Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [that] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 2 | A glance to seaward revealed a sight that never ceases to amaze us : the dramatic change from a deep ultramarine blue to the most glorious translucent light blue that occurs in these waters at around 100ft ( 30m ) . |
| 3 | Will your cooker stand the strain of the festive season and all the extra entertaining that comes with it ? |
| 4 | The quantity of water raised from the lower to the higher level will on the average equal that lowered from the higher to the lower level so that there will be practically no loss of water by lockage and as the vessels transported by the lifts are waterborne the weight of the load carried by the dock is always the same whether the vessel be loaded or not and whether the dock contains a vessel or not . |
| 5 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 6 | For example , imagine a locked safe that has to be opened with a crowbar . |
| 7 | He was confronted by one rearing sheepfold that loomed in silhouette , a black triangle . |
| 8 | Once again , it is generally understood and accepted that the weapons prohibited are not limited to those specifically mentioned in this Protocol or any other treaty , but extend to all those that come under this description or have this effect . |
| 9 | No policemen had been sent to intercept Adam , unless of course they were in plain clothes — those two that looked like businessmen , for instance . |
| 10 | Produces an immediate high that lasts for about ten minutes followed by a deep low and often instant addiction |
| 11 | A stout man in sober grey that contrasted with his many-coloured face and cheerful manner , leaned towards the Captain . |
| 12 | In these analyses , I have clearly stressed the affiliative , dependent , nurturant , accommodative , non-competitive aspects of Semai society , culture , and character over other aspects , because these seemed particularly relevant as factors in the complex psycho-cultural dynamic that contributes to the Semai abhorrence of overt conflict and violence . |
| 13 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 14 | Eight hundred That looked like a one then . |
| 15 | Mr Symington 's campaign was mildly cleaner until a recent commercial that finished with a picture of Mr Goddard being locked behind bars . |
| 16 | By 1837 all that survived of the house were the garden and the avenue . |
| 17 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 18 | The Red Sea came into view in the late afternoon , an intense blue that washed along the flat desert shore in a long line of white . |