Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starlings and a wide range of plants from the Mediterranean ( some introduced for ornament , some escaping as weeds from agricultural crops ) have made deep inroads into the native animals and plants of North America . |
| 2 | My own autograph hunting was conducted with boyish enthusiasm at Trent Bridge in the late 19920s and early 30s and began in inauspicious circumstances . |
| 3 | In these pulsars , γ -ray emission accounts for as much as 1% of the total neutron star spin-down energy , much more than emerges at optical or radio frequencies , so study of this emission is important in understanding pulsar emission and evolution . |
| 4 | Even when the contribution of 1200mJy from all small-diameter sources in the field is included , the total seen by MOST at 843MHz is only 4.5Jy , much less than observed by filled-aperture telescopes . |
| 5 | square planar as opposed to tetrahedral four-coordinate carbon ; |
| 6 | Next time we shall make it right to left Tory and left to right Labour . |
| 7 | Under these circumstances bood sizes would be expected to be low and behavioural traits to emphasize careful and effective rearing and foraging under difficult circumstances . |
| 8 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 9 | My mental eye , rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind , could now distinguish larger structures , of manifold conformation ; long rows , sometimes more closely fitted together ; all twining and twisting in snakelike motion . |
| 10 | Beyond the seven or eight tents and caravans , the camp ponies grazed , all piebald or skewbald with vivid white patches . |
| 11 | It was a room of modest proportions , all of which seemed to curve comfortably inwards like the lines of a shell towards the central and most prominent feature — a splendid and remarkable cot , wonderfully sumptuous , all frilled and canopied in white lace . |
| 12 | a blockage a significant blockage on the A sixty one increase journey times or reduce journey times on the A sixty one as opposed to southern bypass and A one . |
| 13 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
| 14 | The Society for the Suppression of Vice was born again in the Festival of Light , but its modern victims were to prove as incorrigible as those jailed and vilified by moral guardians of the past . |
| 15 | There is a case to be made for those starving and living in cardboard boxes just around the corner — |
| 16 | For the French , under little or no pressure it was back-to-business as a display of clinical finishing when faced with feeble tackling lead to a record score . |
| 17 | The van had been stolen the day before , resprayed a nondescript grey overnight and fitted with false numberplates obtained from two separate sources . |
| 18 | Kath Manson is eighty five and suffers from severe arthritis . |
| 19 | The colours range from brown to black and pink salmon-beige and alternate in large bands running from top to bottom . |
| 20 | Crystallizable polymers consist of a mass of tiny crystals , usually mis-oriented with respect to one another and embedded in non-crystalline material . |
| 21 | She came to London from LA in the mid Eighties and sang with various groups , including satirical rap outfit The Ghastly Girls . |
| 22 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 23 | The Victorian bath was painted Angela 's beloved blue and fitted with antique taps found in the Old Kent Road . |
| 24 | Files which before the war were lucid and precise , with everything stated simply in model letters and reports , become in the fifties and sixties thin and skimped with occasional notes ‘ for the file ’ covering actions taken after lengthy phone calls in which the actual decisions were made . |
| 25 | A compromise agreement between the opposition and the leadership , reported on April 22 on Tajik radio , met some of the opposition 's demands , including representation on the Constitutional Commission , investigation of Ikramov 's and Navjuvanov 's cases and discussion of a motion put forward on April 13 by the Gorny Badakhshan autonomous oblast ( region ) Supreme Soviet and prompted by local demonstrations , to upgrade the region into the Badakhshan Autonomous Republic . |
| 26 | What it 's like : zipped , quilted changing bag with detachable shoulder strap and two wide outer pockets ; one for separate changing mat , the other zipped and labelled for grubby stuff ; bottle pockets at either end , lined interior with see-through pockets and motif with squeaker on outside . |
| 27 | Offences such as reckless driving and driving without due care and attention etc. contrary to Road Traffic Act 1988 sections 2 and 3 respectively can also be considered . |
| 28 | Steven Welsh , 21 , of Newholme Crescent , Evenwood , appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with careless driving and driving without proper insurance . |