Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 2 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 3 | This comes with one or more switches on the same ‘ plate ’ , operating different lights . |
| 4 | Confusion is not always avoided : the two wheels here are probably near and far wheels of a two-wheeled chariot , but in some cases rather the two near wheels of a four-wheeled cart . |
| 5 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 6 | Consequently , those British cities and towns which have large numbers of people using injectable drugs may be among the first to experience full-blown AIDS/HIV epidemics , not just because needle-sharing can spread the virus between drug users , but because infected drug users-particularly the young and single-are likely to spread the virus to the wider population through sexual contacts . |
| 7 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 8 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 9 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 10 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 11 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 12 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 13 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 14 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 15 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 16 | However , as we might expect , their mechanical behaviour and especially their swelling in water and the relation between their temperature and moisture content and their strength , differ only in detail and present much the same general picture . |
| 17 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 18 | Each couple was like a parody of the other , their attitudes much the same . |
| 19 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 20 | As the circle is turned from the frontal plane 75° , 60° , 45° etc to the CVR so the minor axis becomes shorter . |
| 21 | In the Bundesrat only the SPD-led governments of Lower Saxony and Saarland voted against . |
| 22 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |
| 23 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 24 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 25 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 26 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 27 | It would require his more frequent presence in the constituency , presence all the harder to contrive of course in proportion to distance from Westminster . |
| 28 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 29 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 30 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |