Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE absence of Joel Moore ( Achilles tendon ) and Francis Drake ( retired ) , the Spanish carried too much firepower in this European Championship match . |
| 2 | The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation , diseases of the bowel , gout , and bladder stones . |
| 3 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 4 | This is particularly welcome : the 911 had so much weight concentrated over its tail that it was prone to locking front wheels in the wet . |
| 5 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 6 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 7 | Richard Taruskin has suggested that some initial American resistance to the a cappella theory of chanson performance in the Middle Ages was inevitable because American ensembles of the 1970s possessed very few singers who could be imagined giving a satisfactory demonstration of such a performing technique . |
| 8 | Many of you wanted to have a follow-up to the successful day on working with the elderly held earlier this year , and we have therefore asked , who some of you will remember from that day , to give specific tips on how to ‘ handle ’ elderly people ; has also agreed to share some of her knowledge and experience with us later in the year . |
| 9 | It was a fresh-run fifteen-pound salmon , the first caught there that year . |
| 10 | Although both batteries show the correct voltage , the alkaline has far more stamina . |
| 11 | She reflected that if Time had needed to deposit its flotsam on her doorstep , could it not have taken the form of a steady young man who caught the 5.30 train home each evening , and played cricket at the weekends ? |
| 12 | If not , did the Vietnamese have that much chance of winning as a national army ? |
| 13 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 14 | The Socialist government of the 1980s spent too much money and collected too little , thereby going spectacularly into the red . |
| 15 | THE HOME video market is due for a big upset later this month . |