Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the people the youthful 48-year-old worked with in the theatrical world she was a real professional on stage and a bubbly , friendly extrovert away from the audience . |
| 2 | I fall asleep hours later to the sound of their engrossed murmuring on the night air . |
| 3 | Those grant-maintained schools are using that money effectively for the benefit of the school and , more importantly , of improving education for the pupils attending those schools . |
| 4 | The Persian empire made and used coins only in the part of its territory which adjoined the coin-using lands of Greece . |
| 5 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 6 | Example 2:1 Parcels clause of office suite ALL THAT suite of rooms on the floor of the building known as ( excluding the outer faces of the walls enclosing the said building and its roof and roof structure but including the structure supporting the floor of the said rooms ) and for the purpose of identification only edged in red on the attached plan Example 2:2 Parcels clause of open land ALL THAT parcel of land in and numbered on the Ordnance Map ( 1968 edition ) for the said district a copy of which is attached hereto ( including the entirety of the hedge and ditch on the western boundary of enclosure number but excluding the entirety of the hedges and ditches on the northern boundaries of the said enclosures and the entirety of the road on the southern boundaries thereof ) Example 2:3 Parcels clause of building excluding airspace ALL THAT building known as shown edged red on the attached plan but excluding the airspace lying above the existing roof of that building together with a right for the tenant with or without workmen to enter that airspace for the sole purpose of inspecting the building or carrying out any works for which the tenant is liable under this lease Example 2:4 Parcels clause with details of boundaries ALL THAT the floor of the building known as ( " the property " ) including ( i ) all non-loadbearing walls situated wholly within the red edging on the attached plan ( ii ) one half ( severed vertically ) of all non-loadbearing walls separating the property from any other part of the building ( iii ) all plaster or other decorative finish applied to any wall bounding the property and not included in paragraphs ( i ) or ( ii ) above or applied to any column or loadbearing wall within the property ( iv ) the whole of all doors door frames windows window frames ( including mastic joints or seals ) bounding the property ( v ) all ceilings bounding the property and any void between any suspended ceiling and the structural slat above ( vi ) all floor finishes and floor screeds including raised floors and floor jacks supporting such floors ( vii ) all light fittings and air conditioning units incorporated in any ceiling but not any other part of the air conditioning system |
| 7 | probably in that building there at the back |
| 8 | is that building anywhere near the site ? |
| 9 | The need for wood for fuel , building materials and tools would have required extensive woodland close to the settlement . |
| 10 | Use styling glaze to slick hair neatly onto the face . |
| 11 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 12 | Indeed , there is little point in paying out good money from hard-earned income merely for a name . |
| 13 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |
| 14 | On all courses we include a programme of extra-curricular activities either of a tourist nature or professionally orientated . |
| 15 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 16 | They are particularly prominent in the early stages of development at Godmanchester where , following the demise of the fort , a system of regular plots was apparently laid out , extending as a series of broad strips well into the territory surrounding the settlement . |
| 17 | ‘ So the beat constable should go down that lane once in every hour , ’ he remarked . |
| 18 | Having located the spot , which had to be served by a nearby airstrip , they rang Anthony Marangos in Paris and told him to call back in half an hour with the largest houses closest to the spot . |
| 19 | Raleigh International 's current expedition in Namibia has young volunteers , aged between and 25 , working on eight projects all round the country . |
| 20 | A BUSINESS which began in a New York loft 35 years ago opened its European headquarters yesterday on the day Clwyd 's Euro-Week began . |
| 21 | Anti-communism thus united the interests of the US Occupation , the Japanese state and private employers especially in the face of a united front of public and private sector workers . |
| 22 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 23 | Then , spontaneously , Changez pushed himself up and danced with them , lifting each foot ponderously from the floor like a performing elephant , and sticking his elbows out as if he 'd been asked , in a drama class , to be a flamingo . |
| 24 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 25 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 26 | d ) The mtDNA/nuc.DNA ratio is 1.5 times higher in the mutant strain than in the wild type . |
| 27 | He enclosed a list of the 28 political prisoners still at the prison . |
| 28 | ‘ When father opened an account for me in that branch just across the river from the hospital in my P.T.S. days he advised me , if possible , never to move my account . |
| 29 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 30 | When auditors give qualified reports , they should refer to all material matters about which they have reservations , giving their reasons in each case together with a quantification of its effect on the financial statements if this is both relevant and practicable . |