Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 2 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 3 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 4 | Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream . |
| 5 | Well they 're taking all the power lines down in the village , or down through that part of the village which , fair enough , gets rid of the eyesore but they 're gon na put now a bloody big transformer , abou thing about seven , eight foot bloody tall in , in the field right on the Copper Dollar |
| 6 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 7 | Swivel the foot slowly in a circular movement to the right , then to the left . |
| 8 | Ben clenched his teeth then pulled hard on the right-hand oar , turning the prow slowly towards the distant house , the dark , slick-edged blade biting deep into the glaucous , muscular flow as he hauled the boat about in a tight arc . |
| 9 | The subtle and interesting studies of personality in The Heart of Princess Osra and Sophy of Kravonia show what Anthony Hope could do when he decided to shape his fiction wholly round a feminine concept of honour . |
| 10 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 11 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 12 | These US estimates tend to emphasize direct rather than opportunity costs , partly reflecting the lower level of welfare support especially for the higher education of children . |
| 13 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 14 | There had , to be sure , been many cross-border investments , but in the main these were to replace imports and were based on exploiting competitive advantage only within a particular country . |
| 15 | Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) . |
| 16 | Apparently , because my employment had officially been terminated by me , I had arguably made myself voluntarily unemployed and was therefore entitled to benefit money only after a certain period . |
| 17 | At Calvary is found full cleansing for ever through faith alone in the finished work of Christ on the cross . |
| 18 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 19 | The reason for being aware of sexism in language is that it biases experience constantly towards the male sex and gives little or no prominence to the role of women in society . |
| 20 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 21 | Think , instead , of a large population in which there is not much movement , so that individuals tend to resemble their immediate neighbours more than their more distant neighbours , even though there is continuous interbreeding all over the whole area . |
| 22 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 23 | Since the EEC first voted against the imports , in December , West Germany has decided to impose a ban regardless of the final vote . |
| 24 | Should I see my sister alone in a foreign country — blind ? |
| 25 | I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid . |
| 26 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 27 | In 1988 Margaret Thatcher squeezed sight-test charges through Parliament only after a Tory rebellion that shrank her majority by 28 votes . |
| 28 | Ruth gazed past him , over his right shoulder to the yacht with its two beautiful people laughing and sipping champagne together on the upper deck . |
| 29 | A routine change of engine consumables ' : water hoses , fan and pas belts and all filters and throttle cable together with a full service on the rest of the vehicle should see the RR fit for your trip . |
| 30 | This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy . |