Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 2 | Indeed , there is little point in paying out good money from hard-earned income merely for a name . |
| 3 | On all courses we include a programme of extra-curricular activities either of a tourist nature or professionally orientated . |
| 4 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 5 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 6 | We are not going to push our political advantage home at a moment like this … |
| 7 | On the whole this is a matter of the teacher exercising her professional judgement both as a nurse and a teacher , but there are a variety of ideas available to help her in devising objectives . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the housewife , engaged in her working day , hears a knock on the door and finds a complete stranger there with a clip-board to which is attached a rather large sheet ( or sheets ) of paper covered with duplicated sentences and ominous boxes . |
| 9 | One particular ‘ pair ’ , No. 21 , is a triple cell instead of a double . |
| 10 | However , the evolution of mankind has reached the point where it is better to leave religion behind , for it does comprise ‘ a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality , such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia , in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion ’ . |
| 11 | She tried to make her brain tell her , but it lay frozen in her skull like a woolly mammoth deep in a glacier . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it does seem that there is an impulse of curiosity which can correct the chance relations of internal and external stimuli by choice of a painful experience simply as a means to equalize one 's awareness of the light and the dark . |
| 13 | I almost wish I 'd become a cop-car driver instead of a journalist now ; this is such sweet driving . |
| 14 | The money will help a number of UN-recommended projects worldwide including a soil erosion programme in Bolivia , a women 's tree planting project in Kenya and a clean water campaign in Cambodia . |
| 15 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 16 | There is a very clear pointer here for a change in emphasis from systems development towards people development if the necessary higher standards are to be achieved — but this is another subject . |
| 17 | TOKYO 's stock market continued its free fall yesterday as a wave of late selling wiped out early gains . |
| 18 | 74% took public transport alone as a child . |
| 19 | He said the Queen commented on how different his role was as a genial Englishman abroad in A Year in Provence after Inspector Morse . |
| 20 | For our training purposes we will be presented with a tactical scenario together with a target to try to observe . |
| 21 | And this has been brought about to enhance your safety , not only when you 're at your place of work , but when you 're out and enjoying your social evening either at a theatre , a pub , a club or the cinema or wherever you may be . |
| 22 | The young merchant 's wife , her old husband away at a Guild meeting , had been delighted to see her amorous gallant . |
| 23 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 24 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 25 | CANBERRA RAIDERS arrived at Old Trafford yesterday with a complaint . |
| 26 | Different parties offer different quantities of public goods together with a statement of how the money will be raised through the tax system . |
| 27 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 28 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 29 | Place the blown egg upright on a piece of dough or clay while you decorate it . |
| 30 | Willings Press Guide : this directory includes a fairly comprehensive foreign directory together with a guide to the UK media . |