Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 7 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 8 | That money come out of the bank . |
| 9 | Divisional commandant George Kane said : ‘ Classes can help women be more aware of their surroundings , to know what possible dangers to look out for and to be more confident when out alone . ’ |
| 10 | Divisional commandant George Kane said : ‘ These classes can help women be more aware of their surroundings , to know what possible dangers to look out for and to be more confident when out alone . ’ |
| 11 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 12 | Moving speedily up the Left Bank of the river , General Riemann 's 22nd Reserve Division joined up with von Zwehl 's men , to effect a neat pincer on the French hemmed within the bend of the river at Regneville . |
| 13 | These and other strange phenomena carried on throughout his teens and into his early twenties . |
| 14 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 15 | because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together |
| 16 | Despite widespread agreement that opencast coal mining is among the most environmentally destructive activities carried out in Wales , the Government has until recently tried to increase output from this method . |
| 17 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 18 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 19 | He liked the plain chops and boiled potatoes and greens ; most of all he liked the rice puddings with a well of red jam in the centre and evaporated milk poured on to cool it all . |
| 20 | Clearly , part of that under-reporting comes down to the fear of victimisation . |
| 21 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 22 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 23 | specific rules set out for stock provisioning rather than directors ' estimates . |
| 24 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 25 | Following the conclusion of the Heads of Agreement , we will be available to assist should any issues arise during the due diligence carried out by the acquiror 's accountants . |
| 26 | Why is all that noise going on behind you ? |
| 27 | But something down there was breathing , and the susurrant echoes of that breathing drifted up to them . |
| 28 | That fight turned out to be the fight of the century . |
| 29 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 30 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |