Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These and other strange phenomena carried on throughout his teens and into his early twenties . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | specific rules set out for stock provisioning rather than directors ' estimates . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Suddenly , blood sacrifice and small armed groups rising up against the state seemed worthy of three cheers . |
| 16 | There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . |
| 17 | Now the cafés in the quiet , tree-lined High Street were a little shabby , and the handsome Georgian houses taken over as bank premises , solicitors , offices , and old people 's homes . |
| 18 | Insert the cuttings by pushing each one down into the sand about 4–5 inches ( 10–12cm ) apart and with the leaves at right angles to the line of the slit , so that growth emanating from the axillary buds grows out into free space between the rows , not into the cutting next door . |
| 19 | Coloured lights strung between low pylons bounce about amongst the palm trees . |
| 20 | This last observation suggests that popular discussions of technological spillovers and ‘ the appropriability problem ’ may have exaggerated the ease with which information generated from a firm 's innovative activities spills over to other firms . |
| 21 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 22 | She frequently sat up in the wee sma' hours staring out of the window . |
| 23 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 24 | The uncertainty surrounding the future of London 's specialty care services continues despite the publication this week of 6 reviews by working groups set up by the London Implementation Group after publication of the UK Department of Health 's response to the Tomlinson report on London 's health services . |
| 25 | The answers to these questions are discovered from the diagram ( given certain simple diagrammatic transformations carried out by the system , which are structurally analogous to changes that would happen in the real world ) , rather than being computed in terms of abstract mathematical equations and specific numerical values . |
| 26 | Normally , you will be able to agree to disagree when necessary , but if conflicting attitudes spill over into lasting antagonism , then you are heading for trouble . |
| 27 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
| 28 | The process of generating the CSF begins with three-year or five-year regional plans drawn up by the individual member states which are then presented to the Commission . |
| 29 | Mr. Cousins argues that a farmer with 1,000 acres , of which 50 acres would be set-aside , would hardly notice eight acres given up to non-rotational set-aside . |
| 30 | A row of yellow , baleful eyes looked down from the darkness among the rafters . |