Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 No , 1970 was not a good year for British and Cosmopolitan what with one thing and the other .
2 If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available .
3 Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table .
4 ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’
5 The others include Western Areas , H. J Joel , South Deep and Lindum which between them produce 51.7 tons of gold .
6 The book 's old-fashioned typeface , cramped and black , was as distinctive as Victorine herself in her dark dress and blue check overall , rapt lady clown with a glistening face and deft wrists .
7 She had no idea how long she stayed there , simply gazing into the beautiful sea-blue eyes which had become more important than life itself to her , but everything she saw there somehow made all of her doubts , all of her fears just slide away , leaving her lighter of heart than she could ever remember being .
8 Finally in October a new stage was reached in the Group 's exchange programme with Jiao Tong University , Shanghai by receiving Professors Ye Dun-ping and Wang Qin-he of the Department of Social Science and Social Engineering .
9 One would furnish houses and arrange landscapes ; one might go dangerously far and people them with … children .
10 ‘ A lot more research , based on reliable date , is essential if progress it to be made in rugby safety ’ , summed up Akpata .
11 A-road architecture does not glide in silently overnight and park itself along our urban highways .
12 He was only restrained from burning it to the ground by Harcourt , who urged him to ‘ be a little less impetuous and content yourself with what you have done ’ .
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