Example sentences of "[noun] and [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For : very nicely made out of very posh wood , well finished , with a good chunky neck and that very practical compound radius fingerboard , with top-class hardware to finish it off ( the Wilkinson is deservedly this year 's tremolo , while both the locking Schallers and the Seymour Duncans are excellent ) . |
| 2 | He was a little shorter than myself , rather stocky with broad shoulders and that slightly duck-toed walk I find so attractive in athletic young men . |
| 3 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 4 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 5 | You walk in here with a bagful of goodies and that preposterously expensive bottle of wine , looking like shit would n't stick to your shoe , and want me to pretend that we 're married , we 're happy , and that it 's always happened like this . |
| 6 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 7 | Right , as you can imagine things might get a little bit nasty , we 're incorporating two er , two hypothesis and although very simple produce algebra that er , that 's a bit nasty . |
| 8 | A candid confession to youthful pot-smoking , it is generally agreed , is no longer a disqualification for office , but the sore part of the latest wound — pretty mild by Clinton standards — was that he had been evasive when asked repeatedly about it for at least seven years and that even last week 's admission was shifty . |
| 9 | Every serious practising critic knows a secret which is less often publicly discussed , namely , that there exists no ready-made corridor between the sealed chambers of stylistic investigation and that equally unventilated space in which the object of study is reconstituted as narrative structure . |
| 10 | During the past two years alone , reports in a series of highly respected scientific journals , including The Journal of the American Chemical Society , Science , and both The British Medical Journal and The British Dental Journal , have warned that individuals are receiving fluoride from a growing number of sources and that too much fluoride can be harmful . |
| 11 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 12 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 13 | Tomorrow the Transport Secretary John MacGregor reintroduces the bill to privatize British Rail to the House of Commons , it had a rough journey through the House of Lords and until late last week it looked set for a stormy passage through the Commons too , but then Mr MacGregor introduced a series of amendments that everyone assumes will satisfy the rebellious Tory MP s , but as Michael Gold reports , there are still obstacles for Mr MacGregor to surmount . |
| 14 | Well , I got erm , highways , at the traffic end , with traffic problems , access and but obviously that start doing this |
| 15 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 16 | Strain them ( keep the liquid — it will make a good basis for a vegetable soup ) , put them in a bowl and while still hot stir in plenty of olive oil , sliced onion , garlic , parsley , and a little vinegar . |
| 17 | Balls often fell into dense cover and if too much time was wasted in retrieval other golfers were delayed . |
| 18 | It will long remain a problem to the average person that these sheds had such wide popularity and that so little use was made of the cheaper , cleaner , or , in fact , better umbrella sheds . |
| 19 | The fact that the band refused to do videos and that very little TV promotion was given to these singles did n't help either . |
| 20 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |