Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with an excellent debut album , ‘ A Sonic Holiday ’ ( due for UK release soon ) , a sense of humour , a glam image and just a trace of youthful cockiness , this is a band to watch . |
| 2 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |
| 3 | At an effective level , the one at which I made it possible for Jean-Claude to work uninterruptedly , I felt both the benefits of a com-panionable relationship with someone of whom I was , in many ways , admiring , and a sense of my own worth : I was useful to him . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd better know — unofficially — that an alert for Tweed has now gone out secretly to our counter-espionage friends and certain police chiefs in Europe . |
| 5 | The Department of Transport announced last month that low volume production cars will be exempt from the EC Type Approval provisions , and once the appropriate legislation is in place in this country , the way will be clear for Caterham to produce fully built cars . |
| 6 | It was lucky for some as Dunwoody squeezed home a twenty to one winner . |
| 7 | An angry Fox said : ‘ I am not interested in those players and I am not interested in Fairbank going anywhere . |
| 8 | Another from Blackburn contained twice as much : 7,750 ug/litre lead or 155 times the EC limit and 77 times the action level . |
| 9 | President Hrawi held talks with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus on Oct. 14 [ see p. 39117 for September meeting also in Syria ] . |
| 10 | PR IS still about telling the truth , maintains Alan Burnside , of Alan Burnside Communications , Holywood , and he is adamant that without credibility as a truthful source of information , it is impossible for PR to operate successfully over time . |
| 11 | It was impossible for Sally-Anne to obey even if she had wished to . |
| 12 | Senior sources say it is appropriate for Whitbread to move away from being a family-dominated group , saddled with an arcane share structure , in 1992 , its 250th anniversary . |
| 13 | My authority receives half as much in grant as an authority such as Manchester to provide exactly the same level of teaching service . |
| 14 | Providing oral substitutes such as Methadone perpetuates rather than reduces the addictive disease and all its attendant risks . |
| 15 | The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment . |
| 16 | Rural counties such as Gwynedd suffer particularly since they often have very low density settlements , rugged terrain and relatively poor roads . |
| 17 | Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case . |
| 18 | The source of rising neo-fascism , which in countries such as France has now deeply infected the political mainstream , is the contradiction that has opened up in Europe between democratic aspirations and its economic policy . |
| 19 | Jordan , Egypt and Turkey had earned substantial revenues from workers ' remittances and trade with Iraq and Kuwait ; some middle-income countries such as India relied heavily on oil imports from Iraq and also benefited from sizeable remittance flows ; and for some low-income countries , including Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh and the Philippines , the loss of remittances and the rising cost of oil imports were expected to slow growth rates to an average of around 1.5 per cent by 1991 and add some $3,000 million to annual Third-World debt interest payments . |
| 20 | Lakes and rivers in heavily farmed counties such as Cavan have long suffered from irresponsible dumping by farmers . |
| 21 | Smaller ports such as Charlestown had all but disappeared but ports such as Methil 3m tons , Leith 2m tons , Burntisland 1.5m tons , Grangemouth 1.8m tons and Granton 0.8m tons had steadily increased . |
| 22 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 23 | The Odyssey or the Recherche is only , in a certain way , an amplification ( in the rhetorical sense ) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer ’ ( 1980 : 30 ) . |
| 24 | It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament . |
| 25 | Unlike America , much of Europe has already accepted the notion that any facility or service capable of generating cash-flow and profit is capable of being privatised . |
| 26 | Great Aycliffe on 20 are second with Darlington following closely on 17 . |
| 27 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 28 | On the northern fringe of the wood-pasture belt fewer than a quarter of the people of Blofield , East Flegg and Walsham hundreds in Norfolk had less than £2 , almost as many having £5 — £9 . |
| 29 | Parkinson agreed , but considered it disloyal of Merryfield to say so in front of outsiders . |
| 30 | I ca n't tell that with McDunn sitting there ; it would be like telling my father . |