Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment of the two sisters as objects for possession and domination is given a further and perhaps more insidious turn by their mother , Eleonora , who by ‘ serpentizing Fraud ’ uses her daughters to gain political advantage . |
| 2 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 3 | … it seems that to pick £600 as a threshold for life governors because of the provisions of Gift Aid is to ignore a less brutal and therefore more acceptable way of achieving Life Governor status while still enabling the Institution to recover income tax . |
| 4 | It was a lament which registered the weakening of a moderate , socially philanthropic evangelicalism in the face of the more strident and ultimately more bigoted brand associated with Irving and Drummond outside the church and the Recordites within it . |
| 5 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 6 | The old and still very popular variety ‘ Old Blush China ’ is reputedly ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ of the nineteenth-century poet Thomas Moore , no doubt due to its remarkable reluctance to stop blooming each autumn . |
| 7 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 8 | The attack is usually concentrated in damp and more easily edible wood such as built-in bonding timbers , the eaves ends of rafters and the vearing ends of beams and trusses . |
| 9 | It presented an extended and more clearly structured form of much which already existed . |
| 10 | One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary . |
| 11 | A four-mile path meanders round the lake in the centre of the park ; our project was to lay red shale on a popular and consequently very worn stretch along the north side . |
| 12 | Older people identify improvements in material circumstances such as housing , diet and general prosperity , and improved and more widely available health care , as the reason for improved health . |
| 13 | There is an ancient monument at Karnak in Egypt which carries the most detailed and probably most extensive example of the ‘ unkindest cut of all ’ , when King Menephta took awful revenge on a Libyan army he defeated around 1300 BC . |
| 14 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 15 | Indecency is a much broader and more widely used category of offence . |
| 16 | Some cultures emphasize the values of cooperating with others , conciliating opposing views , and being prepared to compromise and submerge one 's own ideas in a broader and more popularly acceptable solution . |
| 17 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 18 | The calamity was discovered after he left , and the next morning he gave a totally different and even more eloquent record to Edison 's enterprising representative , Colonel Gouraud ’ . |
| 19 | After being told it was within 0.1 accurate , I found another friend with a different and much more expensive pH meter . |
| 20 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 21 | In a different and much more alarming category is the fate of the Soviet industry . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , a different and much more widespread tradition of timekeeping survived involving the use of fire and incense . |
| 23 | Her later career , from the time of her marriage to Darnley in the summer of 1565 , inevitably gave rise to writing of a very different and much more partisan nature . |
| 24 | Clearly quite a different and much more glamorous God than the Loxford one lived at St Saviour 's . |
| 25 | She was not alone , of course , in making the unwarranted assumption that an unruly Scots noble was in some way a fundamentally different and far more dangerous animal than an unruly French , or English , one ; generations of historians , up to modern times , have seriously distorted the history of Scotland by taking exactly that view . |
| 26 | When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear . |
| 27 | The Jewish population of Berlin also increased and peaked at about 3–4 per cent at the time of World War I. In multi-ethnic Vienna the Jews , though a different and more often stigmatized nationality , were still only yet another nationality . |
| 28 | And , even if it had to be done by a department , could it be done with fewer people in a different and more managerially efficient way ? |
| 29 | This implies that the globular domain has a different and possibly more specific mode of interaction with DNA from the rest of the protein . |
| 30 | It was an interesting if much too long meeting lasting from 2pm to about 6.15pm — but interesting in that , with rather few of us there , it was a chance to range over a whole lot of issues on and off the agenda , and a chance to appreciate the efforts , interests , aspirations and voluntary input of many others — though of course they get support from their activities from their employers . |