Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip VI did so at Crécy in 1346 ; John II was captured at the battle of Poitiers in 1356 ; Charles VII personally led the assault on Pontoise in 1441 ; while on the English side Edward III and Henry V provide us with excellent examples of the martial qualities demonstrated by certain kings . |
| 2 | it 's only about twenty twenty , thirty , forty pee something like that . |
| 3 | Some find themselves into formal language while others remain always in the realm of slang . |
| 4 | The Canadian writer Mavis Gallant put it like this : ‘ The mystery of what a couple is , exactly , is almost the only true mystery left to us , and when we have come to the end of it there will be no more need for literature — or for love , for that matter . ’ |
| 5 | I wonder if you would be good enough to place the following thank you in next months mag ? |
| 6 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
| 7 | Certainly , recordings of Tin Pan Alley tunes from the 1920s , 1930s and 1940s contain plenty of persuasive evidence for Adorno 's thesis . |
| 8 | ‘ If anyone supposes ’ , she wrote , ‘ that my power of speaking was a gift that came naturally to me , without any effort on my part , let them once and for all dispossess themselves of any such ideas . |
| 9 | This type of microphone is very small and very sensitive , but requires a d.c. supply which in this circuit is provided by resistor R1 . |
| 10 | And then I stopped farming in nineteen seventy cut it till sixty nine . |
| 11 | Good eating habits , plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , and , of course , a reasonable amount of sleep all lend themselves to good health , which in turn will be reflected in a clear skin and bright eyes which are attractive in themselves . |
| 12 | Now the teacher entering this role may not be at all clear which of these or mixture of these or other structures is going to be appropriate . |
| 13 | Many find themselves in low-paid part-time employment , with few prospects for real security or advancement . |
| 14 | The revolutionary , apparently irregular and discordant sprung rhythm in which it was written , the vivid , kinetic , but often difficult diction , the perception of the universality of suffering : all mark it as one of the greatest and most experimental of nineteenth-century poems . |
| 15 | Ian , a cracking debut ; first of all take us through that er first half save , you had nothing to do , conditions awful and yet you pull off a save like that . |
| 16 | All serve it with total dedication and complete artistry . |
| 17 | The word set is used to mean a collection of things , ( not only numbers ) which all have something in common . |
| 18 | ‘ We all have it in some degree , but it 's hardly necessary as a restraint here . |
| 19 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 20 | Why not come out arid say it in this day and age , she muttered to herself as she dialled the number . |
| 21 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 22 | Whereas we treat human excreta as something to be neutralized with chemicals and politely disposed of , the Chinese see it as one more resource . |
| 23 | From this sort of questioning , it is possible to draw conclusions about the impact of the ad — was it the first or second mentioned by most people , or did no one mention it at all ? |
| 24 | Visitors balk at Britain 's free-market ways if they first experience them in overpriced minicabs lurking at Heathrow airport and Victoria station , or in greedy moneychangers . |
| 25 | Altho the players marks were as expected … you cant take anything from these normally as I reckon they do them from match reports rather than from going to matches … the one thing they CANT lie about is the shots/corners scores … and here goes … |
| 26 | May I borrow some space in your magazine to say a big thank you for all the good wishes we have received in connection with the Presidency of the Baptist Union of Scotland ? |
| 27 | A very big thank you to all of you who helped with the sale . |
| 28 | A big thank you to all the schools who helped , St David 's , Sacred Heart , Redcar , Kings Manor , Beverly School for the Deaf , St Paulinus , St Josephs , St Thomas More , St Bernadettes , St Augustine 's and Newlands . |
| 29 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone involved in this project would like to say a big thank you to all who have supported us . |