Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 2 | In both their life-style and their religious teachings , the Essenes were more rigorous and austere than either the Sadducees or the Pharisees . |
| 3 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 4 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 5 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Sheil said it was sad and regrettable that both the poppy and shamrock , which were worn by both traditions with pride throughout the world and by many in Northern Ireland , were capable of being used in the prison as a means of provocation to other prisoners . |
| 7 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 8 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 9 | As far as any future evaluation is concerned , if we adopt this definition of support teaching , it is obvious that more than just the traditional concerns with pupil progress in specific skills areas will need to be taken into account . |
| 10 | It had been so quick and thorough that only a few people now remained around it , staring glassy-eyed , and the Rante itself already seemed oddly quiet and deserted . |
| 11 | The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family . |
| 12 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 13 | Fagan was a bleak and determined little man , tidy and forbidding as only an ex-steeplechase jockey can be . |
| 14 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
| 15 | The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him . |
| 16 | It 's a lot more than that and quite a different fabric . |
| 17 | Family planning as promoted in El Salvador has been characterized by very aggressive marketing and it is more than apparent that both the medical profession and women are subjected to unethical pressures . |
| 18 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 19 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 20 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 21 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 22 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 23 | And now the rains had really come , so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene . |
| 24 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 25 | Only 3% rate themselves as a little worse than most and virtually no one says they 're a lot worse than most . |
| 26 | Jan Hus preached here between 1402 and 1413 and later the Bethlehem Chapel became one of the centres of the Reformation . |
| 27 | His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week . |
| 28 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 29 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 30 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |