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 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 7 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Code of practice : Far-reaching proposals go much further than the code published by national newspapers . |
| 12 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She yelled out loud , then shouted again as strong fingers closed round her arms . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And , as it is also obvious that this tendency is becoming a worldwide one , it means that the game will in due course suffer everywhere as it has suffered in South Africa . |
| 23 | At the appointed time Venturous ' was in position near Nieuport just outside the three mile territorial limit and in due course picked up a small craft leaving the Belgian port . |
| 24 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |
| 25 | Accordingly , continues a note to the accounts , in accordance with s 275 , CA 1985 , the aggregate provision does not fall to be classified as a realised loss and therefore distributable reserves of the company are £12m ( v £81.5m ) . |
| 26 | Although the two Korean states remained technically in a state of war ( the hostilities having been ended in 1953 by an armistice but not a peace treaty ) , many commentators felt that the December agreements laid a realistic foundation for the negotiation of a full peace treaty . |
| 27 | Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools . |
| 28 | In America , 15 jumbo jets are being hired to take 200,000 of the one million advance copies ordered worldwide . |
| 29 | ‘ It will be a pleasant change to do so . ’ |
| 30 | Classic narrative film , said Mulvey , constructs a male viewer by privileging the look of the male protagonist at the woman character(s) : as the camera follows this fictional male gaze so also is the spectator 's look directed at woman as object . |