Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the best Basque villages , twistier than others in its layout , and the home of the red pepper , a fiery vegetable that now has an annual festival in Espelette in the autumn . |
| 2 | Wayne had his own hot water supply , direct from the gas-fired geyser that also supplied the workshop below . |
| 3 | Comparison of the results of the two groups shown in Fig. 5.7 also allows us to reject an explanation in terms of changes in associability or in terms of the transfer of some specific response that directly modifies test performance . |
| 4 | with black fillings , and long ratty hair that always seemed to be just coming out of a perm . |
| 5 | It 's a narrow rail that sometimes disappears altogether into rough path , and occasionally delights with perfectly intact Indiana Jones-style bridges over gulleys . |
| 6 | The mid seems a little biased towards the upper part of the frequency band and at low level that also adds bite to the top end , creating a good , solid midrange tone . |
| 7 | In other cases , a simple diversion , often involving the use of a private crossing that already belongs to British Rail , could be brought into use to enable people to cross in safety . |
| 8 | Later , while figure-subjects executed in marquetry become more dominant but generally less attractive , it is the ornamental component that again gives most delight . |
| 9 | They see their social life as a struggle for personal dignity in a general social framework that daily denies them this dignity . |
| 10 | He was half-Arab , with a pale olive skin that now gleamed golden in the thin ribbons of light from the half-closed shutters . |
| 11 | We supported their case that the future prosperity of the Valleys depends on healing the scars of the past and building a new industrial and commercial base that actually improves and protects , rather than destroys , the environment . |
| 12 | The best topographic candidates for volcanic activity of Mercury are a handful of small rimless craters and certain ridges that could be solidified lava that once rose from fissures . |
| 13 | Interestingly , it is the semantic anomaly that probably makes this kind of joke far easier to translate from English into another language than the jokes which depend on sound-play or polysemy . |
| 14 | The cultural frontier that here lies between canton Bern and the original Four Forest Cantons has been described thus : " though not a boundary between language groups , it does form a more significant division in everyday affairs , separating one set of customs and traditions from others . " |
| 15 | It was the president 's problems with the old guard that almost led to a challenge to his authority . |
| 16 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 17 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 18 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 19 | Most of our problems were due to weather and poorly functioning equipment : an extended-range Loran that never worked , an ADF that pointed in the wrong direction and a kaput old-fashioned venturi altitude indicator . |
| 20 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 21 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 22 | ‘ Thus the groups countered the social alienation that often divides cancer patients from their well-meaning but anxious family and friends , ’ they write . |
| 23 | ‘ But we are not ready to become a rubber stamp that only certifies the existence of reforms . |
| 24 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 25 | The major duties of the professor will be to pursue his or her own research and to sustain an active research group , whilst acting as a focus for the extensive activity in Theoretical Chemistry that already exists in the Oxford Chemistry School . |
| 26 | This fed directly into the large 40 foot high chimney that formerly graced the mill and of which the lower dressed masonry section remains . |
| 27 | ‘ Ironically , it is an image of a certain British establishment that hardly exists any more . |
| 28 | And it seems to me there is a grave danger that once established as open countryside and in an area in need of protection , it will be heavens only job to move that in future years . |
| 29 | As tall as his father and with the slender , broad-shouldered build of a natural athlete , he had regular features of that open , well-chiselled handsomeness that also suggests unusual strength of character . |
| 30 | Hemichordates are a primitive group that probably share a common ancestor with the chordates ( including vertebrates ) . |