Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events .
2 Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town .
3 I could do with forty winks right now and Otley would never miss me .
4 Though few proceed so far as Grant Gilmore in awarding a death certificate to the classical law of contract , as exceptions to the rules multiply , most writers at least acknowledge that novel principles destroy the crispness and generality of such doctrines as consideration and privity .
5 This means not only that forecasts must be made for each sector separately but that the base year should be the last one for which there were no constraints on the supply of places .
6 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
7 If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed .
8 This arises not only because fathers tend to reject young sons at puberty but also because young males show a preference for their own kind for company .
9 In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 .
10 The slow movement is a highly introspective affair , never afraid to dig in deep where others merely navigate surface implications .
11 Some colleagues are giving me some messages to read out it would n't be appropriate to do so today because colleagues they er forget them , so I 'm gon na do them tomorrow which will be more appropriate so please do n't think that I 've er forgotten them .
12 The track now survives and is quite easy to follow as far as Cemmaes .
13 The Rachmaninov Op 19 , too , begins with questions , these posed more boldly than Beethoven 's and answered in a first movement of easy confidence .
14 It all happened so fast that Jenna had no time to move .
15 The failure of the programme of 1918 stemmed above all from the lack of real agreement at the time ; despite the negotiations , the coalition 's electoral manifesto and campaign of 1918 went little further than Lloyd George 's letter to Bonar Law .
16 I am delighted to announce that we will soon manufacturing ovens at our Hygena factory in Stockton extending the range of products manufactured in-house follows on naturally as M F I 's position as the leading ah retailer of built-in kitchen appliances .
17 They all sat up straight as Patrick walked among them .
18 We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing
19 Ironically , too , it could turn out that much less goes on physically when John sees Mary and tells Dick about it , than when John gives Mary a black eye that tells Dick of his blow .
20 But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs .
21 It would however be unwise to assume too easily that volumes will continue to grow rapidly .
22 Rostov knew that he was going to be able to kick again long before Alexei was in contact with a surface .
23 Whatever the government , the NHS has always been seen as underfunded and that is unlikely to change so long as children and old people wait months for operations .
24 The police are n't telling us anything — I have n't been able to get as far as Marshall and the others just look mysterious and say they do n't know . ’
25 It was hard to adjust to a normal life ; to no longer fearing that the door would suddenly be opened and somebody would come to take us away ; to the thought that there might soon be more food ; and that we might be able to travel further afield than Parma or even Trieste .
26 Although UPH agreed to purchase the site in November 1988 and did not complete the purchase until August 1989 , we have learned that the idea of it becoming a site for Telecom 's HQ was first mooted as early as April ‘ 89 .
27 Only one company , Equitable Life , paid out more than had been paid in — £1,879 — and several paid out less than £1,000 .
28 Many of those properties were either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation , some were already allotted to service families who were due to move in shortly and others were being considered for disposal .
29 No significant differences ( χ 2 test ) were found between the two subgroups as far as index polyp number , size , histotype , or degree of dysplasia were concerned .
30 I WAS surprised to read in TODAY that Weymouth Town Charities intends to evict a 90-year-old woman from her home for having her TV and radio on too loud .
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