Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 2 | Even Pacquement admits that , in recent times , contemporary art has been viewed with too eclectic , uncritical and almost deferential an eye . |
| 3 | The situation is further confused when some but not all the operator information support is itself computer-based . |
| 4 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 5 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 6 | It is as simple and as revolutionary a milestone in human culture as the invention of the wheel . |
| 7 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 8 | An avenue of limes , dead straight and exactly half a statute mile in length , ran from the gates to the big house at Maran Hill . |
| 9 | We all knew how little and how vital a dime was . |
| 10 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 11 | From 1873 to 1945 , 19 out of 23 Attorneys-General and over half the Solicitors-General later held high judicial office . |
| 12 | A new packaging method means that the nappies are gently compacted immediately before packing , allowing them to fit inside a bag which is extremely solid and roughly half the size of the old packs . |
| 13 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 14 | But the larger and more complex the system , the further one can get by studying its workings . |
| 15 | That the petitioners beg earnestly to press the consideration of these circumstances upon the Presbytery in the hope that they shall use every effort to obtain services of some servant of Christ who may promote his cause among so neglected and spiritually destitute a community , to which perhaps a parallel will not be found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 16 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 17 | We were conscious of how far we were from the Rothern hut , and of how soft and how avalanche-prone the snow had become in the late afternoon . |
| 18 | Graham said : ‘ It is a fascinating pastime which we enjoy at night and on weekends and the brighter and more colourful the topic , the better . ’ |
| 19 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 20 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 21 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 22 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 23 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 24 | So , for accountants and those that can receive plenty of training and can get to grips with the program , it is very powerful and as complete a set of tools as you 'll see . |
| 25 | She moved nimbly and took his arm in a firm but not hurtful a grip . |
| 26 | Unless the original is crisp and clear the copies will lose definition , the smaller or more delicate the typeface , the worse the problem . |
| 27 | Both the Model Penal Code test and the Scots test may be reduced to circularity , however , for when one asks how extreme or how wicked the recklessness should be , the only possible answer is : ‘ wicked or extreme enough to justify the stigma of a murder conviction ’ . |
| 28 | Honeysuckle likes its feet in the shade and head in the sunshine ; grown in too sunny or too warm a place , it becomes infested with greenfly , blackfly , caterpillars and red spider mite . |
| 29 | However , not long after , Grisewood resigned and Mrs Whitehouse later said that he was , to her mind , ‘ too sincere and too gentle a Christian to be at ease amongst the demolition men who frequented the BBC at the time ’ . |
| 30 | Mozambique has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world , approximately 200 per 1,000 live births.4 Those who depend on emergency support because of war and drought number about 1,690,000 and about half the population is wholly or partially dependent on food aid . |