Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 32 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 33 | eight hours sleep I should think . |
| 34 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 35 | The most striking results were in Moscow , where candidates belonging to an umbrella organization of reformist groups and political clubs calling itself Democratic Russia won 55 of the capital 's 65 Supreme Soviet seats , and in Leningrad , where a comparable organization calling itself Democratic Elections " 90 won 28 of the city 's 34 Supreme Soviet seats ; both organizations also won control of their respective city soviets . |
| 36 | Far from being sport , it 's his job to keep herds in check and make sure these ‘ sportsmen ’ do n't leave an animal wounded and in pain from their hopeless attempts to shoot it , and his respect for living things is acute . |
| 37 | The details are still missing , but the main outlines are becoming clear as United States and European statesmen make their pronouncements and tour the capitals of their Middle Eastern allies in an atmosphere of ever greater confidence . |
| 38 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 39 | Good teachers , they say , need to have the appropriate professional skills to teach their subject ‘ to children of different ages , abilities , aptitudes and backgrounds ’ . |
| 40 | Many voluntary organisations depend heavily on those with technical , secretarial , accountancy , fund-raising , carpentry , building or professional skills giving their advice free of charge . |
| 41 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 42 | This is why it is so vital that the EC 's half-hearted plans to deregulate its airlines after 1992 should be strengthened , not diluted . |
| 43 | It is most commonly apparent where staff are employed to provide night cover only and therefore contracted to work specific hours to provide one , two or three night 's cover per week . |
| 44 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 45 | This sudden use of low notes gives them prominence and unusual power . |
| 46 | UNESCO : What specific proposals have you discussed ? |
| 47 | But small though it is , Barèges was one of the first Pyrenean spas to make its name , mainly because Louis XIV 's sick son was sent there to be treated in the 1670s . |
| 48 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 49 | Her trembling fingers traced his kiss on her lips . |
| 50 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 51 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 52 | Oddly enough , Ghanashyam ( A Broken Branch ) approaches opera in the nature of the story it tells : originating in village festivities , the tale unfolds a rake 's progress towards perdition , in this case via drugs , but with an extra metaphysical twist when the spirit of the departed returns to inhabit his wife . |
| 53 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 54 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 55 | The Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish Economy Ministers had met with their German , Austrian and Swiss counterparts in Salzburg , Austria , on Sept. 14 , the first meeting of its kind , and had been promised that the west European participants were ready to increase efforts to help eastern and central European states to improve their economies . |
| 56 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |
| 57 | All of the patients had undergone extensive investigations to evaluate their intestinal function . |
| 58 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 59 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 60 | The one hundred and fifty minutes has its entertaining chunks but Little Big Man too self-consciously views the past from a modern standpoint ( there is even a gay Red Indian and bluesy music ) , and the demystification of legends , such as Custer , is done in too simplistic a manner , a process Penn had begun in The Left-Handed Gun . |