Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closing pages of his journal speak repeatedly of the ‘ high surfs ’ and ‘ great waves ’ crashing against the Hawaiian littoral and preventing the Discovery and the Resolution from docking . |
| 2 | It 's no stranger than joining the army and coming home on your first leave with a moustache . |
| 3 | I 'd rather have it doing that than lifting the front and shaking its head . ’ |
| 4 | To same yourself having to stretch too much when cleaning the bath and surrounding tiles , says Elizabeth Hagglund of Birmingham , keep a long-handled squeezy mop for the purpose , and you will avoid backache . |
| 5 | Even in the rich world , childbirth is between one and a half to three times as dangerous as taking the pill and nearly 11 times as dangerous as being sterilised or using the IUD , whereas early , legal abortion carries a mortality rate similar to the pill . |
| 6 | Consider the following sentence : ( 21 ) Getting married and having a child is better than having a child and getting married Good arguments will be given in Chapter 3 to suggest that the word and of itself does not mean ( have the semantic content ) " and then " , but is neutral with respect to a temporal dimension . |
| 7 | Which I believe makes it that much more powerful than showing the vial and whatever . |
| 8 | For a Hindu woman nothing is more important than possessing a husband and nothing is luckier than to have a loving and caring husband . |
| 9 | Creating a technical structure that allows for a pan-authority electronic mail service is usually as problematic as building the trust and confidence that will allow staff to communicate and make decisions using such a system — let alone remember to log in each day . |
| 10 | There may well be teachers in the school who will not be convinced that teaching is about anything other than delivering the curriculum and will have a restricted view of their role as professionals . |
| 11 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 12 | Like Mr Nicholson , I have been commuting for more than ten years from Fife , but hardly ever by car , which I find is too nerve-wracking and frustrating an experience and almost as bad as commuting by bus . |
| 13 | After a recent holiday to Cyprus , assistant straights and grain trader , returned to work , not only looking extremely sun-tanned but sporting a sapphire and diamond engagement ring given to her by driver , while they were away . |
| 14 | Film and television posit , in their dominant forms , the coherence of time and space , prioritizing the diegetic and virtual while eliding the time and place of viewing . |
| 15 | It 's small links like this that only fit together if you are quite alert when reading the book and remember small factors such as a yellow ribbon in a drawer and a gold locket around someone 's neck . |
| 16 | For once , Steve Titcombe and Mark Hett saw precious little action out on the wings but full-back Dyble was outstanding when joining the line and fly-half Nick Gregory was a master at finding touch . |
| 17 | It 's far more attractive than watching a tractor and we like to encourage people to come and visit us at Westonbirt . |
| 18 | Swan was flying back and forth right in front of the snorting cloud of smoke , tempting and tantalizing the beast and driving him mad with greed . |