Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 2 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 3 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 4 | Moscow sets terms for unity debate Following are extracts from an address to members of the European Parliament given yesterday by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 5 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 6 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 7 | Her features were well-shaped even so early , and the jaw placed finely on the white neck with its blue flush of springing hair . |
| 8 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 9 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 10 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 11 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 12 | The lady Alianor refers always to the new king thus , thought Joan . |
| 13 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 14 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 15 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 16 | A white T-shirt clung faithfully to the contoured steel of his pectoral muscles . |
| 17 | Because Xtradrive requires a device driver , which means that it is a system level device , bypassing DOS and the BIOS to go straight to the hard disk would result in the swap file not benefiting from compression . |
| 18 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 19 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 20 | The 14 night Sovereign Wildlife Safari drives far across the Kenyan plains , visiting the huge game reserves at Samburu and Maasai Mara . |
| 21 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 22 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 23 | The other , the Left Bank , is open rolling country where sheep graze prosperously on the broad grassy slopes ; valleys are wide , hills less crowded , the cover sparse , and views extensive . |
| 24 | I send minutes laid out in the proper style . |
| 25 | As one seminar is brought to conclusion plans forge ahead for the next and 1992 is no exception . |
| 26 | The Mandera refugee camp sits just inside the Kenyan border with Somalia . |
| 27 | If the disk is preserved A. abyssorum differs further in the naked ventral interradial area and in the coarser scaling of the disk . |
| 28 | Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use . |
| 29 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 30 | because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together |