Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cardinal himself never pretended otherwise , but people whose doubts are depressingly real can easily forget this and become discouraged by such a standard . |
| 2 | I am thirty years old and have lived in this country for twenty-one years . |
| 3 | I am eleven-and-a-half years old and have lived in this country for two years . |
| 4 | For grammars restored to Tory councils ( and the 80-odd that have stayed with Tory authorities ) , the outlook is not quite so bleak . |
| 5 | After 25 years of hard use , JA 11 still has little or no creaking nor scuttle shaking on any reasonable surface and it is both light and delightfully precise . |
| 6 | In rural areas , despite soaring inflation , wages have been frozen by government decree since 1979 and have dropped in real terms by 69.3% between 1971–81 . |
| 7 | Second , once divested of their zonae , embryos of all stages are very sticky and tend to adhere to one another as well as to most culture dishes . |
| 8 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 9 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 10 | This is extremely confusing if you upgrade from version 4.2 to version 4.5 and have to refer to two manuals with identical titles containing different information . |
| 11 | It is , therefore , highly likely that waste arising from Scottish reactors will eventually be disposed of in England . |
| 12 | Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain . |
| 13 | The existence of such systems is less important than the fact that they are technically feasible and get reported as such . |
| 14 | They are poor and have to cope with young and demanding children on their own . |
| 15 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
| 16 | The effects of the uncertainty principle will then become very important and seem to point to some remarkable results . |
| 17 | I want to help South Africa become democratic and prosperous and avoid descending into further violence and poverty . ’ |
| 18 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 19 | Q I 'm 34 and have suffered for several years from intermittent burning pains in my knees , which often keep me awake . |