Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb -s] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He occasionally wears gold rimmed spectacles and has a very strong Irish accent . |
| 2 | The engine appears to be in good order having recently had an upper cylinder overhaul and new valves and has a very modest oil consumption . |
| 3 | This view is rooted in the separation of management and education within schools and suggests a greatly increased emphasis upon the former by senior staff . |
| 4 | Fresh goats ' milk cheese is available in many supermarkets and has a slightly sharper flavour than fromage frais . |
| 5 | It has been substantially altered in later periods and has a largely classical , dull exterior . |
| 6 | Legislation in the jurisdictions under consideration inserts extra tiers into the structure of sexual offences and introduces a more graduated scheme of penalties . |
| 7 | He can choose his own projects and lives a very private life . |
| 8 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |
| 9 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 10 | But , despite its politics , Simon 's book cuts a refreshing swathe through some rarely-challenged assumptions and does a rather neat demolition job on the second type of writer on population . |
| 11 | The House can accommodate up to 22 persons and offers a very high standard of comfort . |
| 12 | This metal was specially developed for use in magnetic control systems and amplifiers and has a remarkably rectangular hysteresis loop in which the remanent flux is only 2.6% less than the saturation flux . |
| 13 | Caps are to be awarded but after two Test defeats in New Zealand Fouroux has had a clearout which brings in four newcomers and creates a largely unfamiliar pack designed to take on Australia next month . |
| 14 | Tail first This is the most common landing in the learning stages and provides a much softer option to the flat landing . |
| 15 | The cash transfer does not distort prices and appears a more efficient redistributive instrument . |
| 16 | Rilly produces wines which are appreciably lighter in style than those of neighbouring villages and has an unusually high proportion of Chardonnay for the Montagne de Reims . |
| 17 | As a result of eating the troll flesh he has developed several troll-like traits and has an almost trollish resistance to injury . |
| 18 | The material he donated to the Theatre Collection consists of designs , models , groundplans and technical drawings for productions at all the aforementioned theatres and provides an unusually comprehensive survey of one designer 's work in various spheres . |
| 19 | Complementing our recreational work , this interpretation is particularly suited to dance and fitness studio/leisure centre facilities and plays a very important part in the promotion and furtherance of Medau movement . |
| 20 | In its Report on Sexual Offences , the Canadian Law Reform Commission stated : ‘ The Commission has come to the conclusion that the very use of the word ‘ rape ’ attaches a profound moral stigma to the victims and expresses an essentially irrational folklore about them . ’ |