Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 2 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 3 | The only catch is whether you decided to make a wise investment or take a speculative chance some months or even years ago . |
| 4 | Work is very rarely performed by a man without the aid of some machinery and correspondingly machines rarely function for very long without human intervention . |
| 5 | Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me . |
| 6 | Only 4% of organisations never keep paper copies of electronic documents and over 20% always keep copies . ’ |
| 7 | This involved a 65mm camera that could do stop-motion by leaving the shutter open for an extended time and also refocus automatically while moving back and forth on a track as well as up and down , if necessary . |
| 8 | And now Toni lives in Magaluf — once a tiny village where even islanders rarely visited , now a sprawling mess of neon , curry burgers and chips , the Benny Hill and Linekers bars , and holidaying Brits drunk in charge of a limited vocabulary . |
| 9 | For much of this century Marxist literary criticism monopolized the realm of literary theory , for the simple reason that only Marxists consistently believed in its value and strategic necessity . |
| 10 | All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans . |
| 11 | Gauthier has revived the Hobbesian argument that political authority and indeed morality generally can be founded on rational self-interest . |
| 12 | In front of this again is an octagonal baptistery and further west still a later campanile . |
| 13 | So many bodies doing so many varied local duties created a lack of concerted effort and so Parliament gradually absorbed these boards into the local government machine by transferring their functions one by one to the local authorities . |
| 14 | ‘ Third , ’ the Doctor said , as Bernice whirled to see an open doorway where only seconds earlier there had been a flat wall , ‘ I imagine those androids would prefer us not to attempt to escape , in the TARDIS or in any other way . |
| 15 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 16 | I think that 's a minor problem but perhaps architects now pay a little more attention to and that is that , in the afternoon when you like to sit in the evening when you like to sit in the garden in the sunshine you are sitting in the shadow because the house er is between the sun and the garden |