Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laughed , a warm , comfortable sound that reminded her of homely , rustic things like sleek cattle and woolly sheep grazing on a West Country hillside . |
| 2 | Some in due course opt for a diploma programme . |
| 3 | In spite of his breakdowns , Hoccleve achieved a position of seniority and in due course retired with a pension . |
| 4 | The solid bark parted like a mist , closed like a clam . |
| 5 | The intact skin acts as a barrier between the internal and the external environment which contains many potentially harmful agents . |
| 6 | In this chapter we examine a number of different forms of short-term contract working in a number of different sectors . |
| 7 | VOLUNTEERS at an historic fort were yesterday assessing the cost of extensive damage caused during a burglary . |
| 8 | Table 13 outlines the actions farmers thought they would take in the event of political or economic change leading to a drop in farm returns . |
| 9 | Isolated for long periods amongst little-known peoples , our sole defence lay in a sort of encounter therapy , a complete vulnerability to our hosts ' ways of being and seeing . |
| 10 | It was between Peter Unsworth 's ‘ Escape ’ , a print of a volcanic geyser erupting behind a climber scrambling out of the crater and A D Nicoll 's haunting picture of ‘ Footprints ’ disappearing over pristine sand dunes towards distant , mysterious mountains . |
| 11 | A narrow majority voted for a ban in parks and open spaces … but moves to make tenants conform to the ban as well were defeated by three votes . |
| 12 | Within 2.5km ( 1½ miles ) the road forks and the right-hand branch dips across a hollow towards Schwendi ; but continue forward , climbing on the left-hand ( main ) road which ascends towards Goldiwil at a higher level with even more rewarding views . |
| 13 | A traditional critic may be a practising artist ; if so , there is an excellent chance that any technical assessment included in a piece of criticism will be thorough . |
| 14 | This is the beginning of the classic route to follow on a walking tour of Zurich , starting from the main railway station through the sophisticated poise of the Bahnhofstrasse and branching off for the Lindenhof . |
| 15 | This notable agreement between men who might be supposed to represent the opposite poles of economic ideology came on a day when Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov disclosed grim new evidence of wage inflation here , and Dr Alan Greenspan , the visiting chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board , wound up three days of discussions with Soviet ministers , bankers and economists . |
| 16 | The backdrop of rural discontent kept at a minimum the government 's tolerance level for criticism and signs of independent organization in the cities . |
| 17 | There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone 's throw of her own modest establishment . |
| 18 | This tough and challenging rural course finishes with a series of hills , which seem to grow steeper and more demanding as the time to challenge them comes around . |
| 19 | For example , the tumour yields in the dimethylhydrazine group and the dimethylhydrazine plus small bowel resection plus calcium group were very similar but the distal colonic CCPR differed by a factor of ×2 . |
| 20 | A total of 49 left-wing political prisoners escaped from a Santiago prison on Jan. 30 , 1990 , through a tunnel which they had constructed . |
| 21 | They show how important it is to consider the objectively quantifiable support provided within a relationship during a crisis . |
| 22 | In that case , the plaintiff was a professional footballer registered with a league club , Newcastle United . |
| 23 | Friesian bulls cleared to a top of £128 back to £80 . |
| 24 | However , the environment of professional standard-setting changed as a result of the inception of the Accounting Standards Committee ( ASC ) . |
| 25 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 26 | Gavoty knew Honegger and had discussed with him this astonishing work — ‘ a drama in three acts , a formless prayer articulated by a world in turmoil' — which Honegger had written in the winter of 1945–6 . |
| 27 | Both were hard ridden but neither flinched , and throughout the final hundred yards Commanche Run kept just ahead of his persistent challenger to prevail by a neck . |
| 28 | Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel . |
| 29 | In addition , this article addresses the problematic notion of character " development " and argues that this may be accounted for in terms of a change in the conversational strategies used by a character , from which changes in attitude are inferable . |
| 30 | Angry telephone calls followed and a strong case made for a review of Japanese regulations . |