Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Parnham phoned about ten minutes ago . |
| 2 | If the Scottish NFU had only half the fight of the Ayrshire farmers we would really see some action . ’ |
| 3 | The lanky Ray frittered away last night in a video-game marathon with Roy Lawrence . |
| 4 | The formation of Free Colombia comes only 15 days after that of another anti-Escobar group , Pepes ( People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar ) , which has vowed to kill the drug baron and his family . |
| 5 | In his own direct wireless appeal to the public Baldwin applied more characteristic tactics . |
| 6 | The social , political , and economic features of modern Latin America have deep historical roots , which those concerned with research into contemporary problems need to uncover . |
| 7 | Conventional trading links have been even weaker : between 1975 and 1978 Latin America supplied barely 1 per cent of Soviet imports and absorbed less than one quarter per cent of Soviet exports . |
| 8 | Bangor-born Murphy returned home 18 months ago , to take up a shop manager 's appointment with the progressive Golf Spot , run by Jim Teggart . |
| 9 | However , it was quickly realised that this area was much too extensive and the southern part of rural Bedfordshire remained largely unvisited during the three-year period . |
| 10 | Historic Scotland produced about 1.5 million free colour leaflets for distribution in the UK and overseas in 1992 – 3 . |
| 11 | The pace of rural Ireland remains as gentle as the weather . |
| 12 | Much of rural Ireland remained desperately poor . |
| 13 | Rural England has significantly higher proportions of ‘ non-permanent buildings ’ than does urban England : 1.3 per cent of the stock in rural districts compared with 0.5 per cent in urban districts . |
| 14 | But parts of Liverpool and Glasgow and much of rural Scotland lose as much as 50 per cent of the water . |
| 15 | The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes . |
| 16 | In this respect , the contemporary UK seems rather different from one aspect of Lash and Urry 's description of disorganized capitalism . |
| 17 | Ah havenae seen the auld Billy lukkin sae pleased wi himsel ’ since he took the rosette at the Edinburgh Royal Agricultural . |
| 18 | He attended primary school in Czechoslovakia , had a year off school in 1938–39 due to the troubles with the rise of fascism and the impending threat from Nazi Germany , and as life in Central Europe became increasingly precarious the Fleischmanns joined the growing band of refugees who settled in England . |
| 19 | Tests comparing the RISC with the VAX using similar C compilers show that on average RISC uses only two-thirds more instructions and RISC programs were only about 50 percent larger even though size optimisation was virtually ignored . |
| 20 | Real Madrid showed too much passion and had two sent off in the last 16 minutes of their UEFA Cup tie at Sigma Olomouc of Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | The Little Scala holds about 600 people . |
| 22 | The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale . |
| 23 | With the growing recognition of the real nature of the Stalinist regime , the ideological divisions of pre-war Europe became too simplistic to sustain , and even the attentiste ( wait-and-see ) attitude taken after the war by many Marxists , including Merleau-Ponty himself in Humanism and Terror ( 1947 ) , became no longer tenable . |
| 24 | He may have another outing on the Flat before bidding to add to his National Hunt tally here next month . |
| 25 | Poor little Rosie stood dripping wet and shivering . |
| 26 | After the introduction of economic and monetary union on July 1 , 1990 , the economies of western and eastern Germany followed sharply divergent paths . |
| 27 | I hear that the Ancient Teutons get twice that but it ca n't be true because they lost . |
| 28 | Already increasing suspicion of the USSR was encouraging Washington to pursue rather more policies in parallel with Britain . |
| 29 | He called upon Congress to pass two key Kennedy measures still lingering in committee — the tax cuts and the civil rights bill . |
| 30 | King Ludwig of Bavaria and Idi Amin are two examples ; President Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea became so obsessed with imaginary enemies in the 1970s that he butchered more than 10 per cent of his country 's population , including almost everyone identified as an intellectual . |