Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When somebody suggested , early in the LP era , that eventually all the old 78s we knew — and possibly many that we did n't — would one day be transferred to the new medium , he was answered by the shaking of heads . |
| 2 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 3 | Mind you he come down from five hundred to two hundred and fifty so that 's helped a bit . |
| 4 | That 's your hundred and fifty so these are hundred and fifty one two three four five five hundred and one man oh no that 's fifty and a hundred so that 's five hundred you 've six hundred and one man loose . |
| 5 | Perhaps some of your problems are not technical so much as aesthetic . |
| 6 | But Nigel did take the time to explain that b that basically this was the , the , the view that the new directive would take place keeping it simple . |
| 7 | Defence , which lost Labour so many votes in 1983 and 1987 , is especially important . |
| 8 | From there on , the topography is less demanding , the road undulating gently all the way to Monmouth . |
| 9 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 10 | Children get a lot out of them , much younger I think than most people assume , but I would also like to see changes in the organization of work for both men and women to make possible much more flexibility . |
| 11 | That 's right so that 's |
| 12 | that 's right much more powder than you use |
| 13 | These greetings are always positive , for with these women all life is of God : whatever trials or disasters are endured , they must be God-sent so all is well . |
| 14 | So at eight o'clock that evening , Bathsheba found herself , in spite of her doubts , climbing the hill near her house and going down the other side . |
| 15 | By eight o'clock that evening Paige was sitting at the dressing-table in her luxurious hotel room busily putting the finishing touches to her make-up . |
| 16 | Before eight o'clock that morning Fabia had left the hotel and was at Prague railway station . |
| 17 | Ken , as that star , received star treatment from this reviewer of the revue — which incidentally got its title from being a company of eight performing at eight o'clock each evening . |
| 18 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 19 | eight o'clock this morning , who the hell that was from , I do n't know , I was out the washing line I come flying in but I never got it , and nobody 's rung . |
| 20 | All right I 'll put y Oh by the way the tickets have gone those tickets have gone but you can get them on the door at the Mapley Plain Social Club this Wednesday in Nottingham and you can see the Ivy League Alf , Berry and Heather Nixon , Night Ride organist and drummer and the compere Peter Lawrie six quid the tickets are admission at eight o'clock this Wednesday an all star show at the Mapley Plain Social Club in Nottingham . |
| 21 | He worked with reasonable diligence , getting to Wilden by eight o'clock most mornings , and also travelling a good deal — to South Wales , to Birmingham , to London and even on one occasion to the United States — on the firm 's affairs . |
| 22 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 23 | I am sorry so many years passed without our having an intercourse by letters , as I am sensible how many observations I have lost which must have fallen in your way to have made . |
| 24 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 25 | As a consequence , the number of ministerial appointees with farming experience has increased by over half since 1980 so that farming interests now predominate among the ministerially appointed members , as well as among the members appointed by the councils . |
| 26 | Yeah , I 'll go and put that together those |
| 27 | More fundamentally perhaps , people are asking themselves , ‘ Why did we all want English medium anyway ? ’ and there is a rather bitter feeling around that perhaps all the enthusiasm , all the euphoria about ‘ new methods ’ ought to have been preceded by a sober consideration of ‘ new objectives . ’ |
| 28 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 29 | It has put in it 's place , a , er a general purposes and finance sub- committee , this is this one referred to , it has not made allowances for who shall serve on it per county , all it did , it called it together very quickly , and to cut costs to authorities , it 's based the meetings in Bristol instead of Exeter , and it was suggested by the chairman of W R A D , that perhaps any volunteers coming onto it , erm , would in fact come from the surrounding counties . |
| 30 | ‘ The building is locked at eleven o'clock each night , but anyone wishing to stay out later may be given a key . |