Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind this and approximately where the recreation ground is now , was the village Butts , where in days past the villagers practised their archery . |
| 2 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 3 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 4 | However , they are most unlikely to solve the problem of excessive delays , partly because the limits themselves are so generous and partly because the prosecution is free in any event to ask for additional time . |
| 5 | Among the office holders named by the three leaders were : as secretary general Park Jun Byung , a DJP legislator since 1985 and before that an Army general who as commander of the 20th Division had been involved in the violent suppression of the 1980 Kwangju rebellion , a continuing source of bitterness within the South Korean political system ; as floor leader Kim Dong Young , former floor leader of the RDP and one of Kim Young Sam 's closest confidants ; and as chief policy maker Kim Yong Hwan , who had been elected to the National Assembly in 1987 and was one of the most experienced members of the NDRP . |
| 6 | There were no more dances in the balere to distract me ; partly because it was difficult to move freely from one village to another and partly because the evening curfew still applied . |
| 7 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 8 | It is both clearer and faster than the question and answer technique which many systems employ , and should be determined by the operation number entered . |
| 9 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 10 | In criticising the text-as-product view of cohesion in text , Morgan ( 1979 ) argues that we see a link between a particular pronoun and a full noun phrase in a text because we assume the text is coherent and not because the pronoun ‘ refers back ’ to the noun phrase . |
| 11 | With 24 teams competing in 52 matches staged over more that four weeks , this year 's World Cup competition in Italy will be the largest and longest since the tournament began in 1930 . |
| 12 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 13 | The chance that a random conglomeration of whale cells would swim , let alone swim as fast and efficiently as a whale actually does swim , is negligible . |
| 14 | Use of the section is purely optional and even if the company adopts it each member must be sent copies of the full accounts and reports if he wants to receive them . |
| 15 | No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’ |
| 16 | Apart from the community stocking budget being spent on just a couple of fish , the upkeep of many of my big fish is actually cheaper and easier than the community systems . |
| 17 | Darren has called the AA twice : once when the battery went flat and again when the distributor cap became soaked after the car was driven through flood water . |
| 18 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 19 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 20 | The close correspondence between the τ and r results suggests that the deviation from interval scale is slight and hence that the effect on results may not be radical ( Siegal , 1956 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ If we can have a full house this time that will be great and even if the crowd does n't scare them , it will certainly lift us . ’ |
| 22 | The young man stood as stiff and straight as the church columns around him . |
| 23 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 24 | Because a regression session is longer than one involving simple hypnotherapy , the patient tends to relax more and more as the session goes on . |
| 25 | Solutions of Einstein 's equation will be sought for sources that are nearly Newtonian , which means firstly that within the source the curvature and strain are small and secondly that the velocity v of the material within the source is very much less than c . |
| 26 | But the contention was put forward on Mr. Steed 's behalf that , even if the transfer were only voidable and notwithstanding that the building society was not implicated in and had had no notice of the Hammonds ' fraud , nonetheless the court had a discretionary power under section 82 of the Land Registration Act 1925 to order that the building society 's charge be deleted from the register , leaving Mr. Steed with an unencumbered title and the building society to claim an indemnity under section 83 . |
| 27 | Could we not have er I think procedure is could we not have the er er resolution for the at first and now that a ministry is in motion ? |
| 28 | Honours came thick and fast as the world recognised his achievements . |
| 29 | Up to 1980 , there were two and before that a number of riverside cottages at different times were shops . |
| 30 | Whichever way I turned looked bigger and wider and further than the other . |