Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet essentially Whigs agreed that the hereditary succession had been broken by the Glorious Revolution and that henceforth the monarch had a Parliamentary title to the throne . |
| 2 | A little after eight o'clock the sun touches the altar rock , the signal for the burial to begin . |
| 3 | But second , enough of an overwhelming victory for the incumbent leader to rule out what has always been the more credible avenue through which change might occur : her own apprehension , reaching her by whatever means , that perhaps the time has come to quit — before the election rather than after it . |
| 4 | At eleven o'clock the teams stopped working . |
| 5 | Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations . |
| 6 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 7 | And I 'm going well I 've I just say I 've had erm three operations on my toe and I too painful so the doctor said advised me to only do games if I feel okay . |
| 8 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 9 | And it does n't become any easier once a player obtains his Card . |
| 10 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 11 | But this is a fine company , and with the shares already down by half from their peak last year is this really the time to sell ? |
| 12 | The editor of the left-wing magazine Towards 2000 went into hiding on April 12 following a police raid in his absence on his office and residence , and the magazine 's publishers , Hürriyet , announced they would cease publishing the magazine for fear of violating the new rules on censorship . |
| 13 | It was so different even the weir had been removed which means the river at this point is some three feet shallower than when I last fished it . |
| 14 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 15 | ‘ Or is that just an Eldar wearing a human mask ? ’ she asked . |
| 16 | Pittston has drafted in ‘ scab ’ labour to get the coal out , but the roads in these mountains are narrow and winding so the strikers drive their vehicles ahead of the coal trucks as slowly as possible . |
| 17 | These included : ( i ) extension of coverage to octopus , cuttlefish , primary cocoa products and essential oils ; ( ii ) lowering of dependency thresholds ( that is , the importance of an ACP country 's exports of a relevant product as a proportion of its total exports ) from 6 per cent to 5 per cent and from 1.5 per cent to 1 per cent in the case of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) ; ( iii ) abolition of the principle of repayment of interest-free loans granted under Stabex when export earnings permitted ( under Lome III only the LDCs had been exempted ) ; ( iv ) abolition of the Lome III mechanism for correcting exchange-rate fluctuations ( often called the " tunnel " ) in favour of a system of calculations based on the ECU . |
| 18 | He need not undergo terrorist treatment in the swimming bath , not get up at six o'clock every morning to feed old Bones . |
| 19 | By six o'clock the water had n't arrived and Haverford , looking at their despondent faces , said , ‘ It 's like a death in the family . ’ |
| 20 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 21 | The dour , stalwart Dwarf troops were quite unlike any the Elves had faced before . |
| 22 | At 10 AM the King held a Conference at Buckingham Palace at which the Prime Minister , Baldwin and Samuel were present . |
| 23 | We must be satisfied that the insured person is legally liable and not just morally liable , i.e. he may feel he is responsible for some damage but unless he has been negligent then no liability exists . |
| 24 | If the coils are lossless then the voltage induced in coil 1 must balance the , applied voltage , yielding |
| 25 | Er yes , the door opener in fact was was put on wrongly erm by unfortunately P C and er as the pressure started to exert outwards erm it then found that there was no resistance and consequently all the pressure was being put outwards er and as such then the machine started to make a noise erm which then we had to switch it off , turn it round , back on again and eventually gained access . |
| 26 | From 25:10 onwards the description moves from the inside to the outside : first the furnishings , the ark , table and lampstand ( 25:20–40 ) , then the tent-covering ( 26:1–37 ) , then beyond it to the altar and the court ( 27:1–19 ) . |
| 27 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 28 | Did you know , by the way , that statistically a woman tries out a new partner once in every two thousand copulations ? |
| 29 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
| 30 | It is not surprising , therefore , that hardly a day goes by without someone asking me to recommend ‘ a single volume with good colour photos of insignia and uniforms , that I can use as a standard reference on Special Forces ’ . |