Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some policemen from Cambridge County and they were handpicked , two brothers came among that little group , and they each weighed over twenty stone , these two brothers , and of course everybody referred to them , as the two tinies . |
| 2 | The CF-modified adenovirus vector , developed by Transgène and Michel Perricaudet of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique viral genetics laboratory at Villejuif , is the same as that used earlier this month by Ronald Crystal of Cornell University in New York on a 23-year-old patient in the first CF gene therapy trial . |
| 3 | Technically , it was an epiphytic bromeliad , although not knowing this made very little difference to the plant . |
| 4 | Labour 's poll tax spokesman , Mr David Blunkett , last night said this provided yet another reason to doubt the Government 's projection of poll tax bills . |
| 5 | This involved quite elaborate dressing-up , and the fun and laughter of those Boxing Day nights was a treasure indeed . |
| 6 | All patients ate normal food , but some reported more thorough mastication and slower swallowing than before . |
| 7 | On the principle question in the case , the concensus of the judges was that the authorities against the existance of the defence were irresistable , but perhaps this payed too little regard to the paralell rule for the priviledge of self-defence . |
| 8 | Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people . |
| 9 | This received only limited press attention outside the country despite the novelty . |
| 10 | The president , knowing that this foretold more terrible violence , asked the chiefs to call off the protest , thereby depriving his army of a further excuse for slaughter . |
| 11 | But this caused little permanent difficulty for the government . |
| 12 | This allowed relatively easy access from Bodø , the start of Kungsleden ( Ammarnäs ) being a sod of a place to reach . |
| 13 | Some lost far more manufacturing jobs in the 1970s than others . |
| 14 | This meant much greater freedom in the siting of industry ; small workshops could now equip themselves with power tools . |
| 15 | This meant much detailed work , such as keeping track of the relative sizes of the workforces and payrolls of each operating company , the ratios of hourly , weekly and monthly employees , and frequent monitoring of the way these and other factors were changing . |
| 16 | Joe came home on leave and this brought even more comfort to his mother . |
| 17 | The perceived attitudes of teachers seemed to convince them that the school system was ‘ rigged ’ : some saw very little point in trying . |
| 18 | Some preferred more silent meditation , some preferred more structure and were uneasy about spontaneous prayer . |
| 19 | The fusion of the figure and its surroundings on which the Italians insisted was something that the Cubists had already achieved , and although the Futurists went further and added that the painting must be a synthesis of things seen and things remembered , visible and invisible , this had very little effect on the means employed . |
| 20 | Chester by 1780 had only one packhorse service , to North Wales , while it had wagon and coach services to a large number of English towns . |
| 21 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 22 | I wonder where those two police officers came from that came here that day . |
| 23 | This is particularly welcome : the 911 had so much weight concentrated over its tail that it was prone to locking front wheels in the wet . |
| 24 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |
| 25 | The period 1966 — 73 saw both national manufacturing decline and spatial dispersion . |
| 26 | The larger had only one arm , and a head which was the wrong size and shape . |
| 27 | They all played well last week so |
| 28 | This Hurricane was badly damaged , and ran into a parked aircraft ; fortunately the latter suffered only minor damage . |
| 29 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 30 | It all started early this morning , when a rather anxious mum called in at the office . |