Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have witnessed in recent years is a subtle change whereby the courts , often without alluding to the authorities mentioned , have reviewed decisions to test their evidentiary basis . |
| 2 | The musicians lowered their instruments and stared into the concealing field where the rye seemed to move as though an invisible giant 's footsteps crushed it down . |
| 3 | S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 4 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 5 | Thus , if one takes a hypothetical case where the price was fixed at 10 francs per kilo , all grapes coming from the 100% crus — like Avize , Cramant , Bouzy , for example — would cost 10 francs per kilo , while grapes coming from the 94%-rated Rilly-la-Montagne would cost 9.40 francs and so forth . |
| 6 | If you wish , we can let the matter drop and others , perhaps more fortunate , can dig amongst the scandals , the lies and the deceit and possible search out the truth . ’ |
| 7 | This fabric will have vertical lines on the right side where the ribber needles are , but this can add to its attraction . |
| 8 | Look at the right side where the colour palette is displayed . |
| 9 | Climbers ' eyes tend to be drawn to the cleanest and most direct route up a rock face , while in a similar way walkers piece together peaks and ridges to create their own ‘ direct ’ routes — albeit ( usually ) on a more horizontal plane . |
| 10 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 11 | That was a clear case where the Bill was right and the timing was wrong . |
| 12 | This was a clear case where the defendant was in a position to and did in fact exert duress to require payment of the sum unlawfully claimed . |
| 13 | It is best reached by continuing along the road , now unenclosed , until near Leck Fell House when a steep scramble up the hillside ends in the company of the three massive cairns that will have plagued the curiosity since they first came in sight earlier . |
| 14 | The proper time interval ds between events in space–time with coordinate separation is then given by the quadratic metric equation where the components of the metric tensor are functions of the position and time . |
| 15 | There may , however , be instances where the tenant is obliged to make deductions , eg tax payable to the Inland Revenue where the landlord is non-resident and the following amendment to clause 4.1 may therefore be advisable : |
| 16 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 17 | But how far was British industry simply a victim of circumstances ? |
| 18 | The major geological risk , water penetration , is thus considerably limited except near the French coast where the chalk marl dips sharply to the south leaving the engineers no option but to tunnel through the more permeable and fissured grey and white chalk . |
| 19 | ‘ People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time , ’ recalls Mr Chambers , adding ‘ Brave ’ is a back-handed way of saying ‘ You 're mad ’ . ’ |
| 20 | As I write this the survivors are eight days old , and being fed Brineshrimp once a day , and powdered flake or powdered High Protein once a day . |
| 21 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 22 | The former reads a prepared script whenever the number is dialled and can do no more . |
| 23 | If historical time is the existence of the social totality then the relation between the two must be one of immediacy , allowing what Althusser calls an ‘ essential section ’ , that is ‘ a break in the present such that all the elements of the whole revealed by this section are in an immediate relationship with one another , a relationship that immediately expresses their internal essence ’ . |
| 24 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 25 | In most cases , if the holder of shares wishes to recover the money balance surrendered to the issues of the claim such as British Petroleum then the shares must be sold in a secondary market , i.e. a stock exchange , to some other party . |
| 26 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 27 | If you 've got a slightly different attitude also an attitude . |
| 28 | I was unable to find any legal basis under current English law whereby a psychiatrist might give consent ( or otherwise ) for a patient to have an invasive surgical procedure . |
| 29 | But 400 were recorded in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes alone in 1974/75 , an exceptionally wet winter when the species was unusually numerous . |
| 30 | He examined the gallery , then set off along the left-hand corridor where the men 's bedrooms were . |