Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they are now going to extremes and breeding the traditional British breeds to be veritable giants at two years old , turning Herefords into red and white Charolais … |
| 2 | His fourth wicket was captain Javed Miandad , caught behind by Junior Murray for two . |
| 3 | A more typical , fairly niche campaign burst would achieve coverage of perhaps 70 per cent , spread over 30 spots and yielding total TVRs of some 150–200 . |
| 4 | Sequestered within were Pet Shop Boys NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE — who earlier had the hair-raising experience of being mobbed in the cinema by ticket-buying fans who , in their rush to obtain autographs with menaces , completely ignored a squirming BARNEY from NEW ORDER/ELECTRONIC who was sat next to them at the time . |
| 5 | On 20 minutes Darlington found themselves two down when Heath , returning to the club , put Biggins through again and he shrugged off two challenges before beating the helpless Prudhoe from six yards . |
| 6 | She was used to driving the luxurious Saab by this time , although at first the responsibility had unnerved her considerably . |
| 7 | MAFIA BEWARE SLIM JIM IN FULL MOBSTER STYLE PLANS ANOTHER ESCAPADE |
| 8 | Pure Class have specialized in restoring Jensens for 4 years . |
| 9 | Similarly , and rather hauntingly , in 2492 the Coen Brothers ' Miller 's Crossing of 1991 and Raoul Walsh 's High Sierra of 1941 are likely to strike all but the specialized eye as absolutely contemporaneous . |
| 10 | Surely this must be the elusive Jim at last ? |
| 11 | He supposed it was somewhere under the rug , perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter . |
| 12 | He got back to Old Jewry at four o'clock , to find Morton waiting for him . |
| 13 | Time alone will tell whether these initiatives will significantly add to the drive towards improved VFM in central government , or , as so often in the past , will in the end have little effect . |
| 14 | Tony Armatrading rushes to the rescue as a modern-day Lancelot in this allegoric story — orginally a diatribe against Stalin and Hitler — about the forces of good and evil . |
| 15 | Stewart , who is retiring after guiding England for six years , watched four players who owe much to him play key roles . |
| 16 | I dusted off the cobwebs from good old Stalin On Pop Music ( Icepick University Press , 1979 ) , always the perfect volume for settling arguments of this type . |
| 17 | That echoes a dream even nearer to his heart , perhaps , than Christian myth : a rural , unviolated England of cherished corners and familiar food and drink . |
| 18 | Dip shelled Brazils in melted chocolate and allow set . |
| 19 | , John ( 1605–1671 ) , encyclopaedist , baptized 26 September 1605 in Ickleton , Cambridgeshire , was the eldest son of John Swan , vicar of nearby Sawston from 1600 to 1639 , and his wife Sarah , daughter of Thomas Adams of Wisbech . |
| 20 | Today 's share prices : Abbey National down two at two two eight , British Aerospace down twenty two at five three seven , British Airways down three at a hundred and forty one , British Gas went down four point five at two two seven point five , British Telecom down six point five at two hundred and eighty four , Goodhead Publishing Group stayed at sixty , Metalbox down fifty to one O O seven five , Morland Brewers unchanged at two hundred and seventy , Oxford Instruments went down four to two three three , Thames Water was down five at two two nine and the Trustee Savings Bank went down one to a hundred and thirty seven . |
| 21 | Amongst the major shares , Abbey National are down 1 at 212 , and as I 've just mentioned , British Aerospace went down 12 to 541 , British Airways were down 2 at 158 , British Gas were down 2 at 217 , British Steel down 2 at 119 , British Telecom down 9 at 276 , Rolls Royce down 5 to 175 and T S B down 2 at 119 . |
| 22 | Today 's share prices : Abbey National up one at one nine seven , British Aerospace up nineteen at five six three , British Airways up three at one four eight , British Gas up four at two one O point five British Telecom up four at two six eight , Goodhead Publishing Group remained at five , at fifty-eight , Moreland Brewers up two at two seven five , Oxford Instruments remained at two three four , Thames Water are up two point five at two one nine , Trustee Savings Bank up point five at one twenty and today 's major stockmarket movers : Reuters went up forty-four to seven eight eight and Glaxo up twenty seven at seven five seven . |
| 23 | and they had joined British Telecom at twenty , |
| 24 | It was protesting about the proposed sale of British Telecom to private industry and the threatened guillotine on the committee stage of the Bill . |
| 25 | For instance , when the government sold British Telecom to private shareholders in 1984 , it set up the Office of Telecommunications as the regulatory agency and limited the permitted rise in telephone charges to 3 per cent below the rate of inflation . |
| 26 | High Tech Alarm Systems supplied free of charge by British Telecom to some 250 homes in the Clovenstone area . |
| 27 | AT&T complains that US carriers wanting to enter the UK market not only have to invest substantial time and money in building their own networks , but also have no alternative but to negotiate with British Telecom for local access to customers . |
| 28 | THOSE who are struck all of a heap when faced with a bill from British Telecom for some trifling work carried out in their homes may like to know that there is a Telecom instruction sheet about charges . |
| 29 | This has not prevented a number of very successful examples in recent years : Fry and Laurie for the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , Hale and Pace for Clorets , and — more surprisingly — Dudley Moore for Tesco are just a few examples , while Maureen Lipman 's ‘ Beattie ’ character practically became British Telecom for several years . |
| 30 | The second round draw is : Crewe Utd v 1st Bangor ; RUC v Dervock ; Downshire YM v Linfield Swifts ; Dromora Village v Bangor Res ; Carrick Ranges Res v Drumaness ; Donegal Celtic v Dundela ; Ballymoney Utd v Glebe Rangers ; Northern Telecom v Enkalon ; Orangefield or Cliftonville Olympic v Larne Tech OB ; Donard Hospital v Dundonald ; Killyleagh v East Belfast ; Connor v Comber Rec ; Ballynahinch v H & W Sports ; British Telecom v 1st Liverpool ; Kilmore Rec v Crusaders Res ; Saintfield Utd v Ards Rangers . |