |
| 5 | How , then , can one be definite about recommending chemical preparations ? |
| 6 | To date , manufacturers and retailers have done very little about organising safe disposal of fridges and air conditioning systems at the end of their useful lives . |
| 7 | He seems in no hurry to start a family of his own and is shy about discussing beautiful Kristy , who he has been linked with romantically . |
| 8 | First , the manager himself may feel somewhat shy about creating formal coaching sessions . |
| 9 | However , the Gould-Jacobs reaction is unsuitable for producing 1-cyclopropyl-quinolonecarboxylic acids or 1-cyclopropyl-azaquinolonecarboxylic acids of the ciprofloxacin type because it is not possible to alkylate 1-unsubstituted quinolones or azaquinolonecarboxylates with cyclopropyl halides . |
| 10 | In addition , some studies used inbred lines of Drosophila , which are liable to give artefactual positive correlations between fitness components , and are therefore unsuitable for testing evolutionary theories of ageing . |
| 11 | His remarks are devastating for emerging British riders striving to follow the golden trail blazed by legends like Colonel Harry Llewellyn who won Britain 's first equestrian gold with ‘ Foxhunter ’ at Helsinki in l952 . |
| 12 | So if a man who has had an adolescent incestuous relationship with his mother now feels guilty about having close relationships with women , he is told that there is nothing wrong in loving women . |
| 13 | The time limit for enforcing an expert 's decision is the same as that for enforcing other contracts , six years if the contract to refer to the expert is under hand , twelve in the unlikely case of its being under seal : s5 and s8 of the Limitation Act 1980 . |
| 14 | Devolution of responsibility from central government to regional and district health authorities may be a good thing , but when this includes the collection and use of important NHS data it hampers monitoring of national programmes like that for modernising mental health care . |
| 15 | That after enduring obvious trauma I 'd leave you to go home alone ? |
| 16 | He was still under the shadow of a more famous British broadcaster in Berlin , Norman Baillie-Stewart , an officer of the Seaforth Highlanders who had been court-martialled and sent to prison for five years in 1933 for selling military secrets to Germany . |
| 17 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 18 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 19 | I 'm starting to write about other things , but I 'm being careful about writing political things 'cos it 's really easy to sound preachy or too self-righteous in a song . |
| 20 | Erm , but I think , I mean , do n't we have to be a bit careful about supporting other organizations in other towns ? |
| 21 | Congress should be asked to continue economic and military aid with the objective of achieving a well-trained , efficient army of 65,000 men , including air detachments adequate for maintaining political order inside South Korea , a coastguard of 4,000 men , and a police force of 35,000 possessing small arms and ammunition . |
| 22 | Painting is popular for creating simple images because the mouse is used like a brush to colour areas and to create the effect of texture , like an impressionist painting , for instance . |
| 23 | [ See p. 36870 for changing Thai attitude towards the KNU . ] |
| 24 | The clause was criticized by some as giving implicit authority to the army to stage further coups should they be deemed necessary . |
| 25 | By any standard the industry was not extensive : Berkshire was bracketed with Herefordshire at the bottom of a list of clothiers fined at Blackwell Hall in 1561 — 2 for marketing substandard cloth , with just one offender , a Reading man ; unless Berkshire workmanship in general was above average , production was clearly small in volume . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course this is a truly shocking affair , ’ Wheeler continued in a tone proper for instructing young ordinands in the correct way to deal with the conventional tragedies of life . |
| 27 | People are rarely castigated in public for selling individual plots because such complaints would be counterproductive . |
| 28 | Farmer John Parker was found unconscious , while his wife Margaret and Lisa had collapsed , sick and delirious after inhaling toxic carbon monoxide from a coal fired heating boiler . |
| 29 | We had met at parties previously , but had carefully avoided one another after exchanging polite hallos . |
| 30 | She presented many Phosphorus symptoms including the peculiar of desiring cold milk which she remembered craving during her childhood asthma . |