Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the pressure and tension of the courtroom very difficult to get out of my system . ’ |
| 2 | Those three elements now all come out of the same fund , with discretion in the hands of the FHSA to use the fund for any one of those three purposes , but with a clear steer that the amount for the current year should be roughly £20 million , which my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 3 | A cat completely white stared back at him . |
| 4 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 5 | Do Protestants or Catholics achieve more in the educational system , for example ; or are Catholics more likely to end up in prison than Protestants ? |
| 6 | BATTLE-WEARY British pilots too scared to fight on in the Gulf War were secretly replaced , Whitehall admitted last night . |
| 7 | Stephen , 28 , said afterwards : ‘ The Customs officers jumped a mile when Lucky peeped out of the box — their faces were a treat . ’ |
| 8 | A common cause of incontinence at night is a mild sedative , which makes the person too sleepy to get out of bed . |
| 9 | Here is another equation , We wish to find what number I stands for , unc We have now " solved the equation " for You may well be thinking that all this working out is not needed since you can work out the answer in your head Very soon though you will be given problems too difficult to work out in your head , At that time you will have to use the method you re practising now , |
| 10 | Snuff are what the Manics sneeringly refer to as ‘ a T-shirt band ’ — meaning a group of young southern Englishmen forever willing to amble about in Transit van land and getting the occasional play on rubbish indie radio shows that nobody with any taste listens to . |
| 11 | With loan rates virtually certain to move up over the next month to around 14.75 per cent , a line of credit fixed at 12.95 per cent suddenly seems rather attractive . |
| 12 | During the 1980s , there has been a slight increase in the percentages of young people over 16 staying on at school , as Figure 11.2 shows ( see also Chapter 5 , Figure 5.19 and Chapter 12 , Figure 12.5 ) . |
| 13 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 14 | Make your windows as difficult to break in to as possible . |
| 15 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 16 | He was finding Reason rather difficult to hold on to . |
| 17 | The FT-SE 100 index of leading shares dropped 42 points to 2,270 on the announcement of the base rate increase to 15 per cent , but rallied and closed on Thursday only 30.5 points off at 2,281.6 . |
| 18 | I think Dickens heavily relies on coincidence though , and it is in fact an incredible coincidence that the main characters of the book mainly all turn out to be related to one another , although they do n't know it . |
| 19 | There is in the end very little to rejoice over in this chapter . |
| 20 | In fact I found Shakespeare very difficult to get on with and was n't at all sure that I wanted to . |
| 21 | But Lydia had discovered , to her own surprise , that she found the matter too significant to quarrel about in a childish way . |
| 22 | He was said to have caused an inordinate number of retakes when unable to keep up with fellow Afghans in an attack scene . |
| 23 | The alternative is to lift the ban on supplying weapons to Bosnia 's Muslims , the main victims of the war and the ones most likely to fight back against the Serbs effectively . |
| 24 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 25 | Made Orcadians very reluctant to speak up in public ? |
| 26 | The Outlaw Posse 's Tizer-sponsored under 18s kicks off at Brighton 's Zap Club on June 1 , then travels to Manchester Konspiracy ( 9 ) , Birmingham Hummingbird ( 10 ) and London Fridge ( 23 ) |
| 27 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 28 | The presidential year does cost the individual money ; if it is decided that one 's partner goes to dinners then this comes out of the individual 's pocket and is not subsidised , at least in my case , by anyone else , and it is entirely a matter of personal choice as to how this part of the arrangements is made . |
| 29 | You had a bath , and some time around ten-thirty went down to the kitchen wearing your dressing-gown and slippers to make yourself a mug of Ovaltine . |