Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The best coaches will recognise this and set to work . |
| 32 | It is wise to plan for this and to keep in mind the possibility of building up to having video installed in a percentage of the classrooms . |
| 33 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 34 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 35 | ‘ You have to strike a happy medium between looking like royalty and looking like a housewife , ’ a helpful Mrs Tony Newton , wife of the Leader of the Commons explained after she and four Cabinet Minsters ' wives for being lip-glossed and back-combed into shape by the Mail on Sunday . |
| 36 | The strange brooding power and expectation in some of Moore 's statues is this emotion , carved and chiselled into stone . |
| 37 | When she arrived in Paris in May 1914 , she was in a dangerous frame of mind , footloose , resentful and spoiling for adventure . |
| 38 | ‘ The speed with which some of the incidents flared up suggests , in fact , that the kids were not sitting indoors , but that they were already out there on the streets — often bored , resentful and waiting for trouble ’ ( ibid.:46 ) . |
| 39 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 40 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 41 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 42 | All the fittings must be waterproof and made for outdoors , and the supply should be connected by a qualified electrician . |
| 43 | A crackle and sparkle of steel , spitting light and vanishing into shadow , but to reappear by spasmodic flashes thereafter , moving up towards him . |
| 44 | In my view , in very simple terms , it 's a fight between Right and Left ; right-wing politics tend to be masculine and punitive by nature , and arguably anti-women ; left-wing politics on the other hand , tend to be more feminine and caring in essence , and pro-people . |
| 45 | I shall tear out your soul , and carry it away to the Prison of Hostages , and then perhaps the Conablaiche will come to tear out your heart , for there is nothing my Master likes so well as a warm heart , a Mortal heart , still beating , fresh and running with blood and juices … |
| 46 | It is usually sliced , fried and eaten for breakfast . |
| 47 | Her own petit friture was a plateful of tiny fish , crisply fried and sprinkled with garlic , and they both opted for guinea fowl casseroled in red wine , and so tender it almost fell off the bone , with sautéd potatoes and cabbage cooked in butter , as their main course . |
| 48 | Catchy , happy , shiny , funny and packed with potassium and vitamins . |
| 49 | There was a huge plate of mince pies , golden brown and dusted with sugar , a tall jug of milk , a pink ham , and slices of bread thickly spread with the lovely , pale , sweaty butter Carrie had seen in the dairy . |
| 50 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 51 | The curtain parted , clicking , and now he saw her hair all coarse and fraying like rope coming undone and her breasts pushing against an old green cardigan , and he knew who she was . |
| 52 | In the wet , wild June the grass was tall and lush , and the heather on the hills stood high and bristling like wire . |
| 53 | The disk is round , often indented interradially , high and covered with skin with small scattered spines attached to small plates within the skin ; diameter up to 30 mm . |
| 54 | To make sure of early germination , the trays will have to be placed in a slightly heated propagating case — but taken out as soon as the seedlings are about an inch high and kept in warmth and good light . |
| 55 | The fact that an infant child can complete correctly such sums as 9 + 3 = 12 and work through page upon page of identical problems is no indication that that child 's understanding of mathematics ( or number ) is being deepened . |
| 56 | A package of reforms to the criminal code , designed to improve Turkey 's human rights record , was approved by the Grand National Assembly early on April 12 and signed into law by President Turgut Özal a few hours later . |
| 57 | Specimens were fixed in half-strength Karnovsky fixative , postfixed in osmium tetroxide , embedded in Araldite , thin sectioned and stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate in the usual way . |
| 58 | I am nine and-a-half years old and sit in front of the television in England with my brother , watching characters like Meg and Sandy argue in the Cross roads motel , while fat Benny , the tele West Country moron in woolly hat , eats lots of pies . |
| 59 | He was about forty three years old and living at home and his mother was like well wrap up warm now |
| 60 | Joanne Graham is nine years old and comes from County Durham . |