Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His former manager Jimmy Lumsden admitted that only Dziekanowski 's reputation for the high life enabled City to snap up the ball-playing genius from Celtic for a bargain £250,000 . |
| 2 | The secret of good , smooth surface finishes , particularly with polishing by hand , is careful washing and complete removal of abrasive from both specimen and lap before moving on to finer grades . |
| 3 | It released Strachan for a pull-back that Wallace switched from right foot to left before beating the sluggish Beasant with a mis-hit shot into the bottom corner . |
| 4 | SIR Allen Sheppard , chairman of Grand Metropolitan , is taking direct action against the Financial Times for its controversial support of Labour on polling day . |
| 5 | It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students . |
| 6 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |
| 7 | Besides which , sympathy was not the feeling this potently masculine man she was sharing this canoe with stirred in her . |
| 8 | But over the years , Joe 's tragic-comic character has been tamed by Ramsay Street , progressing from a down-to-earth bit of rough to a civilised dad and owner of golden labrador Bouncer . |
| 9 | At that stage there appeared a good chance that the election would lead to a hung parliament with Labour in charge — and that was judged the worst possible outcome for shares . |
| 10 | There was a quickened magnificence about him , Nicandra , back from the ballroom , thought , as she had thought once before when he came riding towards her through a spring morning , transformed from little Dada into some kind of royal in his own right . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if I was on a picket line or somewhere , I could give him a pretty hard old shove without pulled in , I would imagine . |
| 12 | Local councils like Mid-Glamorgan have been presenting plans to British Rail for close on two decades . |
| 13 | The results for Drouot salerooms for the first six months of 1992 proved to be almost ten per cent down on those of 1991 , a clear case of bad to worse which the Paris auctioneers said showed the art market had ‘ stabilised ’ . |
| 14 | Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’ |
| 15 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 16 | In some respects this is good when it means such topics as non-aqueous solvents are covered , but bad when the reader searches this chapter in vain for information about new solvents . |
| 17 | This attitude in evident in Turquand v Marshall , for example , where Lord Hatherley stated that ‘ however ridiculous and absurd [ the directors ' ] conduct may seem , it was the misfortune of the company ’ that it had chosen them . |
| 18 | Tickell in his papers on the pastoral recommended ‘ … this our Island as a proper Scene for Pastoral under certain Regulations … ’ |
| 19 | I 'll never forget old , about two days I 'd been there , and I 'm going across the square and I see this bloke with sombreal on , so I did flung him up a salute cos that was wrong , he says come here |
| 20 | The dualist ( I am here thinking primarily of the Cartesian type of dualism ) insists on the ontological separation of physical from nonphysical phenomena and is led to postulate a non-physical subject distinct from the body in an effort to explain the meaning of experience ascriptions . |
| 21 | Why risk the possibility that the invariably expensive instrument may be ‘ not quite what you wanted ’ , and thus face the steep depreciation between brand-new to second-hand common to all custom-built guitars , when modern ‘ copy ’ guitars are so good and so cheap ? |
| 22 | At the Novello ceremony , Mr May also accepted an award for the best television commercial theme for Driven By You , written for Ford . |
| 23 | Edward had created a further group of dispossessed by his readiness to manipulate property descents , either to endow his family or to advance the creation of regional hegemonies for trusted supporters . |
| 24 | Edward had created a further group of dispossessed by his readiness to manipulate property descents , either to endow his family or to advance the creation of regional hegemonies for trusted supporters . |
| 25 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 26 | It 's not quite the smallest of all the seeds , but nevertheless it 's small enough to make a proverbial point like tall as a house , or small as a mouse , small as a grain of mustard seed . |
| 27 | The demands of running the company today always seem paramount , and have the added advantage that one is working from one 's direct experience and not having to indulge in the extremely difficult and risky business of projecting into the future . |
| 28 | There then follows a ‘ Spanish Inquisition ’ procedure at which individual cuts and new schemes are considered on a one-off basis in private by a small group of senior politicians . |
| 29 | The purchaser will incorporate an express right of set-off in the sale agreement . |
| 30 | Can I just express my e concern that erm Mr is using this examination in public as a an opportunity to knock other schemes in the Greater York area . |