Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum penalty for the offence is now three years ’ imprisonment or a fine , or on summary conviction , imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine up to the statutory maximum . |
| 2 | If this trend continues , Hong Kong could lose 750,000 or more of its better-qualified people , leaving behind a sandwich-society with capital on top , unskilled workers beneath , but little or no middle-class in between . |
| 3 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 4 | Midford Castle is a celebration of that card , for it is built to the same shape , with two rounded leaves of the trefoil facing out across the valley over Cane Brook and Midford Brook , and the third out to the back . |
| 5 | I buy one of the newspapers for its financial pages , another for its news coverage , especially its sport , and the third out of loyalty to my favourite golf correspondent , Toby Greenslade . |
| 6 | Their London bureau chief Ian Todd says : ‘ One race could be in the United States , one in Europe and the third out in Japan , where they absolutely idolise the speed merchants . |
| 7 | It may reach the sixth magnitude by December 10 and the fourth on about December 20 when it moves inside Mercury 's orbit and passes the star Zeta Ophiuchi . |
| 8 | It may reach the sixth magnitude by December 10 and the fourth on about December 20 when it moves inside Mercury 's orbit and passes the star Zeta Ophiuchi . |
| 9 | So a swim and a cool down in the afternoon is the order of the day . |
| 10 | Now what 's the chance , that we 'll get a blue out of the first bag , and a blue out of the second bag ? |
| 11 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 12 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 13 | As she only had one lead rope , Perdita had to walk both ponies the mile and a half back to Robinsgrove . |
| 14 | There had been weakened competitiveness , endemic balance-of-payments problems , cyclical stop — go movements in the economy , and a falling off of the rate of capital accumulation . |
| 15 | She did get a few out of one bag and a few out of another . |
| 16 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 17 | With three overs left 35 were still needed ; Walsh was duly hammered for 16 , all but one to Lamb , but the penultimate over from Patterson yielded only six . |