Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face will fill out , the limbs will unwind and the real Gemma will emerge , so that by the time she is six months old even a stranger will be able to tell her from Carla Marie . |
| 2 | Waiting lists for marriage guidance can be many months long so the client comes to the CAB instead ; independent debt counsellors are rare outside the CAB ; unemployment causes stress that is not within the remit of the Job Centre , so the client comes to the CAB ; few of these problems have easy or immediate solutions . |
| 3 | Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy-nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted . |
| 4 | Metal collars with long steel spikes were undoubtedly the favourite form of protection against throttling , although Punch ( 13 December 1862 ) also dreamt up ‘ great coats made a-la-porcupine … with spring daggers at the elbows and sharp spikes all up the back ’ in order to discourage attack from the rear . |
| 5 | You can complete the in about two weeks and sessions last about an hour . |
| 6 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 7 | Beyond the tree-fringed mouth of Bull Pot of the Witches , the path to Ease Gill cuts left on to the fell 's edge and passes close by a trap door covering a shaft that leads into Lancaster Hole , the first route into the main cave system of Leck Fell . |
| 8 | Apart from the years 1988-90 when the PSBR was negative ( i.e. a public-sector financial surplus ) , this borrowing requirement has been met by sales of marketable debt ( principally bonds ) and of non-marketable debt ( principally savings certificates and deposits with the national savings bank ) . |
| 9 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 10 | State agencies other then the Ministry of Internal Affairs , furthermore , either had become convinced that the government would run more risks by abandoning reform than it would by continuing with it , or were acquiring ministers whose commitment to change was actually greater than that of their predecessors . |
| 11 | Er I think there 's er one problem of course is that regional newspapers do depend on situations vacant quite a bit and the situations vacant market is n't improving dramatically . |
| 12 | Second , God guides through other Christians , as he did in Acts 6 when the whole multitude chose the Seven , or in Acts 13 when the Spirit spoke to the church at Antioch about the need for Paul and Barnabas to go abroad . |
| 13 | Our cottage lay on stubby cliffs close by the sea . |
| 14 | In bars 5–7 there a lot of left-hand-only hammer-ons and tremolo arm slides . |
| 15 | In this age of electricity and modern heating systems , there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago . |
| 16 | Some Greeks admired Persian methods ( p. 18 ) ; even Plato , who thought that Persians suffered , as from a disease , from an excess of tyranny which made them congenitally weak , could call their empire a ‘ solidly based system ’ ( Laws 685 where the reference is to Persia ) . |
| 17 | Each celluloid window was two inches smaller all the way round than the gap it was supposed to fill and was held in place by fishing line . |
| 18 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 19 | The City 's top gurus reckon that the new package will certainly set shares alight when the stock market opens this morning but there are doubts as to whether it will continue to keep share prices riding high . |
| 20 | Growth may be needed to keep the shareholders and stock analysts happy otherwise the share price might decline . |