Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The devaluation debate also needs careful examination before Labour or Livingstone set off down another dead end .
2 The only reason now , looking at the way knitwear is going or any products going , the only way now that we can get the latest is if we design er oh er design new ideas that are want something fresh or fashion takes over .
3 It is already clear that trusts to hand over objects or to free slaves could be enforced in specie under the auspices of the magistrate whose cognitio was involved .
4 The Abraham narrative has made it abundantly clear that Isaac comes out of God 's bright blue .
5 But it is also clear that Denning started off with a presumption that everyone involved was innocent and that at some stage he had personal doubts as to whether this was indeed so .
6 There were memories which , he suspected , would be even more insistent than Kerrison marking out with his cartilage knife on the milk-white body the long line of the primary incision .
7 She just lay , sore and afraid until Anthony came back .
8 The fresh and crispies went on to receive a great deal more acclaim than The Chorus who were hardly noticed , even within their hometown .
9 With passions running high and reporters running down corridors in search of statements , the sequence of events and their meaning became confused .
10 Tension ran high and fighting broke out among the spectators as well as among the players .
11 Along the entire front the British and French struggled up out of their trenches and advanced in successive waves .
12 Fearon reappeared holding a towel , his black hair glistening wet and rivulets running down his swarthy skin .
13 Freshly-hit racoons look like grounded planes , arms outstretched and tail sticking up with rigor mortis like a fin .
14 I mean all that kid do was scream , scream , scream , scream , I mean Ross was n't the best one to be with , cos he was selfish and of course in Julia 's eyes he never did any wrong but Kerry come off worse all the time and I said childminding is fine and it 's necessary but the people , you know that , that people ca n't know people and Julia was a spoilt brat so
15 He kept clear when Lucy called in , kept his mouth shut unless Jay demanded his wisdom , advice that she would never take .
16 And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly .
17 Recorder Guy Boney , QC , told Arthurs : ‘ Passions run high when marriages break up and children are involved .
18 The office was empty when Jay got in , and she slid her dream onto her desk with a work folder to hide it from Francis 's camp curiosity .
19 The chairs we have now were actually designed with our chat show in mind , not so low that knees come up to chins and reveal too much sock , nor so wide as to encourage fidgeting , with an upright back to prevent slouching , and arm rests to give the nervous something to grip .
20 we had the ch young children then so that erm all in all I am not sorry that things turned out as they did because erm as luck would have it , you know ,
21 Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door .
22 Such an analysis is so extensive that life moves on before the implementation is complete .
23 No sooner was I seated than Reid shouted out , ‘ Bubble and Squeak !
24 Some people say that lurking in its depths is a fish so dangerous that oarsmen venture out at their peril .
25 individual and group check in ;
26 Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery .
27 A great many nurses care for dependent parents or grand-parents , and have to juggle their own personal and family needs around long-term commitments .
28 In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court .
29 I am thirty-eight years old , but the way he went on about my profligacy , short-sightedness and general pansying about made me feel twelve all over again .
30 Renaissance , baroque , rococo and Biedermeier swirled around in our minds as we grew to understand the history of the Habsburg Empire in a tour that was , as far as possible , chronologically arranged .
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