Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there onwards it becomes stronger and more emotional so that her joyous movements and later abandon in Romeo 's arms are in absolute contrast to her later dance with Paris . |
| 2 | Rust , iron oxide , is weak mechanically although its chemical bonds are strong . |
| 3 | I have almost no social life , free only when my disabled mother can manage my child for a few hours . |
| 4 | I do n't see why I should be made to feel embarrassed just because your bloody sister wants to show off with her new sewing machine . ’ |
| 5 | After all , since there are postnominal attributives , and since attributive adjectives have the function of helping to identify some entity , and since associatives certainly do this even though their referential locus is different from that of the noun qualified , the reason for the gap is not obvious . |
| 6 | ‘ Prettier maybe than her trampy sister here , ’ Fergal added . |
| 7 | I think er , Joe , it might be more appropriate perhaps if our legal advisor tells us of the niceties of the clause which he drafted . |
| 8 | ‘ I guess , ’ I tell him , ‘ he 's getting personal now because his usual targets have become more wary . ’ |
| 9 | These chambers all have the feature that they are far , far larger inside than their external dimensions suggest they could be . |
| 10 | Drivers in the Community 's northern states use unleaded more than their southern counterparts , while Germany alone uses as much as all 11 other member states put together . |
| 11 | Then a snowballing effect takes over , with the larger lumps able to grow larger still because their own gravity would attract other particles as they sweep along in their own orbit . |
| 12 | Yet coupled with the seizure of Polish territory in 1772 it helped to emphasize Prussia 's affinities with her eastern rather than her western neighbours . |
| 13 | LAST year 's accounts were concluded with my statement — ‘ We must continue to be of cautious mind as to the immediate future , confident nevertheless that our chosen strategy best equips the group to weather the ongoing economic turbulence . ’ |
| 14 | He was very firm now and his growing reaction reminded Jack of his mother 's . |
| 15 | The majority of the discussion so far has been concerned with the assessment of children 's artistic rather than their aesthetic development . |
| 16 | It is coming from a region where the mean velocity is smaller and it is thus likely to be moving downstream more slowly than its new environment ; i.e. it is more likely to have negative u than positive . |
| 17 | There is less panel-beating here than your dusty preconceptions would have it ( none , actually ) , but plenty of po about the face and burly beats and , having heard the Ocean Colour Scene single , this is vital . |
| 18 | Thus land development was important for capital when North Shields was being put together as an industrial town and it seems to be important again when its industrial base is being taken apart . |
| 19 | However , in real life such referentially obscure and ambiguous material is rare and Thorndyke therefore investigated memory for passages which were relatively coherent even when their precise theme was not specified in advance . |
| 20 | In the first place , as has been shown above , de la Broquière 's comparison of the Mufti with the Pope suggests a personage whose main characteristic was his spiritual rather than his temporal authority , a description which fits Fahreddin Acemi more closely than it does Molla Yegan . |
| 21 | We conclude then that choice even by the most responsible moral agent , however closely it resembles a pure Kantian decision for principle against inclination , is rational only if its fundamental procedure is that exposed to view by our unintellectual , intuitive romantic deciding whether to flee to Bali . |
| 22 | Likewise , the lives of other soldier-heroes of the period , the Black Prince , du Guesclin , even that of Henry V , although written in the chivalric vein , stress that these men were successful largely because their inherent qualities of leadership had benefited from training and experience . |
| 23 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 24 | I just have one qualification in that how that their main aim is erm to erm promote a rich peasant economy , that is their |
| 25 | Loretta speculated to herself that Bridget 's nerve was becoming a little less steady now that her own involvement in the affair was taking on a more practical aspect . |
| 26 | Do you still feel the same now that your own son is involved ? ’ |
| 27 | I am trying my best even if my biggest dream is to play in the Premier League . |
| 28 | The emergence of the Labour Party in 1922 as the second largest political party and the fact of alternating Labour and Conservative Governments in the period since the Second World War heightened Liberal interest in proportional representation — the more so from the 1960s onwards when their increasing vote in the country was not matched by seats in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | Better ( > ) slow gentle motion ; this soothes them both generally and their specific complaints — pains , headaches etc . |