Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 2 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 3 | The solution to these two difficulties was provided by the trust , which at a stroke solved both the problem of third-party involvement and that of enforcement . |
| 4 | Now there are cars parked right the way up and even on to the roundabout , and I think a lot of these erm persons erm with the cars are probably from the Polytechnic . |
| 5 | In the drawing shown here the decision is less obvious . |
| 6 | For a long time the lawyer called almost every day . |
| 7 | ‘ But it is n't , ’ she cried , frantic now as her words brought home the enormity of what was happening . |
| 8 | The programme marked perhaps the beginning of Mrs Whitehouse 's attempts to influence the content of particular programmes . |
| 9 | The monster 's blood burnt away the grass on Dragon 's hill . |
| 10 | ODDEST sight of the week : top Tory ‘ mandarin ’ Allan Clarke giggling at the readers ' tips in Viz : ‘ Taxi drivers , why not pop into your local garage and have your indicators fixed then the rest of us would know where you 're going … |
| 11 | The missionary officers had their groceries delivered twice a week by lorry from the nearest store which was nine or ten miles away . |
| 12 | ‘ The poor little chap had blood taken almost every day — but he never cried , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 13 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 14 | If you have your hair done once a week could you set it yourself and just visit the hairdressers for a cut every two months ? |
| 15 | ‘ We fuel cells have done our best You really put us to the test Exhausted now the charge is done Replace it with another one ’ |
| 16 | From their feet stretched away the plain of shaggy grass , a wild lawn of weeds , buttercups , dandelions and lady 's smock in full bloom . |
| 17 | For this reason , in each of the trials discussed below the window size is varied from 1 to 10 words . |
| 18 | Had Purcell composed only the string parts , leaving the trumpet parts to be added later ? |
| 19 | We have of course got here a speech about a human bond versus a larger loyalty . |
| 20 | Again just two lanes open can slow things and a quick glance elsewhere well no real troubles reported just a look at the A One Stanford still the roadworks on the go there both north and south will slow things down . |
| 21 | Dexter handed across an article dated about a year before from one of the broadsheet newspapers . |
| 22 | Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one . |
| 23 | At that time the houses were scattered and there was no village shop ( the mobile shop called once a week ) , although there was a church and a school . |
| 24 | Mr Plowden added : ‘ Last year 's forecasts of a 66 per cent rise in demand over the next 20 years brought home the enormity of the environmental threat posed by current minerals policy . ’ |
| 25 | The carapace required almost a year to become fully symbiotic with the body — and its owner required purification , distillation in the alembic of combat before his augmented natural body could be judged to be fully transmuted in spirit as well as in flesh and bone , and thus worthy of donning complete Marine armour … |
| 26 | But to many of the naturalists actually involved , the new discoveries required only a revision of traditional ideas rather than a revolution . |
| 27 | What is in issue from the perspective of legitimacy is whether the particular use made of that undoubted constitutional power , the manner of its use , and the justification both for the use and manner of use — that considerations of national security required both a banning of trade unions and no consultation with affected officers before the ban was announced was a fair and reasonable use of power ? |
| 28 | Nevertheless he moved quickly down the corridors — shabby , ill-lit alleyways which , even at this early hour , were busy — knowing that every minute brought closer the chance of Herrick being warned . |
| 29 | The choice of rent structures involved therefore a weighing of the interests of tenants as a whole ( including impoverished tenants ) with those of the general body of ratepayers . |
| 30 | Madame cut short the protest . |