Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Partly irritated by critical misreadings of this piece , Barth published in 1979 a ‘ comparison and corrective ’ entitled ‘ The Literature of Replenishment ’ in which he sees disjunction , etc. as essentially modernistic and seeks a synthesis between modernism and nineteenth-century realism . |
| 32 | Like most British national trails , many continental distance routes assume that walkers are travelling light and seeking a roof over their heads each night . |
| 33 | If large curtains are vacuumed in situ with a hand attachment , this will keep the fabric fresh and prevent a build-up of dust , reducing the need for frequent cleaning . |
| 34 | Colouring a few faces brown and celebrating a couple of extra festivals does not constitute multicultural education . |
| 35 | Where on this conjoined road of shared experiences did the Prime Minister go so badly wrong and become a Tory ? |
| 36 | Inside it was cool and restful , with honey-coloured stone tiles covering a huge entrance hall , where she 'd promptly dropped her suitcase and flight-bag and made a dive for the kitchen and the fridge to quench her raging thirst . |
| 37 | It 's just that , as a nome who is probably seven years old and feeling a bit creaky , I 've got to admit I 'd find it sort of comforting to have a few of the good old signs around the place . |
| 38 | The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day . |
| 39 | BRITAIN 'S typical executive is male , 44 years old and has a salary of £30,355 ( including £4,826 in bonus pay ) , according to a comprehensive annual survey conducted by P-E Inbucon , writes Sarah Hogg . |
| 40 | They can go to work when about one year old and have a working life up to the age of approximately ten years . |
| 41 | The gang threatened to return within 30 minutes if the police were called , but defiant Darren wriggled free and triggered a burglar alarm . |
| 42 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |
| 43 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 44 | Please try to support this event ; tell anyone you think might be interested and bring a friend ( or 2 ? ) |
| 45 | Please try to support this event ; tell anyone you think might be interested and bring a friend ( or 2 ? ) |
| 46 | Jim was very interested and liked a mystery . |
| 47 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 48 | Sometimes now if I if I 'm not careful and put a bit too much |
| 49 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 50 | Now , many of the other items are also sound and have a part to play but they could be improved upon . |
| 51 | Both these days will have to be self-financing and need a minimum of 30 people attending — therefore — please complete the slip at the end of the notes and return to the Office . |
| 52 | At that time it was a kind of derelict brick structure , part of which er over there , the bit that 's at right angles to where we are now , was in a was a plumber 's showroom or had been and this part was actually derelict and had a demolition order on it . |
| 53 | It was safer for them to have one old woman occupying part of the place than to leave it empty and risk a group of drifters moving in . |
| 54 | The next step would be to come out in public and call a Press conference . |
| 55 | Relating manpower requirements to production forecasts can be costly and inconvenient and using a microcomputer will assist personnel departments in the decision process . |
| 56 | Whereas the bulk of America has been slow to latch on to new British acts , the more European attitudes of New York welcomed anything English and wielding a guitar . |
| 57 | It is simple to test for adductor strains , just lie on your back with feet outstretched and ask a friend to attempt to separate your ankles while you hold them together . |
| 58 | Through their work jewellery ceased to be something merely ornamental but attained a level of artistic and symbolic importance it has rarely equalled since . |
| 59 | An application under the Children Act which would have the effect of varying or discharging a direction or order made in wardship proceedings before 14 October 1991 should be made to the High Court even though the wardship itself may have ceased on that date under the transitional provisions ( In Re C ( a Minor ) , CA ( 1991 ) , cited above , see also Appendix 5 ) . |
| 60 | The draftsman did not make the crimes formerly contained in those statutes consistent or create a hierarchy of offences . |