Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 2 | Our resources are limited , but we try to give as much aid as possible tot he nascent profession in these countries . |
| 3 | The cistern of the washdown design is mounted on the wall , and connected tot he floor-mounted pan by a short length of curved pipe called the flush bend . |
| 4 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 5 | The almost incessant labour which that art requires leaves so little time for study that one can hardly find any person of sufficient experience capable of writing . |
| 6 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 7 | In retirement Mr Hewitt is looking forward to having more time for reading , preferring biographies and works of historical interest , with French literature his main love . |
| 8 | How can a cultural paradigm whose main principle is de-differentiation contribute to a political culture grounded in the apparently opposite principle of difference ? |
| 9 | As part of a sexual sub-culture which conservative America would rather did not exist — but fears to attack in the open — Mapplethorpe was an obvious target for the new Know Nothings . |
| 10 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 11 | Another care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch our great forbidder safe with all his spies about him . |
| 12 | The harness stank of dog , that unpleasant smell which big-dog owners never seem to notice in their own house . |
| 13 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 14 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 15 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
| 16 | The bass cut which this control provides has the effect of removing some of the boxiness that clutters up the lower mid-range at high volumes . |
| 17 | The fascination of a middle-class man such as A. J. Munby with the hands and the boots of working-class women , or ‘ Walter 's ’ fascination with working-class girls in the anonymous sexual chronicle My Secret Life are signs of the complex sexual meanings that frequently resulted . |
| 18 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 19 | In addition to the facial motor neurons in the basal plate of r4 , retrograde tracing from the vii/viii nerve exit point revealed a segment-specific group of sensory efferent neurons belonging to the vestibuloacoustic nerve whose primary dendrites extend across the midline . |
| 20 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 21 | Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced . |
| 22 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 23 | Duggie Brown is excruciatingly convincing as the sleazy , no-talent compere whose best reward is to grope all and sundry . |
| 24 | The asocial attitude which these pictures call for is not one normal to human beings of either sex . |
| 25 | Lawson got most fun watching Schwantz laying rubber wrestling his evil Suzuki |
| 26 | John Lambert wrote in the Daily Express that Maggie Smith was a ‘ rare commodity — a very funny girl whom most men would like to get serious with . |
| 27 | Kapil Dev appeals , and Australian opener Mark Taylor is lbw , giving the popular Indian his 400th Test wicket . |
| 28 | With ‘ Come gentle swains ’ ( xxiv ) Cavendish has the distinction of being the first composer to introduce into a printed collection the English refrain which three years later concluded every composition in Morley 's collection dedicated to Elizabeth I , The Triumphs of Oriana ( 1601 ) : then sang the shepherds and nimphes of Diana Long live faire Oriana . |
| 29 | The ‘ magic realism ’ is conjured up with great skill and paints a vivid historical picture which few history books can better . |
| 30 | Families are still per-ceived as consisting of one breadwinner who only exceptionally is a woman , and one dependent spouse whose primary responsibilities lie in the home . |