Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changez 's left arm was withered in some way , and stuck on the end of the attenuated limb was a lump of hard flesh the size of a golf ball , a small fist , with only a tiny thumb projecting from the solid mass where there should have been nimble , shop-painting , box-carrying fingers . |
| 2 | Rewards of a more subtle kind thus have to be substituted . |
| 3 | What we have witnessed in recent years is a subtle change whereby the courts , often without alluding to the authorities mentioned , have reviewed decisions to test their evidentiary basis . |
| 4 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 5 | Within each caste there existed numerous subdivisions , which allotted members a ranking vis-à-vis each other . |
| 6 | Can I ask you though if you are gon na sneak out and smoke in the conservatory er not in that passageway along there , cos the smoke detectors |
| 7 | I 've never noticed that badge before . |
| 8 | It occurred to him that he had not worn his best clothes for many weeks ; not since that confusing afternoon when some of Buddie 's friends had rushed through the house carrying boxes , cases and sacks that must not be discovered when the police came to search the place . |
| 9 | A horrible damp stifling smell then filled his lungs . |
| 10 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 11 | For most people , a penny on or off the standard tax rate — that formulation again ! — pales into insignificance compared with their pre-tax income , the inflation rate , the size of their pension and their mortgage interest rate . |
| 12 | Arrange the plants side by side and cut a thin sliver from each stem so that the two wounds exactly match when brought together . |
| 13 | At the first pruning , take each stem down to a suitable bud , so that ideally it is reduced to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10 cm ) in length . |
| 14 | One top dealer used to take the odd afternoon off , and secretly work for another licensed dealer nearby , taking his commission payments there cash in hand . |
| 15 | ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops . |
| 16 | ‘ And do n't let that briefcase out of yer sight . ’ |
| 17 | Large companies in particular , have received extensive support when markets were expanding but they can also rely on financial support in less prosperous years . |
| 18 | If they are as divorced from experience as they seem , the only explanations for their regular occurrence in a variety of people must be either , following Jung , that these are archetypal dreams with some allegorical significance , or that they represent an attempt to make sense out of experiences really occurring during dreaming sleep — an attempt to make a coherent story out of some pattern of the highly active discharges from the hindbrain which are a feature of REM sleep . |
| 19 | To the people the youthful 48-year-old worked with in the theatrical world she was a real professional on stage and a bubbly , friendly extrovert away from the audience . |
| 20 | The surface was soggy , but there was a solid base underneath . |
| 21 | The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point . |
| 22 | Seventy per cent of it is going into farmer 's pockets , right , even on goods like m m manufactured goods , we pay V A T on er manufactured goods and that V A T pays for our contribution to the European Community and most of that contribution , about seventy per cent of it , goes to farmers tt erm , right so the next economic costs to European Community right are fourteen point nine billion alright that 's the size of the dead weight loss that 's the inefficiency right , of agricultural support right , losing fifteen billion dollars a year , right , just going down the er , the Swanny okay Just a couple of point just before we er before we close . |
| 23 | Now just to give you some numbers erm on er who gains and who loses right erm right for the world as a whole right , erm the study conducted by right nineteen eighty nine I looked at the cost of some benefits from agricultural support alright , in nineteen eighty six to nineteen eighty seven in just one year one crop year alright . |
| 24 | ( Certainly , Working for patients will in due course also require management accounting skills but these will be used to address different issues — such as how to ‘ price ’ contracts for clinical services — from those previously on the agenda . ) |
| 25 | SFA may in due course also include relevant European institutions ( see page 37 below ) as qualifying intermediaries . |
| 26 | Alright well to consider it in due course anyway , for the moment there it is . |
| 27 | However , in due course more and more authority ( over defence and foreign affairs for example ) went to the central government . |
| 28 | The Conservative Government 's attempts at reviving the private-rented sector have met with very little success though in due course more substantial results are expected from the 1988 Housing Act . |
| 29 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 30 | However , there is no doubt that these will become commercial in due course so that we may see electric cars , especially for local running . |