Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | That money come out of the bank . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Clearly , part of that under-reporting comes down to the fear of victimisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Why is all that noise going on behind you ? |
| 14 | But something down there was breathing , and the susurrant echoes of that breathing drifted up to them . |
| 15 | That fight turned out to be the fight of the century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Best hoot of the lot was the gladiatorial look dreamt up for Spurs by Jimmy Jumble . |
| 18 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 19 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 20 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 21 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 22 | Then at last , desperate , Alexandra had leaned towards her nearest neighbour , a pale aristocratic child with thin mouse-coloured hair tied up in blue ribbons and said , meaning only to establish identity , ‘ Who is your father ? ’ |
| 23 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 24 | It informs Flashman of the dire consequences of the club 's financial predicament , recommending that the controversial chairman sells out to a consortium as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 26 | The ace cyclist went along to the Glover 's Lane Surgery in Netherton to start a week of Health Promotion events . |
| 27 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
| 28 | I should have told you that snot comes out of your nose ? ’ |
| 29 | In the following year , indeed , Joan of Arc was captured at Compiègne and in May 1431 , after what was a political trial carried out under ecclesiastical rules , she was condemned and burned at Rouen . |
| 30 | If this bracing action is not achieved at the top of the backswing , it will be caused either by the right foot folding over on its side during the backswing , or the right knee moving out of alignment with the toes , before or when you arrive at the top of the swing . |