Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Was change incremental or was there a sudden , sharp turning point ?
2 He is a robust pro-European and was also the key player in securing a victory for the Prime Minister at the EC summit in Edinburgh .
3 By pointing out a flower or describing a rarity he could make a walk supremely interesting and was indeed a charming companion on any expedition in the fields .
4 The house was left empty and was often a target for vandals and Sutherland was unable to sell it .
5 He has been Chairman of Tesco since 1985 and is also a non-executive Director of National Westminster Bank .
6 They are usually developed in soft material and the relief of these and related forms may be up to 50 m ( 150 ft ) high but is usually a lot less .
7 He first took to powerlifting in 1979 and is now a qualified coach and referee .
8 Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while .
9 The school was built in 1877 and is now the village hall .
10 They make perfect concentration impossible and are often the cause of breaks in work activity .
11 The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length .
12 They had all become part of campus life but the chuguo chao , the ‘ going abroad tide ’ , was probably the most noticeable and was certainly a ‘ hot topic ’ ( translated from the Chinese ‘ redian ’ ) among students .
13 Organised by season , this book marks an important step in the development of horticulture in the late 1500s and is probably the only surviving pictorial record of an important garden of that period ( est. £300–500,000 ; $520–860,000 ) .
14 The association with Lancashire lasted until 1986 and was always a happy one , for he was enormously popular with the fans and with his team-mates .
15 It is important for the organ to be properly covered by insurance , but making it available to students costs little and is again an investment for the future .
16 The film , funded by the BFI , tells the story of a white girl ( played by Saffron ) in a mixed-race relationship who becomes pregnant and is subsequently the victim of a brutal beating by National Front thugs .
17 The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing .
18 Colette joined Bank of Ireland in I.T.D. in 1971 and is presently an officer in M.S.U. , Head Office .
19 Threads of spider silk are between 0.01 and 2 microns thick , depending on the spider making them and the purpose for which they are intended — the gossamer sheets of Textrix employ some of the finest and are probably the only webs that could hold water .
20 Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn .
21 Apart from making a fortune out of hits like Be Quick or Be Dead the heavy metal band is cashing in on merchandising , which is a fancy marketing term for flogging T-shirts , posters , belts , and anything else the fans will buy .
22 Upper Framilode is by far the larger and was originally the location of the Purnells ' extensive iron and tinplate works , of which few traces remain , while Lower Framilode consists of just a few cottages , the mill and the Darell Arms .
23 Coningsby has been an R.A.F. station since 1940 and is now the base for Phantom fighters .
24 But Football League action of the kind taken against Flashman is unusual and is seldom the result of their own initiative .
25 Academic , or theoretical , discourse is not privileged but is instead a form of accounting which uses abstraction to illuminate .
26 It had declined substantially by the late thirties but was still a thriving place compared with the Baldersdale of today .
27 in trying to answer these questions and psychological analyses and the whole appropriate to the age of the and I quote we must not forget that but is also a law giver and educator Egyptian Pharaoh undeniably Egyptian in origin .
28 Reviewing the seminar , Paul Murray said : ‘ Given the change in our portfolio , this important step in LASMO 's investor relations programme was both essential and effective and was just the first of such events — we will certainly be continuing this communications process in the future . ’
29 The à la glace or freezing method was invented by Armand Walfart in 1884 and is still the method of dégorgement most commonly used today .
30 On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds .
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