Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven or eight hours later the 20-page script would be finished and the Teacher 's depleted . |
| 2 | In inflationary times almost every ageing person experiences some anxiety about how their finances will hold out , leading to severe economies over food , fuel , and replacement of clothing and household goods . |
| 3 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 4 | The hotel is well placed for those keen on sightseeing — with the Via Veneto and the famed Spanish Steps both an easy walk away . |
| 5 | EIGHT months ago the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed a happy media parable of modern Britain . |
| 6 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 7 | Thirty-six hours later the Big Man himself arrived by Air Malai DC-10 . |
| 8 | The retired management consultant , of Kingsmead Avenue , Worcester Park , Surrey , thanked the jury for its verdicts , reached after just 30 minutes following a three-day trial at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 9 | The structure of surveying education has progressed through a number of fundamental changes since the granting of a Royal Charter to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors over a hundred years ago . |
| 10 | At some frequencies even the best optical fibre available will absorb or scatter light , whereas at other frequencies they will pass light with almost no attenuation or scattering . |
| 11 | Forty minutes later the small plane , now over its weight limit , due to the extra passengers , clawed its way into the sky , its two , turbo-charged , 220 horsepower engines screaming at full power , and headed northwards at eleven thousand feet towards Canada and its overnight destination of Goose Bay , Labrador . |
| 12 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 13 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 14 | ‘ A few minutes ago an old man came to my office . |
| 15 | A few minutes later a second girl ran into the office . |
| 16 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 17 | Puzzled , the girl went off , and a few minutes later a grey haired woman in black entered the cubicle . |
| 18 | A few minutes later the elderly owner of ‘ Primrose Cottage ’ was on the phone . |
| 19 | He goes on to remark that a few minutes later the same antlers could be in use with the animals full weight behind them as they slash and batter those of an opposing stag . |
| 20 | Yet the poor spend a much higher proportion of their income — in some cases even a larger absolute amount — on these goods than do the rich . |
| 21 | Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | In some cases even the national interest would have to be considered . |
| 23 | Confusion is not always avoided : the two wheels here are probably near and far wheels of a two-wheeled chariot , but in some cases rather the two near wheels of a four-wheeled cart . |
| 24 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 25 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 26 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 27 | Only a few hours earlier an unexpected Meeting Notice had been issued , the agenda being simply ‘ To consider the conduct of Major H. R. Maxim ’ . |
| 28 | I would remind Mr Bruce that in Scottish schools today the general bias is humanistic and it is the Christian parents who are being denied their rights . |
| 29 | In some computers both a short and a long floating-point format and instruction set are provided , so that the programmer can trade precision against storage space . |
| 30 | A few months later the same man , with his daughter , met Russell at a petrol station . |