Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 2 | And there are a few rather unflattering references to NCPR . |
| 3 | There were some rather good pieces of furniture and china . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The belief grew that the original patination had been black , possibly based on some rather oblique remarks in Pliny 's Natural History on treating bronzes with bitumen . |
| 6 | There were some rather dramatic episodes over hair styles . |
| 7 | Instead one group produced an entire family of curves ‘ stitched ’ from straight lines and some rather neat sequences of numbers to describe each one . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Citalia is offering some remarkably low prices for motorists taking their own cars in April , May and October to selected Country Villas in Tuscany and Umbria , and to apartments in Brenzone on Lake Garda and Diano Marina on the famous Italian Riviera . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) made some extremely good points about prospectuses , competition and the regulatory task . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For instance , Chandler 's in Kew import some extremely high-quality necks by Warmoth in the USA in just about every conceivable combination of woods , scale lengths , neck profiles and so on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since Amedee 's contributions to the world 's most butch game are made as an ‘ offensive co-ordinator ’ , the spectre is raised of some extremely rude sessions down Ambleside Avenue . |
| 18 | The work has now made possible some extremely interesting analyses of changes in time use over the last twenty-five years . |
| 19 | The three following quotations , taken from Part II of the manuscript , recover a few hitherto unsuspected facets of Thomas the young pre-Oxford writer . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the soldiers ' correspondence demonstrates , too , in spite of the known censorship , some highly critical comments about Hitler . |
| 21 | Beyond a few exceedingly brief encounters at dances attended by soldiers stationed around Barnard Castle , she apparently never had a romantic association . |
| 22 | Similarly , one of the few obviously valid arguments in favour of capital punishment is that executed offenders never re-offend afterwards . |
| 23 | Nor was it a particularly successful strategy , despite some apparently spectacular advances in Africa and Afghanistan . |
| 24 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yet if living together could create problems , it also resulted in some notably strong relationships between grandparents and grandchildren . |
| 27 | When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment . |
| 28 | Some also organised meetings for chairpersons and for training coordinators to help them with their new roles . |
| 29 | The er consultation and on the eighteen of August erm was circulated to many members on the fifth of the September , a thirteen page document erm , it was true to say that the er consultation paper contained some fairly radical proposals for changes in dealing with er gypsies and travellers . |
| 30 | I mean she is capable of getting through some fairly extraordinary amounts of work . |