Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And tomorrow night you are due for nights off ? ’ |
| 2 | To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled . |
| 3 | But I think you 're right about soaps recently getting sidetracked into men and men 's problems . |
| 4 | Yeah , I feel sorry for youngsters today , do n't you ? |
| 5 | Many passengers will be grateful for not having to stop in the vicinity longer than necessary and residents will be grateful for others not wanting to . |
| 6 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 7 | Skilled personnel are sometimes seconded from the West but there is a danger of imposing a Western framework that is totally unsuitable for societies where agriculture rather than industry is the mainstay of the community . |
| 8 | I remember that after being dosed with the concoction — your mouth was dry for hours afterwards . |
| 9 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been acting bloody peculiar for months now . ’ |
| 11 | reasonably clear for parents actually . |
| 12 | All that 's fine with me ; I 've known the bloody thing was wrong for ages anyway . |
| 13 | For example , the specialist Sun Frost range keeps food fresh for weeks rather than days if a power cut occurs . |
| 14 | Entry on that day only is £6 on the gate , free for children under fifteen years of age . |
| 15 | For solitary stones the number of sessions for complete fragmentation was significantly different for stones less than 20 mm versus stones of 20 to 30 mm ( p<0.001 ) or stones >30 mm ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 16 | All other lorries will have to steer clear of streets originally designed for a more traditional form of transport . |
| 17 | Most of the multinationals have steered clear of commitments so far . |
| 18 | I was very open-minded towards drugs then and I would try anything that was going provided that I did n't think it was too dangerous … and I did like to analyse the thing , the substances , through literature . |
| 19 | Once up and running , the equipment was put to the most rigorous of tests almost immediately — catering for a banquet with over 300 guests . |
| 20 | Eleven patients have remained free of stones throughout ; two patients with fragments noted at three months were clear at six months after continued oral bile acid treatment . |
| 21 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
| 22 | Even the most popular of girls soon discovered that in this highly competitive world where models vied with one another for the most glamorous jobs and the wealthiest and best-looking men there was far more bitchiness than in the provinces — and Paula was far from popular . |
| 23 | But , middle-class or not , bereft of ideas maybe , tenacious in power , certainly . |
| 24 | Her sister was fond of animals too , but had never had very much to do with them and had moved away from home just after her eighteenth birthday . |
| 25 | If you are fit , really love testing yourself and are not afraid of heights then do n't miss the Canyon walking excursion into the depths of Martinque 's tropical forest . |
| 26 | There is also a great advantage in regenerating large columes of previously cooked food on high throughout operations only as the demand occurs . |
| 27 | I ca n't see nothing wrong with golliwogs anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know what 's wrong with fellows lately , ’ Anne complained . |
| 29 | The bed , with its cream lace counterpane , was huge and comfortable , and the antique wardrobe , original fireplace and generous sofas piled high with cushions immediately made us feel at home . |
| 30 | Over 30 metres high with walls almost 5 meters thick , it represented a spectacular display of feudal pride by one of the foremost barons of the realm . |