Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence . |
| 2 | Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society . |
| 3 | a system designed for a specific user and to work as an integrated unit . |
| 4 | It was not just economic weakness that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 6 | Another important purpose was to use the village Soviets as gates through which peasants would enter into wider administrative experience and escape from the stifling parochialism of the mir and the skhod . |
| 7 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 8 | The news is up-to-the-minute snippets tom from the agency printers , hastily rewritten by junior sub-editors and thrust under the disc jockey 's nose . |
| 9 | Some further evidence of the complexities involved in handling the problems of the relationship between social and economic change and change in the family comes from accounts of the way in which families handle problems of migration in societies undergoing processes of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 10 | It leads unerringly over an intervening ridge and descends to the A.82 at the head of Glen Coe , providing excellent views throughout . |
| 11 | Seminar participants agreed that communication — including the ability to listen and hear , as well as to inform — is a key element in the struggle to overcome political apathy and to advance on the road to democracy . |
| 12 | Did you hear any strange groans and creaks in the night . ’ |
| 13 | A strong infusion made with 50g/ 2oz hyssop to 600ml/1 pint/2/½ cups of water makes an excellent home remedy for sore throats when used as a gargle . |
| 14 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 15 | I should have realised that from the fact that Micky said ‘ Oh Lord ’ — an expression , incidentally , that was n't in the script of the play and that he had never used in his life — before he turned round from the Hooded Owl and looked into the wings . |
| 16 | Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant . |
| 17 | They were breeding in huge numbers in all the hollows of the tall eucalypti that grew on the banks of the Mokai , and fed in flocks of many hundreds upon the grass seeds on the plains , descending in great noisy crowds on the pools by Gould 's tents to drink . |
| 18 | We can look on stressed syllables as occurring against a ‘ background ’ of these weak syllables , so that their prominence is increased by contrast with these background qualities . |
| 19 | I have complete faith and trust in the universe . |
| 20 | Just as the dominions of Canada , Australia and New Zealand were able to conduct their own economic policies while belonging to the sterling area — having their own Chancellors of the Exchequer operating their own fiscal policies , and raising their own tax revenues — so Britain will retain a wide freedom of action , while enjoying the benefit of belonging to a currency and economy underpinned by what will undoubtedly be the strongest currency in the world . |
| 21 | Although broader than the days when Lord Rothschild described it as populated entirely by men who ‘ are aged fifty-three , live in the South East , have the right accent and belong to the Reform Club ’ , it is hardly representative of the population as a whole . |
| 22 | That is its sole function as prescribed by the Statutes , though membership of Convocation also carries with it certain privileges , such as use of the University Library . |
| 23 | Fat couples in vacation plaids , bouncing about like toddlers in the low g and cooing over the moondirt souvenir jewellery . |
| 24 | A project on technical change and subcontracting in the UK and Japan has started . |
| 25 | Unlike the movement for judicial reform , which owed much to the right of the political spectrum but finished on the left , the government 's attitude towards freedom of the press began by reflecting the views of the left of the political spectrum but finished on the right . |
| 26 | Unlike the movement for judicial reform , which owed much to the right of the political spectrum but finished on the left , the government 's attitude towards freedom of the press began by reflecting the views of the left of the political spectrum but finished on the right . |
| 27 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 28 | No more than a couple of good songs and much sub-Jagger ligging and leering with the Rats ; Do They Know It 's Christmas ? ; a mediocre first solo album ; and there the list peters out . |
| 29 | This is followed by a summer vacation course , after which the students can normally join the second-year course and graduate in the usual way at the end of four years . |
| 30 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |