Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that so many kinds of pollution are avoidable , it really is high time that we all did something to bring an end to this needless damage . |
| 2 | There were some rather good pieces of furniture and china . |
| 3 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 4 | There were some rather dramatic episodes over hair styles . |
| 5 | These and other examples suggest that engineering design may impose some rather loose constraints on structure , and may in some cases impose precise quantitative constraints on shape ( e.g. the shapes of bird 's wings are very accurately adapted to particular modes of flight ) . |
| 6 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 7 | At ‘ Children 's Gallup and Entry of the Parents ’ , the strings are deliciously precise in their rhythms and the brass is good humoured ; ‘ The Arrival of Drosselmeyer ’ brings beautifully polished articulation from the violins with the flutes chirping ; later in ‘ The Grandfather 's Dance ’ there are some most stylish touches of rubato , semi-pauses in the line , which are quite perfectly timed , again with the strings dancing with the utmost daintiness . |
| 8 | Such large numbers of the would-be most productive members of society rendered severely disabled or ill could have catastrophic effects on the national economy and development . |
| 9 | The archives contain some extremely impressive examples of recognition by administrators of the fundamental rationality of Masai pastoralism , at a time when pastoralism was generally considered to be merely a primitive prelude to the development of agriculture , and pastoralists obsolete relics of an earlier phase of human history . |
| 10 | The dark , blue-black serpentine which had been popular before was still used a great deal , but now new materials were tried out as well — alabaster , gypsum , limestone , marble and breccia — and some extremely hard rocks like porphyry . |
| 11 | Similarly , one of the few obviously valid arguments in favour of capital punishment is that executed offenders never re-offend afterwards . |
| 12 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 13 | When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment . |
| 14 | Wives in the land of the Rising Sun enjoy half as many nights of passion as their Western sisters . |
| 15 | From 1977 to 1986 there were about half as many convictions for manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility as there were murder convictions . |
| 16 | I mean she is capable of getting through some fairly extraordinary amounts of work . |
| 17 | There will be more people in future above current pensionable ages than in the past , barring some fairly improbable changes in fertility and mortality trends ( DHSS , 1984 ; Ermisch and Joshi , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 19 | The usual household expendables , a suitcase containing some fairly valuable pieces of pewter ( dumped by mistake ? or stolen and dumped in fear ? ) and , an item which made Pascoe whistle slightly , two guns . |
| 20 | You meet some of the wildest , wackiest , weirdest , most fun people — and at the same time there 's some really dark forces at work . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously you learn some stuff through trial and error , but there are some really excellent books about photography which are extremely useful . |
| 22 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 23 | You 'll also be overlooking some nonchalantly sly snippets of humour : the sleeve of ‘ Oomalama ’ features half a dozen plastic animals . |
| 24 | Licio Gelli , the former grand master of the P-2 Masonic lodge , and 15 others went on trial on Oct. 12 following 11 years of investigation by magistrates . |
| 25 | Baden-Powell , the man who galvanised the hopes and fears of Edwardian England into a truly spectacular social movement , was also given to some equally spectacular celebrations of Hooliganism . |
| 26 | All this , and much more , would be discussed over a good dinner and some equally good bottles of wine during an afternoon . |
| 27 | But what are in one sense dramatically opposed kinds of relationship are in another simply alternative celebrations of masculinity . |
| 28 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 29 | My feeling is that two separate matters sometimes get mixed up : the practice and study of connected speech is agreed by everyone to be of great importance , but this can sometimes result in some relatively unimportant aspects of speech ( e.g. assimilation , juncture ) being given more emphasis than they should . |
| 30 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |