Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual cow-pats are often still very hot and plastic when they hit the ground , so that as they pile up one on top of each other , they spread out further , and weld together , forming a solid mass known as spatter . |
| 2 | This is caused by energy from a weak field pulsating in harmony with the resonant frequency of ion motion in a steady magnetic field . |
| 3 | Only the Norman crypt remains as evidence of that church . |
| 4 | Do n't press seams with a seam roller , especially on the non-vinyls , which have hollow backings filled with glue . |
| 5 | Why could n't he have a Ford ? ) was outside No. 16 and there was a builder 's flat-backed truck parked in front of it . |
| 6 | What effect does agricultural support have on world prices ? |
| 7 | ( Both clocks were in due course converted to pendulum clocks . ) |
| 8 | To send a letter in due course to ask for support from Council of Churches in the UK and Ireland . |
| 9 | There he was in due course tried on indictment , convicted and sentenced for the offences . |
| 10 | Annie and her assistant Jim acted as language arbitrators . |
| 11 | 5.2.3.4 Volcanic products associated with water |
| 12 | A FRAIL pensioner died of shock after he was mugged as he fed the pigeons near his home . |
| 13 | Systems using heat detectors are inappropriate for high-bay warehouses bearing in mind that their response will be little ahead of the sprinkler system , which itself will provide an alarm signal both locally and to the Fire Brigade . |
| 14 | High-bay warehouses vary in height between 10 and 35 metres but a typical height for the 1980's may well be in the 20–25 metre range . |
| 15 | The technical skills required to recommission , repair and maintain such machines are still available . |
| 16 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 17 | Short-term contract working in its traditional form has not been a subject of substantial political or academic concern , but questions have been asked as to whether the " new " short-term contract working in manufacturing is displacing regular working or undermining the conditions of the regular labour force . |
| 18 | The key question is : what impact would Labour policies have on unemployment and the economic well-being of the country ? |
| 19 | A very junior subaltern leaps to attention and says " the colonel 's wife SIR ! " |
| 20 | Changes in political institutions culminated in cabinet government from 1885 , the promulgation of a constitution in February 1889 and the opening of an elected assembly in 1890 . |
| 21 | Also in Indonesia , Agil Riyanto bin Darmowiyoto , a law student , continues to serve a 15-year sentence imposed for subversion in 1987 . |
| 22 | The programme designed for schools to examine all aspects of the overt and covert curriculum begins with reflection on Catholic school philosophy and goals . |
| 23 | Qassam immediately issued a statement threatening to kill Toledano unless the Israeli authorities released from prison Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , the founder and leader of Hamas . |
| 24 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 25 | If at any time the whereabouts of a child on the register are not known , it is the custodian 's specific responsibility to set in hand immediate action to try to trace the child . |
| 26 | Minor work was carried out inside the church which included the removal of the false chancel arch made out of timber , lath and plaster , and the matchboard ceiling in the chancel , because of extensive damage caused by furniture beetle . |
| 27 | Taxonomy should be a common descriptive backbone to research in plant sciences , but the way in which it is conventionally presented makes such use difficult for the non-taxonomist . |
| 28 | Communications between them and Rough Trade came to a standstill as they prepared to undertake a short Scottish tour , and from this odd situation a strange story came to light . |
| 29 | She looked a little worn and bleary-eyed , though her long , lion-coloured hair shone like health itself in the brassy sunlight of mid-day . |
| 30 | The fiddler crabs of North America emerge from their burrows at low tide to scavenge for food . |