Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The volume seems about right but the shape is quite wrong . |
| 2 | I just want to end up by saying I know it 's all about reduction for unemployed and the telephone this union has worked very hard with the community in Salford throughout the country if you just give me a moment , Mr President , I 'll get this unclear |
| 3 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 4 | Although many of us are now working around disability issues professionally , the lull in activity by self-organized disability groups such as SAD and the Liberation Network feels as though it might be coming to an end . |
| 5 | So are Barcelona under Johan Cruyff , as if participating in a benign conspiracy : two good results for Real and the Toshack era takes off . |
| 6 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 7 | Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat . |
| 8 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 9 | At Christmas receipts were £500 below normal and the club owed £100 in rent to the County Cricket Club . |
| 10 | When the laser reaches the pale stone surface the light emitted is bounced back instead of absorbed and the process ceases . |
| 11 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 12 | The smell of damp and the whisper of cobwebs combined to create an eerie , haunted feeling . |
| 13 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 14 | Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work . |
| 15 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 16 | The mainland of Yvresse lies along the eastern coast of Ulthuan but the realm also encompasses the islands of the Eastern Ocean . |
| 17 | Empty of content but the drip of pain . |
| 18 | As the distilled purity of pastoral and the fullness of desire give way to the absences which constitute them , so the journals move towards disenchantment , the acknowledgement of loss , and a sense of the futility of returning in order to recover an original intensity of being : |
| 19 | It is of limited or no benefit for a current mood swing . |
| 20 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 21 | Incentives to do this may include avoiding the costs of a full hearing , and an opportunity to agree the level of fine and the wording of any press notice . |
| 22 | Bleeding from peptic ulcer persists or recurs early in 25% of cases , which carries a high death rate related to the severity of bleeding or the need for surgical treatment . |
| 23 | For barbell take a note of the light , the colour of the water , the speed of current and the temperature . |
| 24 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 25 | " Take a quart of Creme and a pint of rhenish wine and the juice of 4 lemons sweeten it to your taste and put in some leamon peele then whip it up with a small rod and put it with a spoone into syllabub glasses . " |
| 26 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |
| 27 | All a long way from a pint of mild and a bag of chips after a night at the City Varieties … |
| 28 | If a mass of hot and a mass of cold gas were brought together , then it was very highly improbable that they would not mix and give a uniformly warm mixture ; but there was a small probability , and Maxwell imagined a demon who might assist the process , that the warm gas might separate out into a hot and a cold portion , in defiance of the Second Law . |
| 29 | Many officials believed that ‘ as a rule , men of inferior or no education and of low morals resort to petition-drawing as a means of livelihood . ’ |
| 30 | National minimum wage , of which has said , the employment consequences would be little short of disastrous and the society backs estimates that up to eight hundred thousand jobs could be destroyed by the minimum wage and of the A E U described the minimum wage as nonsense and said he was flatly opposed to it 's introduction in the private sector . |