Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A few minutes out of town there 's a famous Victorian restaurant where unusual dishes of days gone by are served in intimate , candlelit rooms , a medieval moated manor house now a hotel , and lovely country house hotels with excellent restaurants .
2 They occurred in deprived inner city areas where a combination of social problems were concentrated .
3 What my , my honourable friend raises a very interesting point because er when I we studied er the law relating to partnerships one of the basic er er principals was the personal relationship between partners and I 'm bound to say that when one looks at the headed notepaper of these big multi national accountancy firms sometimes the names of which cover most of the letter and there 's very little room in fact left er for the message .
4 Colwyn Bay is also looking to the future with its brand-new Colwyn Centre , a superbly-designed covered shopping complex just a stone 's throw from the promenade and beach .
5 She was just slipping her feet into a pair of low black court shoes when the knock came on the door , and her heart leapt into her throat .
6 When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time .
7 The post-war National Insurance arrangements made it an unattractive proposition for married women , typically low-waged , to opt for paying full National Insurance contributions when a much cheaper ‘ married woman 's option ’ was available .
8 If you only require mono images for eventual in-house mono printing then a video player is quite adequate as VidiPC can capture mono images ‘ on-the-fly ’ .
9 Venture capitalists like to keep close tabs on their investments , going down to the offices of the fledging chief executive officers once a week , putting their feet up on the desk and playing father confessor .
10 One can calculate that in the hot big bang model about a quarter of the protons and neutrons would have been converted into helium nuclei , along with a small amount of heavy hydrogen and other elements .
11 I did not know enough about painting to recognise it , or even guess at its value , but in the present-day crazy art market even a relatively modern painting might well be very valuable , and this one was apparently worth the trouble and risk that Ewen Mackay had taken .
12 Predictably , a modern dynamic range benefits both the thrilling theatre of that invocation ( culminating in a triple forte cry of ‘ Printemps ’ as powerful as anything in The Rite ) , as well as the still calm of Persephone 's spoken lines rolling off the tongue with all the grace and ease exclusive to a native française , in this case Anne Fournet ( daughter of the conductor , Jean Fournet ) .
13 For risks in Northern Ireland and certain other Rating Districts where the experience has been unfavourable the premium increase is higher than elsewhere although it will still be partially offset where the Rating Group of the insured car has been reduced .
14 It was a bright clear spring morning when the boat docked in Rosslare and I disembarked in Eire .
15 She had then come back past the stables to pay a visit to her father 's huge slobbering wolf hounds so the tidy boot prints did n't have a returning track beside them .
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