Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Klerk did not significantly address the ANC 's demands , but described as defamatory and false the claim that he was conducting a campaign of political murder , and defended the security forces , which , he declared , operated with impartiality . |
| 2 | The central development of courses and units will assist this process , as not only will HN unit exemplars be made widely available but also the experience and staff development received by NDOs and Unit Writers at SCOTVEC will be extremely valuable and will be put to good use by their respective colleges . |
| 3 | At the time , however , the question of Ho Chi Minh 's communism and his connections with Moscow and with ‘ international communism , seemed somewhat academic and certainly no more important to begin with than the mounting suspicions of France 's unreconstructed colonialism . |
| 4 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
| 5 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 6 | A world in fact in which the stuff itself — the coins , the notes — seemed barely relevant and indeed a trifle indecent . |
| 7 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 8 | ‘ It just shows how far and wide the fame of The Street has spread . |
| 9 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 10 | They never come round on their own , and you you see them in the daytime , you know probably one or twice a week . |
| 11 | Still , the Carolingian Renaissance in the mid-ninth century touched far more than just a select clerical few . |
| 12 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 13 | Launer , which carries the Royal Warrant , offers far more than just the style for which the Queen is famous . |
| 14 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 15 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 16 | The new car will bristle with safety hardware , including side intrusion bars and airbags as standard and possibly a roll-over bar for the convertible . |
| 17 | That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours . |
| 18 | As the surface approaches infinity ( b ) , the distances from the two eyes to all squares on the surface become more similar and thus the perspective views become identical . |
| 19 | She looked slightly unamused and not a little worried . |
| 20 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 21 | They also knew how dark and long the northern winters could be . |
| 22 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 23 | The fact was that distrust of Chamberlain ran so deep that even the most unequivocal supporter of rearmament in the labour movement could not give unreserved support to his Government 's military preparations . |
| 24 | They 're spread all over the country , which is why I have to travel so much and why the Consulate had difficulty tracing me . ’ |
| 25 | There are two flattened rounded tentacle scales on the most proximal arm segment , subsequent pores have only one and distally the tentacle scale becoming quite small . |
| 26 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |