Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere that world carries on in a crowded theatre foyer , a cosmopolitan crowd , the women glittering with diamonds , unchanged by war , by revolution , by suffering . |
| 2 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 3 | Thankfully that treatment went out of fashion , but the current fashion is to blame the same symptoms on poor circulation in the brain and give cerebral vasodilators , remedies that enlarge blood vessels in the brain . |
| 4 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 5 | With much of the labour flow into industry permanent , rather than of the temporary migrant pattern common in the prewar years , the population structure of many rural areas is distorted , with most agricultural work carried out by the elderly , women and children . |
| 6 | Sadly , it has been our experience in the past that the most specialised work carried out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment leads scientists into a cul-de-sac of research that has little , or no , relevance to science as practised in civilian life … |
| 7 | It was naturally tempting for a rather superstitious man to trust again to an intuitive judgment of his own made in much the same circumstances as in the previous year . |
| 8 | The manual is not only one of the most interesting documents to come out of the Sultanate , it is also one of the most precious keys we have to the concerns that meant most to the war-obsessed amirs of Tughluk Delhi . |
| 9 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 10 | US design was offering the evergreen Chevrolet Corvette but the most interesting car coming out of the US — via Britain — was the Ford GT40 , originally a Lola design . |
| 11 | ‘ That I will ! ’ said a hearty voice from within , and a little bright-eyed woman came up to them . |
| 12 | Their usual professionally lugubrious expressions slipped markedly into stark astonishment , almost disbelief , hoping , no doubt , that this was not a glimpse of the future . |
| 13 | If the strict regulations in most western countries governing the transportation , temporary holding , and eventual killing of farm animals , were more effectively policed , and often inadequately staffed inspectorates brought up to required strength , then mistreatment could be all but abolished . |
| 14 | ‘ The clearest , most unequivocal finding to come out of our social analysis is the singularity of the subjects in it . ’ |
| 15 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 16 | BELOW RIGHT A close up of Dawn 's very soft head and neck feathers . |
| 17 | They could also , of course , be used by less friendly rustlers descending unawares on those communities : one hill track between St Mary 's Loch and a ford across the Tweed was ruefully dubbed ‘ Thief 's Road ’ ; but most such raiders preferred to shun known tracks and ride straight across wild countryside on their sturdy little Border horses , known as hobblers or hobbies . |
| 18 | Gouache techniques produce very satisfying results , with the less liquid acrylics scoring better in this department . |
| 19 | Endlessly undulating soundwaves spiral upwards like bubbles from a deep ocean trench , desert island discs becalmed in a sea of tranquillity . |
| 20 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 21 | So we 've now obviously got the political will to take action against erm Iraq , do you see them being enough political will following on from this conflict erm I mean we obviously do n't know how the course of this conflict is going to go . |
| 22 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 23 | Medical Services Division is an extremely professional service operating strictly to all guidelines and directives , do not forget to tell your prospects . |
| 24 | By the nineteenth century it was a highly respectable area lived in by bankers amongst others . |
| 25 | ‘ Success in television must at the end of the day be measured in terms of programme standards , and to achieve so much this year augurs well for the future . ’ |
| 26 | Just as words represent concrete things in the world and the relationship between words in an utterance refers to a relationship between concrete things , so cultural artefacts refer back to the history of culture . |
| 27 | But the fact that so few rooms stand out in my memory is not so surprising . |
| 28 | ‘ So few people dress up for first nights these days … ’ |
| 29 | You can lend us all some clothes to go home in , ’ Nutty decided . |
| 30 | It was pharmaceutical as well , so there was no problem of having all this muck mixed in with it like there is now . |