Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political coverage on television necessarily promotes leaders because it usually has time for only one item per party . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , ’ the night manager said with the dry kind of irony usually reserved for flying pigs and hell freezing over . |
| 3 | Even when there 's precious little money about people still have to eat , and our ships do a steady bread and butter trade in produce from the Continent . |
| 4 | the bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia ; the assassination of Allende drowned the groans of Bangladesh ; the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende ; the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai ; and so on and so forth , until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten . |
| 5 | A solid snake of people still wound back along the north shore of the loch . |
| 6 | I have discussed active transport at some length , because it is one of the processes on which the maintenance of spatial differentiation in organisms ultimately depends . |
| 7 | Inability to buy oil is widely interpreted to mean inability to sustain even the very low level of industrialization already achieved . |
| 8 | The low level of ICA also means that many carers will still have to ‘ top up ’ the benefit with means-tested income support — if they are eligible . |
| 9 | It is very tempting to suppose that the lack of any such reliable signals , and the perilously low level of security often reached in human communities , must be connected with a high level of conceptual and , in particular , predictive thought , and also an associated capacity for deceit . |
| 10 | And aspects of the quality assurance for each kind of unit also differed . |
| 11 | Obviously , each kind of experience necessarily contains elements of the other . |
| 12 | The valley of the upper Lugg is a tree-clad grove in the rounded mountains of that part of Wales still known to its inhabitants as Radnorshire . |
| 13 | He tempted Mike Atherton into a rash hook before lunch then returned to break up a third wicket stand between Fairbrother and Nick Speak which had put Lancashire in complete command . |
| 14 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 15 | That kind of detail just does n't reach me . |
| 16 | Well that may it may be unfair and until recently that kind of situation never came before the courts . |
| 17 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 18 | But then today that kind of interview rarely happens . |
| 19 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 20 | They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt . |
| 21 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 22 | Despite the government 's arbitrary confiscation of high denomination notes in January , the outstanding stock of cash still dwarfs the annual value of retail sails . |
| 23 | The course provides opportunity for : ( i ) graduates from African , Asian , and Pacific backgrounds to undertake advanced study of Christianity directly related to their own setting ; ( ii ) persons who have worked , or who expect to work , in cross-cultural situations to examine the religious context in which they operate , or to reflect constructively on their experience ; ( iii ) prospective candidates for research involving cross-cultural or inter-religious study who do not have specialised training in these fields , to bridge the gap between previous academic study and the new material . |
| 24 | And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers . |
| 25 | Family , kin , and the more extensive institution of Biraderi therefore serve to help Pakistanis in Britain and to forge a strong sense of community . |
| 26 | That should be no barrier , according to Looking Right : ‘ What we must do here is to explain that the political side of things mainly involves what is little more than Party donkeywork . |
| 27 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 28 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 29 | That defeat in Melbourne still hurts Botham . |
| 30 | It is the largest piece of land least changed by man and should be able to stay that way . |