Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were as usual only a few lone silent figures , sitting in isolation . |
| 2 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 3 | That 's right so the total 's a hundred and forty three . |
| 4 | Whereas in Yorkshire the penetration and usage is very low perhaps the lowest in the country erm where there is still very much a heritage of , Well what 's wrong with what 's in t' tap lad ? |
| 5 | We like to keep the floor nice and sticky so the staff ca n't run away ! |
| 6 | One of the most famous enabled you to look right down a spitting Pipeline barrel through the snake 's eye at the far end towards the mountains in the distance . |
| 7 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 8 | Rapid changes in the field cause induced currents to f ow in power distribution networks , and if the induced currents are strong enough the supply of power can be disrupted . |
| 9 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 10 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 11 | 46:34 : the Egyptian dislike of the nomadic shepherds is probably no different fro the feelings of most settled people towards wandering gypsies . |
| 12 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 13 | Lee Doherty set Alan Dornan free down the right and his cross from the by-line was headed home superbly by Garry Haylock . |
| 14 | Europe contained , for most of the years between 1880 and 1945 , the most important forces in world politics , and was the focus of the arrangements which governed the world : these arrangements left unregulated only the western hemisphere ( and even there the British Royal Navy tacitly provided the under-writing of power needed by the Monroe Doctrine ) . |
| 15 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 16 | And I 'm going well I 've I just say I 've had erm three operations on my toe and I too painful so the doctor said advised me to only do games if I feel okay . |
| 17 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 18 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 19 | He picked one of the snowflakes off the parapet and began to read it , but it was not very interesting just a salt report from some sub-district or other . |
| 20 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 21 | It fails to establish a trust not because it is unclear , but because it does not conform to the pattern for a trust : it is a direct not a mediate wording . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I think Anpetuwi is charming just the way it is . |
| 23 | E two if it was carried forward sir after this morning 's discussion also does n't help us because , as the county made clear this morning and made very clear just a minute ago , it would use such a policy , it sees its position as being to block erm the er inward investment planning terms to block it as er erm being out of tune with the county 's general conservation and environmental policies . |
| 24 | ‘ If we do n't set him free soon the specialist will take him away . ’ |
| 25 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 26 | She felt hollow , light-headed with happy weariness , but sleep was strangely elusive just the same . |
| 27 | Because after all critics will say if representative democracy is n't the best practical realization of democracy but simply a sham , after all remember Russo 's comments on England , the people of England think they 're free but they 're mistaken , they 're free once every five years when they elect their rulers . |
| 28 | Other diversions include a sauna and steam bath which is free once a week , but otherwise is payable locally . |
| 29 | First , the European Commission in Brussels , probably because it is afraid of becoming completely superfluous once a truly free European market has been realised , is devising ways and means to regulate , or rather , deregulate , the import and export of works of art . |
| 30 | She ironed their tiny strips of white embroidered cuffs and collars herself , and sewed them on fresh nearly every day . |