Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about three comics like this left available to girls now — in 1983 there were at least six . |
| 2 | Mrs Radcliffe too shows more interest than Jane Austen in her peasants and their dwellings : mirth may co-exist with poverty and ignorance in hovels without chimneys or windows where men and beasts shelter together , while her more fortunate poor live in cottages so arcadian that her wandering gentlefolk may even stay in them overnight . |
| 3 | A pencil sketch by Walker at the Courtauld Institute shows a standing female nude with arms fully stretched upwards and face turned to follow which is inscribed underneath with the title ‘ Aspiration ’ . |
| 4 | These recently acquired spoils of war , added to the Trees ' well-documented generosity of girth and a general world-weariness alarming for men only in their mid-20s , lend the impression that a lifetime 's shift down that proverbial coal mine would be a less gruelling occupation . |
| 5 | That prompted a musical u-turn akin to Clannad suddenly embracing thrash metal and ‘ Screamadelica ’ brings that reappraisal to its logical conclusion . |
| 6 | He looked to one side , at the dazzling expanse of machair ; endless emerald green scattered thick with flowers so bright they seemed lit from inside . |
| 7 | Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 31 runs in the third and final one-day international in Colombo yesterday , to win the three-match series 2-0 . |