Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light , clearing and brightening to the pure pale gold of primroses where its slanting rays could reach , still left the gatehouse and the court within the gates in shadow , and Tutilo kept his eyes on the cobbles and trod carefully , as though he could not see his way clearly . |
| 2 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 3 | One solution is to integrate roses in mixed borders where their bare appearance in winter and early spring is disguised by adjacent shrubs . |
| 4 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 5 | On Aug. 18 Ratsiraka declared Madagascar to be a federation of six states with himself as President , claiming to have the support of the five provinces where his ruling Arema party continued to hold majorities in the regional councils . |
| 6 | I met him once , in the late 1980s , a year or so before his death , in a pub in Camden Town : he was a quick , if ageing , inquisitive and half-bolting creature : more for his thick spectacles than his literary associations , other drinkers in the pub called him ‘ The Professor ’ . |
| 7 | She feels her Australian temperament has left her with fewer inhibitions than her European counterparts . |
| 8 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 9 | AST Research Inc yesterday introduced the Premmia personal computer family , designed with a local-bus video subsystem claimed to yield more than 200% faster performance in Windows environments than its earlier generation Power Premium desktop systems which are cut $100 . |
| 10 | As Brah and Deem point out , Afro-Caribbean young women are stereotyped as ‘ pushy ’ , but achieve better in schools than their male counterparts . |
| 11 | FERMACELL not only meets BS 476 , Part 22 , but also has longer built-in reserves than its direct competitors . |
| 12 | Brachiopods begin to seem rather more complex animals than their simple shape suggests . |
| 13 | He proved rather better at handling animals than his own family , who scattered in all directions — his wife to Israel , his younger son to America , and Wim to England . |
| 14 | Now they 're better Jews than their own parents ever were — I know one chap from Willesden Green who wo n't even eat in his mother 's kitchen any more . |
| 15 | Village Group director Paul Hunter said he had been forced to ‘ rest ’ drivers until his firm Liverpool 's largest coach independent was paid . |
| 16 | We 're also running erm without , we must be running without or we 've got a significantly reduced level of chase-ups because our turn- rounds are , in most areas , are significantly better than they were . |
| 17 | Crustaceans are able to amble freely among the anemone 's tentacles because their hard exoskeletons protect them from stings from the nematocysts . |
| 18 | But they were encouraged to take other risks because their basic business ( lending for house purchase ) was getting unprofitable , because supervision by federal examiners was weak and because federal deposit insurance in effect underwrote any risks they cared to take . |
| 19 | Quite often we have to encourage our younger executives to take more risks because their natural reaction , particularly if they qualified as accountants , is to be conservative . ’ |
| 20 | Police heard their dying screams because his eight-year-old daughter Clare had dialled 999 and left the line open . |
| 21 | Obediently Thacker closed his eyes while his curious companion rummaged through one of many hiding places and produced a dark bottle . |
| 22 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 23 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 24 | The House will be interested to know that , in the six months since my hon. Friend last questioned me on the subject , there have been 992 call-outs from RAF Chivenor and 591 people have been assisted . |
| 25 | The difference is that she never felt guilty about it , whereas I , who have devoured baby and child books since my first pregnancy test was positive , do . |
| 26 | The official Xinhua news agency said the freeing of Mr Wang and Guo Haifeng several months before their four-year prison terms expired marked the end of China 's punishment of the students who led the protests . |
| 27 | If we accept the mundane world view — that disease has no inherent meaning or significance , that it is ‘ caused ’ by infections , viruses , heredity , biochemistry and the like , and can be ‘ cured ’ by suppressing the symptoms with drugs or removing the offending part — then we are throwing away a priceless gift , covering our ears as our Higher Self tries to speak to us . |
| 28 | The bishops of Norman Sicily were as much parvenus as their Norman masters . |
| 29 | Such ions are stable on their own but only form stable compounds when their electrostatic charge is neutralized by ionic bonding . |
| 30 | Find out how to use your eyes as your best accessory during the Prescriptives ‘ Have You An Eye For Colour ’ promotion . |