Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is outstanding for thousands of wigeon , teal , mallards and brent geese , plus oystercatchers , dunlins , curlews and foraging groups of snow buntings . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 3 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 4 | Asleep for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | Asleep for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | I 'll get you 'll have to go just go right to the back just at the back otherwise you 're gon na be flipping through millions of pages . |
| 7 | Lack of rainfall means that they have survived intact for hundreds of years , though they are now being threatened by tourists . |
| 8 | This can be very restrictive , and may be unsuitable for those at work outwith Central Edinburgh , or those tied to the home during the day : |
| 9 | Charles had longed to visit the Basilica in Rome , to see Venice in all its glory ; to walk across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence , virtually unchanged since the sixteenth century , and to visit the villages in the Tuscan hills , intact after hundreds of years . |
| 10 | It is quite wrong for such as Regan to claim that criteria such as these make a mockery of the statutory scrutiny of proposals . |
| 11 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 12 | The shares stand at 65p against a high for 1989 of 127p . |
| 13 | Dock empty for much of case |
| 14 | The expectations of what should be provided , in contrast with what is available , may be painful for some from minority groups . |
| 15 | Perhaps she 'd intrigued him because she had such lovely eyes , unusually blue against the dark hair , and clear and direct like those of Sarah Morey . |
| 16 | In September 1986 the Iranians paid $7 million direct into one of North 's three Swiss bank accounts and North drew out $2 million to pay for 500 TOW missiles that were flown direct from America to Iran ( which shows the true price of TOW missiles compared to what Iran was being charged ) . |
| 17 | The skills of the authorities in responding to stockmarket crashes , the spread of economic weight around the globe , the fact that the economic cycles of Japan and Germany seem unsynchronised with those of America and Britain , the role of taxes and public spending as automatic stabilisers in modern economies — all these are most reassuring . |
| 18 | His own system of classification involved a belief in the objective reality of both species and higher groupings — in fact , a kind of Platonism not so different from that of Forbes and Owen . |
| 19 | Local knowledge can be brought to bear , but only if its possessors share with management a common vision that values contribution of one 's special understanding , particularly when that understanding is different from that of others . |
| 20 | Labov ( 1972b : 73 ) has noted that in New York City the subset of short a items which is liable to tensing and raising is not predictable on phonological grounds , while in Philadelphia the behaviour of the items mad , bad , glad is different from that of others in the a word-class . |
| 21 | The distribution of age , waist-hip ratio , and body mass index of the 30 women lost to follow up was not significantly different from that of women with known outcome ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 22 | Within the Delphi Centre , although it is possible to identify the employment by Roger of a distinctive strategy for resolving the demands that are made of him , it is radically different from that of Owen and the Victoria Centre . |
| 23 | Although the mean maximal acid output of the group of chronic alcoholic patients was no different from that of controls , there was wide variation in the acid output within this group . |
| 24 | It has also been widely observed that the form of intonation is different in different languages ; for example , the intonation of languages such as Swedish , Italian or Hindi is instantly recognisable as being different from that of English . |
| 25 | The alienness of Tolkien 's elves , the thing which makes their whole history different from that of humanity , is obviously that ( in the natural course of things ) they do not die . |
| 26 | The evidence offered by hoards is somewhat different from that of individual finds . |
| 27 | In serum samples from seven patients with colon cancer , the % cytotoxicity was 2.7 ( 1.9 ) % , which was not significantly different from that of serum samples from normal controls . |
| 28 | In the Urals the late Palaeozoic geosyncline persisted through the greater part of the Permian and the Asian record is , on the whole , very different from that of Europe . |
| 29 | The underlying attitude in Whitehall and Washington was not so different from that of Deng Xiaoping : the events of last year had been part of an essentially inscrutable and probably cyclical process which was peculiar to the Chinese . |
| 30 | The Communism in Parma bore , and still bears , very little resemblance to the Communism in other parts of Europe ; in fact it was different from that of Bologna , which is only about eighty kilometres away down the Via Emilia . |