Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basal conglomerate in England is full of boulders of a distinctive purple , " liver-coloured " and white quartzites that have been matched with the Gres de May and the Gres Armoricain right across the other side of the English Channel in Brittany ( though I regard with some scepticism the notion that the boulders here travelled so far ) . |
| 2 | Ramsden says the two disciplines ought to complement each other , but that most on the classical advertising side are unwilling to compromise their careful concepts with phone numbers or mailshot back-ups . |
| 3 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 4 | We have a better staff-inmate ratio than France or west Germany , and if we include prison auxiliaries and night patrols , we do not compare all that badly with the Scandinavian countries . |
| 5 | Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police . |
| 6 | Although not without its unique merits , ZBB does not differ that greatly from the ill-fated PPB experiments ’ . |
| 7 | Once , a bat whirred inside his chamber , invisible and apprehensible only from the eerie displacement of the air , the frenzy of wings on a high note . |
| 8 | This was due entirely to the ferocious efforts of Gloucester , no lovers of Bath , whose idea of a welcome last month was to treat their visitors rather like a doormat . |
| 9 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 10 | About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal . |
| 11 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 12 | Hostile bids would be possible only at the five-yearly meetings . |
| 13 | But none of this has any more to do with language than a new-born baby 's screeching or a plant 's wilting from lack of water , except in the unlikely event ( possible only in the human case ) of an attempt to deceive . |
| 14 | " Bishop Lowe died at eleven o'clock on the 30th September 1467 , at his Palace at Halling , in the most peaceful manner . |
| 15 | Was that so in the old days do you know ? |
| 16 | Now , she judged , his informal look was due only to the casual style of his clothes , a linen jacket in a beige loose-weave designed to set off his sexy tan , and a sort of hand-spun silk T-shirt emphasising the solid muscle underneath . |
| 17 | Manual control on the stage is now possible together with the existing joystick . |
| 18 | For many of the poor , the novelty of electricity was a symbol of access to a new postwar affluence , though consumption by such consumers typically remained small , and the Boards reckoned that many of these connections would be economic only in the longer run . |
| 19 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 20 | Go half right along the obvious track to the next field boundary . |
| 21 | Each of the three types of condensate in Figure 9.5 would scatter light uniformly across the visible spectrum , and therefore each would appear white . |
| 22 | Oh he 's brilliant , he has them stuck on the side of his wardrobe door on big pages this size , you know , maybe this height , and it 's detailed right through the whole thing . |
| 23 | I hope to reflect this properly in the next-but-one report that goes to Ken . |
| 24 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 25 | For the immediate future his influence contracted and was conspicuous only among the small group of monks who were his heirs in following his manner of prayer and meditation , and in collecting his works and his words . |
| 26 | Although it is difficult this long after the crucial debate to reconstruct correctly people 's positions from their own and others ' accounts , it does seem that , while some Free Presbyterian ministers in the party were opposed , others , including Paisley and Beattie , supported the new position . |
| 27 | Moxon and Kellett ( 87 ) , rattled up 203 together for the first wicket after Yorkshire had been put in to bat . |
| 28 | Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place |
| 29 | The ownership is now dependent only on the physical ability of the individual to retain possession . |
| 30 | The problem was to find exports with which to pay for it ; English woollens and iron products were not luxurious enough for the ruling class in India and were far too expensive for the vast majority of the population . |