Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have taken on board that with redundancy now a prominent part of corporate life severance pay is no longer enough and employees need practical help , ’ he said . |
| 2 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 3 | It 'd look a bit odd with bricks though , I think . |
| 4 | Bit strange in Thirsk anyway I thought . |
| 5 | Yeah , I felt , I feel a bit sorry for Hannah actually cos |
| 6 | Then we went to a lake with wooded and marshy shores where we saw several ‘ new ’ birds : a crane flew past , looking like a grey heron except that it carried its neck outstretched in flight instead of ‘ folded back ’ . |
| 7 | 2 × 15ml/tbsp olive oil 1 onion , finely sliced 1 clove garlic , crushed 225g/8oz/1 cup risotto rice , thoroughly washed in running water 1 × 5ml/tsp powdered saffron ( optional ) 186g/6½oz can pimentos , drained and chopped 175g/6oz salame , finely chopped 500ml/1pt/2& cups boiling water or vegetable stock 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped parsley salt and freshly ground black pepper 25–50g/1–2oz Parmesan cheese , freshly grated |
| 8 | A life-long reformer such as Russell clearly saw himself , not as conceding , but as strengthening aristocratic influence . |
| 9 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 10 | Informal fractions ( see chapter 7 Towards Number often occur in conversations of this kind . |
| 11 | This is in sharp contrast to other countries on the continent such as France where up to 80 pc of homes have fitted bedroom furniture . |
| 12 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 13 | Detention in young offender institution — statutory criteria — only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him — whether criterion applicable to offender previously placed on probation |
| 14 | South African Airways : As mentioned in the November issue , SAA are preparing former SAAF 6888 for use again as ZS-BXF . |
| 15 | And the against I will move that that is approved for purposes of members travelling and subsistence those in favour please say aye . |
| 16 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 17 | Hence the confusion evident in situations where superior military might has little utility — the economic challenge of Japan , the European Community 's recalcitrance in negotiations over the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) or attempts to agree global policy on environmental issues at the June 1992 Earth Summit . |
| 18 | Overcoming this Catch 22 has cost modern fusion research billions of dollars so far , using arrays of magnets as big as houses in order to contain the fuel at temperatures ten times hotter even than those in the centre of the Sun , and making it dense enough and stable enough that a self-sustaining reaction can occur . |
| 19 | 75ml/3fl oz/¼ cup garlic vinegar 150ml/6fl oz/½ cup grapeseed or peanut oil salt and pepper 1 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped parsley |
| 20 | 1 × 400g/14oz can flageolet beans , drained 75g/3oz ham , chopped or shredded 125g/4oz cherry tomatoes , halved 50g/2oz butter 1–2 cloves garlic , crushed salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped parsley 125g/4oz small button mushrooms lettuce , radichio or spinach leaves for serving |
| 21 | where the vocabulary , the syntax , even the punctuation suggest a high honing of stylistic effect reminiscent of Gibbon rather than Swift , of Beckford rather than Defoe . |
| 22 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 23 | This was expected to provide for a President and National Assembly , to be elected for a five-year term under a multiparty system , with the President eligible for re-election once only . |
| 24 | The fruits of performance are proprietary rights and choses in action assignable under statute even if the contract is personal ( Linden Gardens Trust Limited v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd and St Martins Property Corporation Ltd and Another v Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd 57 BLR 57 , both cases have been joined and are being heard in an appeal to the House of Lords at the time of writing ) . |
| 25 | If it is not , then we can say that the upper class enjoys a high degree of social closure relative to classes below . |
| 26 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
| 27 | Knowing this , Googol tried to be wry about his own feelings and eschewed any dandified garb such as Jaq now sported . |
| 28 | New subsidy arrangements increased the grant payable to blocks over six storeys . |
| 29 | There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two . |
| 30 | We will actually design and top-copy write their ad free of charge anyway . |