Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front bar , if the noise level becomes too oppressive , has prints of Lester Piggott decorating the wall , and a pool table . |
| 2 | Because Allitt opted not to go into the witness box , the defence case lasted just two-and-a-half days against the prosecution case of two-and-a-half months , at a likely cost of about £1.5 million . |
| 3 | The company announced they had secured a Ministry of Defence contract to deliver nearly 2,000 diesel engined Luton built Novas and almost 800 Ellesmere Port-built diesel 1.7 Astra Estates over the next three years . |
| 4 | Er my money 's gone on Storm Storm Alert about ten days ago at twelves and |
| 5 | I still could n't hear properly , I realised , unless it was the walls being so thick they kept out even the sound of the storm ; it was still going on out there ; from time to time the cloverleaf aperture lit up steely blue . |
| 6 | A special congressional committee investigating arms and drug smuggling recommended in late 1989 that certain prominent politicians and officials should be excluded from public life or dismissed , or barred from entering the country , because of their alleged connections with such activities . |
| 7 | However , eating a sensible diet , low in fact and high in fibre , is the simple and natural way to ensure your cholesterol level stays as low as it can , and to keep yourself in good all-round health . |
| 8 | This implies that the Estate Agents ' dictionary does not cover a large enough subset of the language used in the Banking text to provide significantly representative collocations . |
| 9 | Although the recent tightening of the anonymity provision for the rape survivor will probably curtail the practice of photographing the victim 's residence , the Brixton gang case showed how difficult the problem of anonymity is . |
| 10 | For example , in April 1991 a cyclone storm surge killed over 130,000 people in Bangladesh as the sea penetrated far inland over the low-lying coastlands . |
| 11 | Royal Mersey Yacht Club edged out Royal Anglesey Yacht Club by a quarter point in a team race in Mylnes . |
| 12 | Walking : There are several pleasant walks around the resort , while the Patscherkofel cable car opens up some spectacular hiking trails . |
| 13 | On 11 August , the Field Ambulance marched out complete from Stony Stratford to entrain at Wolverton for Reading , with the satisfaction of knowing that 98% of the men had volunteered for service abroad . |
| 14 | The Fourth Division side ran out 4-1 winners . |
| 15 | The original CED typesetting tape occupied about 27 MBytes . |
| 16 | The shoals of herring which were caught by part-time fishermen-farmers along the west coast have almost all gone . |
| 17 | Various branches of the electronics industry provide equally dramatic examples . |
| 18 | Where there is compatibility of pitch , the organ can be used very effectively with melodic solo instruments , or as part of an ensemble , or as a continuo instrument to fill in harmonic gaps and add weight of tone and sustaining power . |
| 19 | Anyone searching the resultant database by means of a computer terminal has almost instantaneous access to every item in the newspaper . |
| 20 | The strip search seemed fairly pointless , inasmuch as they did n't go through my pockets . |
| 21 | The US Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it was likely to initiate a ban against farm use of the antibiotic — known as sulfamethazine in the US — because two laboratory studies linked it to thyroid cancer in rats and mice . |
| 22 | Afternoon tea served daily 2 May–26 June , 22 Aug–25 Sep . |
| 23 | The Dow Jones stock index closed down 7.68 at 2,687.93 . |
| 24 | Of course , George Best and The Wedding Present have precious little in common . |
| 25 | Sir James has been lobbying the prime minister for a scheme to use official aid money to buy up Third World debt , sell off the principal , and swap the right to interest payments for a lease on tropical rain forests . |
| 26 | Historic Scotland commissioned Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division to carry out investigative work in advance of the installation of an improved heating system at the cathedral . |
| 27 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 28 | Scientists and engineers can apply for long term funding to open up new research directions |
| 29 | Aspiration cytology of the neck mass showed only amorphous , necrotic material . |
| 30 | an individual or as now as a , a Neighbourhood Watch , although I mean it 's not the main function of Neighbourhood Watch to do not noisy parties , but it could do , then make a complaint to Newark and District Council |