Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce Crosby and still disappointing end to a promising move . |
| 2 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |
| 3 | Breakfast TV programmes aired several segments each — hauling into American homes , via studio and satellite link-ups , The Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil and TODAY royal correspondent Charles Rae . |
| 4 | Apart from the destruction of Catholic chapels and the houses of some Catholics , the riots included the freeing of prisoners from Newgate and other gaols , an attack on the house of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield and even one on the Bank of England . |
| 5 | John Taylor , Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum and Nicholas Reeves , formerly at the B.M. and now Honorary Curator of the present Earl of Carnarvon 's Egyptian collection at Highclere Castle , have brought together objects and documents that trace Howard Carter 's Egyptian career up to 1922 and then follow the archaeologist into his retirement as consultant and dealer and finally death in 1939 . |
| 6 | After answering a few PRS and generally guitar-related questions , a winner will be chosen and that winner will decide , during a phone call to Annapolis to Mr P. R. Smith himself , on exactly what options the prize guitar will incorporate . |
| 7 | But because both CSPs and more general phonological variables are variety-specific , it is difficult to distinguish them clearly enough to apply the taxonomy more generally . |
| 8 | It is difficult to judge how far the views of this anonymous source diverged from the mainstream of Soviet official thought reflected a more conciliatory approach to the Afghan problem among Soviet foreign policy specialists , an approach which is less dogmatic about the nature of the internal regime in Afghanistan and more appreciative of the benefits which the USSR derived from Afghan non-alignment in the past . |
| 9 | Extensively renovated in 1986 , it remains a Leith landmark and the last remaining example of a windmill tower in this area , other than a number of ‘ doocots ’ still dotted around the Lothians and barely recognisable as windmill towers of the past . |
| 10 | PEACE ‘ Free Your Mind ’ ‘ Heavy , slow and groovy , live and direct from Detroit and not one of those formula tunes . ’ |
| 11 | The entrance was in Paynes Hill and doubtless this well designed building had started life as a Merchants house . |
| 12 | Jarrett , who has a personal best of 13.04 , has been summer training in Portugal and already this season he has been timed at 13.33 … if the NIAAF can arrange to bring Jackson along to Belfast , it will be another clash to savour . |
| 13 | Hardy and very attractive . |
| 14 | In March 1940 , Fred , together with some adults , members of the Hechaluz and about twenty children from Bydown and other centres , moved into a house at Braunton , which was also not far from Barnstaple . |
| 15 | India supports the Kabul government , much to the annoyance of Pakistan and most western countries ; but while allowing for the mischievous nature of Mr Gandhi 's remark , they suspect that it is no more than the truth . |
| 16 | It was a Friday and bitterly cold . |
| 17 | At Covent Garden , the Royal Ballet gives five more performances of The Prince Of The Pagodas — tonight , tomorrow and Friday and then next Tuesday and Wednesday . |
| 18 | Debate about the European fossil hominid record has concentrated on the Late Pleistocene interface between Neanderthals and early modern humans in the period between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago ( 40–30 kyr ) . |
| 19 | The United States and most European countries have a specialized riot police force , sometimes referred to as a ‘ third force ’ , which takes over when the ordinary police can not cope , and provides the state with another option before calling in the military . |
| 20 | Some people travelled out of the city to outlying towns and villages in search of provisions , plundering the general stores of Kilsyth and Kilmaurs , Bargeddie , Stepps , Drymen and wherever available transport would take them . |
| 21 | The US government continued to suggest that it was " ready " to start phasing out its Philippines facilities , regarding them as less strategically important in view of the changing international scene , and with alternative sites available in Singapore , Brunei and possibly northern Australia . |
| 22 | Lisa Stansfield and So Natural . |
| 23 | Carolyn Graham 's jazz rhythms are used to tell eight fairy tales which are international favourites among children , such as Rumpelstiltskin and Little Red Riding Hood . |
| 24 | Sometimes there were sandy heaths which looked like parts of Surrey and sometimes massive , sulphurous and heavily polluted industrial plants . |
| 25 | This bargaining process , which is openly practised and tolerated in Seattle and most other United States jurisdictions can result in reduction of the gravity and/or number of charges against an offender ( e.g . |
| 26 | [ For November 1985 conviction of two French agents for bombing and other developments see pp. 34565-68 ; for repatriations of Mafart and Prieur in December 1987 and May 1988 see p. 36295 ; for April 1991 visit to new Zealand by Roland Dumas see p. 38153 ; for July honouring of Mafart and further French nuclear test in Pacific see p. 38345. ] |
| 27 | Green argued that if the principle were extended to all eight counties the RAC would be controlled by the LEAs with a mere three members representing the WEA and only three representing the Cambridge Board with Hickson and Pateman as the committee 's servicing officers . |
| 28 | I thought of other things ; a fast hockey-match , an adventure story , the problems in a game of chess , a field of snowdrops and crocus in springtime , the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven and as many other happy subjects as I could conjure up . |
| 29 | All I did , all me and my mate did was sit there all day Sun Saturday and just fucking veg out in front of the telly . |
| 30 | I listened to 6 sports reports on Saturday and not one of them mentioned who scored for Leeds . |