Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here again I was able to prove myself useful and to gain a little kudos : I could compose with what seemed to others an astonishing facility an ode or sonnet on behalf of some lovesick junior and addressed to some beefy , lacrosse-playing heroine in whom I myself had no emotional interest whatsoever . |
| 2 | The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on . |
| 3 | The aqueous solution was made fresh daily and used in the rats at a dose 10 times higher ( 50 µg/kg ) than that shown in separate experiments on these animals to reduce by 50% the platelet activating factor induced hypotension ( ID 5 =5 µg/kg ip ) . |
| 4 | It was cleaned by Gorton shed prior to taking out a southbound express and adorned with wreaths , it would enter Victoria just after the service had begun . |
| 5 | Shreds of rubber twisted and coiled at the edge of the highway . |
| 6 | The result in Chile is that poor , small farmers exist alongside medium-sized farms which are capital intensive and produce for export , and a large number of the rural population have become landless and are poverty stricken . |
| 7 | Chilean environmentalists are appealing for international support in the latest phase of their campaign to stop large tracts of natural forest being clear felled and replaced by pine and eucalyptus plantations . |
| 8 | The basic ingredient of beer needs careful nurturing and transforming into malt before it is ready to begin the slow , ruminative journey that ends with the pint in the pub . |
| 9 | Together they constitute a representative sample of the range of work carried out in English inspired and informed by the broad spectrum of Kristeva 's influential writings , from her early semiotically based work , notably Revolution in Poetic Language , to the later psychoanalytically oriented studies of abjection , love and melancholia . |
| 10 | The club 's open to anyone in Scottish Nuclear and organises at least one outing each month . |
| 11 | The increase no doubt contributed to the Beveridge Committee 's attitude five years later that the organization was bureaucratic , top heavy and over-centralized in London . |
| 12 | Gasping air into his lungs , he dived down , groping for the fishing-line looped and re-looped round Gomez 's legs . |
| 13 | These will be removed later and the outside spokeshaved and scraped to a good finish . |
| 14 | He gave her a very mocking bow , his smile gleaming white and taunting against a tanned face , and Maggie fled , ignoring his final instructions to put on some sensible shoes and tell Ana . |
| 15 | Each party tended to see its own central ideal and to look at the others concerned as a perverse distraction from it . |
| 16 | Also known as WHITE LADIES they dress in pure white and live by streams , so they may meticulously rinse their gowns clean every evening . |
| 17 | The Prosecution alleges that it was here , on a night in November two years ago that Pauline Leyshon and her boyfriend Ivor Stokle were bundled into a car which was then set alight and pushed over the edge of the hill . |
| 18 | Mr Tapie is by no means a doctrinaire socialist and sits as an independent in the National Assembly . |
| 19 | The church was deconsecrated in the early nineteenth-century and converted into a warehouse , at which time its art treasures were moved out to the Brera where they still remain , despite the church having been reconsecrated in the twentieth-century . |
| 20 | The ceiling in the old kitchen was painted dark grey and etched with circles , some enclosing helixes and geometric foliate forms , while the fireplaces were surrounded by brickwork , itself painted over and ornamented in all kinds of ways . |
| 21 | I think that in the nineteen nineties , there is agreement that some reform is need is needed that there should be a better balance between the different groups at conference , and that decision making in the parties should be seen to be democratic open and based on one person one vote . |
| 22 | This underthrusting began in the Early Miocene and contributed to the doubling of crustal thickness ( up to 80 km in places ) and the impressive subsequent uplift of the Higher Himalayas . |
| 23 | He used to be dark haired and worked in the toy shop in Sandhurst . |
| 24 | Dark blue and flecked with white . |
| 25 | It will be counter productive and damaging to the process if the subsequent enquiries of a prospective purchaser invalidate the document ’ |
| 26 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 27 | If their driving is hazardous enough they can be charged with dangerous driving and tried before magistrates or even a crown court . |
| 28 | STEVEN Littlewood , 27 , of Bridgewater Avenue , Latchford , Warrington , was remanded in custody at Warrington magistrates court yesterday charged with the aggravated taking of a Ford Escort XR3i cabriolet , causing the death of 19-year-old Julian Osborne , of Dorchester Road , Hood Manor , Warrington , causing Osborne 's death by dangerous driving and driving without insurance . |
| 29 | Shtikov 's proposal was warmly welcomed by the Korean left and viewed with alarm by the right . |
| 30 | How was the Beau Ideal absorbed and reinforced by the architectural profession in the design of municipal suburbs ? |