Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also appointed commercial director , Coatings Europe , and head of Marine and Yacht worldwide . |
| 2 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 3 | This photograph is part of an exhibition by Toby Glanville of British and French traditionally food producers . |
| 4 | A maximum gain of 100 and noise down to 90µV eliminate the need for a following amplifier in many cases , the gain being available in all operating modes . |
| 5 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 6 | The first occasion was in October 1991 , when I descended the station steps to find that the ELR 's intentional BR(LMR) 1950s image of maroon and straw everywhere , supplemented by ‘ double sausage ’ signs , had been suppressed . |
| 7 | With over 10 years experience of developing and manufacturing ecologically safe products , ECOVER maintains a research laboratory which constantly monitors the composition and quality of the products in accordance with a strict set of standards . |
| 8 | Visits were also made to Canada , to see how the implementation of a national curriculum there was affecting work in English , and to Denmark and France , to look at the teaching of Danish and French respectively , and at those countries ' arrangements for bilingual children . |
| 9 | Start at half past nine and start again at nine thirty . |
| 10 | Tonight the sun shone through elegant Regency stripes of red and cream instead of through the chintz which had hung at the window for the past month . |
| 11 | But there was a glint of green and gold still in them , and their eyes were pain-filled , but determined . |
| 12 | His language was a mixture of Czechoslovakian and English then , as , ‘ Moje milá , sweet miláčku , I love you so very much , ’ he cried , and cradled her against him , kissing her cheek , the corner of her left eye before , one of his hands moving to the back of her head , he adjusted her position until the skin of her cheek was against his . |
| 13 | If you can live with the slightly awkward depth adjuster , the motor/blade combination makes this a saw which will cut through hard and softwood as easily as a knife through butter . |
| 14 | The dramatic conflict between good and evil either brought out heroic qualities in boys , or it exposed those who were cowardly and unmanly . |
| 15 | After all this is just what the theologians have been saying all along : We have had an innate knowledge of the difference between good and evil ever since Eve ate that apple in the Garden of Eden . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , these are very expensive , and the limited use made of online search services makes the trade-off between online and CD-ROM very uneconomic for the Garden , compared to larger library systems . |
| 17 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 18 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 19 | This measure was introduced in 1978 and protection only applies therefore from this date . |
| 20 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 21 | Second favourite at 10–1 was Bassnet , with Freddie , a gallant second to Jay Trump in 1965 and second again to Anglo in 1966 , third favourite at 100–9 . |
| 22 | The council tax , increase in rents , and tax on electric and gas now means I must find approximately another £22.50 a week . |
| 23 | In Britain , the balance between public and private sector funding is five to one and individual rather than corporate benefactions form a ‘ negligible ’ element of the private sector . |
| 24 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 25 | Such an argument I do not commend to anybody else , but man is guided by more than reason alone , and in this great conflict , I wanted to play a clear and definite part . |