Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yellowish-gray brick houses gave straight on to the street , which she had found only after turning out of another one , and then another . |
| 2 | The postprandial colonic motility index increased significantly , when compared to basal values , in this group of children ( 3.2 ( 0.3 ) mm Hg/min basal v 8.4 ( 1.1 ) mm Hg/min postprandial , p<0.001 ) . |
| 3 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 4 | The drive to recruit female members to the Republic 's Reserve Defence Forces got underway last night at the Military post in Castleblayney . |
| 5 | The agreed national rural electrification programme proceeded faster than planned , and by 1958 72 per cent of farms were already connected . |
| 6 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 7 | The question of a separate European defence identity had also dominated meetings in Paris on May 27 between Cheney and senior French officials . |
| 8 | I suspect that the European defence force owes more to the French belief that , by merging German and French forces together , it effectively removes the threat of German militarism , while resurrecting the long-held French ambition to remove the immediate American influence from European defence , which is the case with NATO . |
| 9 | The Malleny Park side has yet to decide on its final line-up but will relish the opportunity to end the season in a flourish at home and push themselves into third position . |
| 10 | The sacked Timex workforce have finally accepted that their nine month battle with the American corporation is over . |
| 11 | Some of these broad polytechnic/college degrees seem relatively ‘ academic ’ in content ; others are broad in occupational terms . |
| 12 | Michael Banks , for the first time in the run , showed some signs of his real power as the Hooded Owl speech drew near . |
| 13 | The congestion in the nose may result in the normal breathing pattern stopping entirely during sleep ( sleep apnoea ) . |
| 14 | Then we can show that the relationship between the quantity of base money in existence and the outstanding money supply depends numerically upon the magnitude of the ratios and . |
| 15 | We have a 100ml sample size of Dry Skin Relief to give away absolutely free to the first 2500 readers whose names are drawn from the postbag . |
| 16 | Also not in Madrid are the big ‘ Martyrdom of St Lawrence ’ and the ‘ Martyrdom of St Bartholomew ’ , both from London private collections , which after careful comparison with definite Ribera works have also been demoted . |
| 17 | The European Badminton Union have already named a strong management team in Steve Baddeley as team manager and Denmark 's Poul Kold as team coach . |
| 18 | Persistent Guardian readers swung strongly towards a more unilateralist position , while Telegraph and Times readers swung in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | Groups who have normally felt able to assert a strong bargaining position did voluntarily restrain themselves for three years of evident national emergency . |
| 20 | In effect the European computer industry had already by summer 1984 obtained IBM 's agreement to the OSI requirement and this — not anti-monopoly — was now Europe 's chosen route . |
| 21 | The European computer industry has thus acquired a predominantly free market policy regime ( with , of course , significant elements of the other policy traditions ) . |
| 22 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 23 | Thus the tied cottage system emerged directly from the desire of farmers to control labour supplies — and it is this concern which remains at the heart of the system today . |
| 24 | It is therefore most unlikely that present-day stigmatized forms have always been stigmatized , or that present-day elite forms have always been elite . |
| 25 | The tragic depopulation of the area by emigration had its roots in the collapse of the ancient clan system after the battle of Culloden in 1746 , and the subsequent ‘ clearances ’ or evictions of small tenants and sub-tenants to make way for much larger tenants to take up extensive sheep farming requiring very little labour . |
| 26 | Oman had reportedly favoured the formation of a regional defence force drawn exclusively from the Gulf states [ see p. 38364 ] . |
| 27 | According to the legend , the story of News on Sunday began in 1978 with twenty-four-year-old Ben Lowe gazing moodily out of the aircraft window on a flight back from Canada to England . |
| 28 | The UN report blamed the army , the police and right-wing death squads for 12,000 disappearances since 1983 , confirmed that this was " by far the highest number recorded by the working group for any single country " , and suggested that there could still be many more ( a European Parliament team having recently reported its own estimate of 60,000 killed or missing ) . |
| 29 | Over a four-year period , 18 per cent compound approximately doubles , and Britain 's broad money supply has approximately doubled since that fatal Mansion House speech . |
| 30 | This may turn out to be possibly the most innovative airshow scenario staged anywhere this year — detailed down to Flyco flagging them off the ‘ deck ’ . |