Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 2 | A useful feature of such dynamic spectra is the isosbestic point , which is a point where the total absorbance does not change with time , although the absorbances at points on either side do change as the concentrations of reagents and products evolve . |
| 3 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 4 | Firstly , the council had a large Labour majority with political decision making often restricted to the Labour group and with little debate in committees . |
| 5 | Some of the more advanced authorities have already developed a career structure for care managers — a model which could prove a pointer for the rest of the country . |
| 6 | That stereotype speaks less for women 's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence , a social nuisance . |
| 7 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
| 8 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 9 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 10 | If one of the ordinary 16 O atoms in KNO 3 is replaced by a heavier 18 O atom , all the molecular vibrations involving that atom slow down , changing the IR spectrum . |
| 11 | ‘ That atom bomb down there , the one that goes tick … tick … tick . |
| 12 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 13 | The third moment of situational change begins sometime after the Second World War — most strikingly with the advent of rock 'n' roll — and can be termed the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ . |
| 14 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 15 | The main spasm of the Alpine orogeny came in Oligocene and early Miocene times , with the African plate grinding against Europe and the alpine chains spreading out to north and south like an opening fan . |
| 16 | Code of practice : Far-reaching proposals go much further than the code published by national newspapers . |
| 17 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 18 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 19 | The lower frequencies penetrate further , scanning a wider area , while the higher frequencies bounce off very small objects . |
| 20 | It seduced his imagination : woolly wisps streaming past told him nothing ; he could be flying into a mountainside … or diving … or two seconds away from a collision … |
| 21 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 22 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 23 | She almost wept with relief as his strong fingers closed round her hand and guided her to the safety of a broad platform of stone , where at last it was possible to stand upright . |
| 24 | She yelled out loud , then shouted again as strong fingers closed round her arms . |
| 25 | Strong fingers clamped brutally around her wrist , staying her action , and she was swung roughly about to meet the hard , questioning glare of one of Matilda 's Angevin guards . |
| 26 | Early government line , from Michael Portillo , the Treasury chief secretary , to Widdecombe , was that there was categorically no special help and that price rises would ‘ by the normal route feed through into the retail price index ’ . |
| 27 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 28 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 29 | Its President , Igor Smirnov [ see p. 38657 for his election ] , said in an interview on March 30 that reunification had effectively already begun , and that the Dnestr Republic favoured a federative structure with Moldova , not complete separatism . |
| 30 | Bernard declared ‘ No Smoking ’ throughout ; but Laura , pragmatic as ever , rather than countermanding him , simply had fifty ashtrays placed strategically around the château . |