Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Memorable especially are the Victorian rectitude of her mother 's grandfather , a public-spirited and popular governor of Hainaut and the introverted idealism of his nephew , Octave Pirmez , still regarded as the most distinguished Belgian essayist of his time ; and Remo , whose anguished pursuit of justice and truth through Germany and Greece ended with his sublime and absurd suicide listening to Tannhauser on his musical box . |
| 2 | That perhaps was the biggest shock . |
| 3 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 4 | That perhaps was an understandable mistake in the nineteenth century when , for example , in this country the population was expanding very rapidly . |
| 5 | Many sea-green incorruptibles will be there , but might this commercial fair be the first harbinger of green over-kill ? |
| 6 | This not being a sufficient degree of regularity , the company had not bought the car ‘ in the course of a business . ’ |
| 7 | All right do n't do n't criticize me for this not being an accurate map . |
| 8 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | This always was a good fire . |
| 10 | I would be sitting then I get up and this pain would come through me ankle , right into this p remember I fell down the stairs , and this always was the weak bit ? |
| 11 | Backing this up was the constant confrontation with the Swastika ; its image , made more powerful by the angle at which it was presented , affected the deepest centres of human intuition and acted in what is called in Hinduism a ‘ yantra ’ , a design to stimulate consciousness . |
| 12 | This also is a square matrix of unit rank , and z12 evidently has the properties unc In fact , the above equations , and the properties of the matrices unc discussed in 1.18 , are all contained in the general result unc on evaluation of the inner products . |
| 13 | And yet this probably is the first point to make . |
| 14 | The swimming pool and sunbathing area are a focal point of the hotel — so pack plenty of sun lotion , as this really is a great suntrap ! |
| 15 | ‘ This really is a bad side to your character ! |
| 16 | ( Aug 24-Sep 23 ) This really is a peculiar time for finances . |
| 17 | This really is an important day . |
| 18 | William Kirby , of the Royal National Institute for the Blind , which is supporting the video , said : ‘ This really is an exciting development . |
| 19 | As the door closed behind Martha , Mary thought to herself , ‘ This really is the strangest house that anyone ever lived in . ’ |
| 20 | This really is the hardest part — waiting . |
| 21 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 22 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 23 | But this really was the only way forward that I can see . |
| 24 | This really was the last straw . |
| 25 | This surely is the primary reason for keeping fit . |
| 26 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 27 | What is so interesting here is the cadaveric spasm . |
| 28 | Hayes makes some relevant remarks , but even more apposite here is the computationally-informed work of the psycholinguists G. A. Miller and P. N. Johnson-Laird , who have studied the basic perceptual procedures in which our linguistic abilities are grounded ( Miller & Johnson-Laird 1976 ) . |
| 29 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 30 | This then is a second dimension of fragmentation — of an apparently chaotic jumble of conflicting policy traditions — placed on top of the jumble of separate nations . |