Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1914 workers suffered from employers ' determination and ability ( in a situation of a plentiful labour supply ) to maintain low money wages regardless of the costs in terms of low productivity and slow adaptation to new technological possibilities . |
| 2 | Flakes of torn skin curl back from the wound like pith on an orange . |
| 3 | This has been taken to mean that teaching children together with the aid of a definite programme to reduce prejudice would not work , thus invalidating any proposed integration of schooling . |
| 4 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 5 | In particular , Bentalls , the big departmental store in Kingston gave its prestigious Wolsey Hall over to a large exhibition lasting a fortnight , covering a great range of subjects including Medau . |
| 6 | For years Caleb conducted his failed building business entirely for the benefit of his assignees , |
| 7 | Lyndon-James says design is well advanced on a 4-megabit chip — the size of the largest DRAM chip currently on the market — and there are plans for 16-megabit chip . |
| 8 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 9 | This old Methodist Church hall is an impressive building with a red and mellow brick facade standing in this pleasant side road close to the heart of Oxford and within easy walking distance of the city centre University and Polytechnic . |
| 10 | The Hotel Seinduin is positioned in a pleasant side street directly behind the seafront and near to the main boulevard of Scheveningen . |
| 11 | Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each term results solely from the simultaneous presence of the others . |
| 12 | The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it . |
| 13 | Another variation on repetitious dieting involves having a liquid protein drink instead of a meal . |
| 14 | More cavalry poured in , from the fields and woods , orchards and farmyards and side-roads , to flood the village centre and drive the surviving enemy skirmishers back down the slope to the river , where most succeeded in wading across to half-frozen safety . |
| 15 | They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house . |
| 16 | I have visited schools where informal methods are practised and in which each teacher has to submit a ‘ projected ’ programme for the coming week to the headteacher on each Friday morning together with an analysis of how closely the current week followed the original forecast . |
| 17 | There is a shop full of wines and souvenirs , and a pleasant picnic spot together with the site of the ‘ Piltdown Man ’ find . |
| 18 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 19 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 20 | Duclos rattled the empty champagne bottle impatiently against the table-top as he picked them up . |
| 21 | There is no cover under this section of the policy if a claim is also made under item 1 of the section which makes payments for delays for every 12 hour period up to the maximum in the policy . |
| 22 | It might even bring British computer people up to the level of their more professional continental opposite numbers . |
| 23 | However , little of this literature bears directly on the case of Creole . |
| 24 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 25 | brown cable snakes in through the hole . |
| 26 | But after the shouting there was nothing to do except drive away , even though there are empty RAF flats just across the road . |
| 27 | It was intended to cover two-thirds of the East German budget deficit up to the end of 1994 . |
| 28 | I believe , and have always believed , that with the Stamford Bridge and Craven Cottage issues out of the way , Cabra ( without soccer-related problems ) will survive and have a viable future . ’ |
| 29 | Standards in this field issues recently by the International Standards Organisation ( ISO ) appear to be using either spelling , depending upon the origin of the draft . |
| 30 | And there were some birds swimming-floating down towards the camera , they were brown . |