Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cardinal himself never pretended otherwise , but people whose doubts are depressingly real can easily forget this and become discouraged by such a standard . |
| 2 | I am thirty years old and have lived in this country for twenty-one years . |
| 3 | I am eleven-and-a-half years old and have lived in this country for two years . |
| 4 | In rural areas , despite soaring inflation , wages have been frozen by government decree since 1979 and have dropped in real terms by 69.3% between 1971–81 . |
| 5 | Second , once divested of their zonae , embryos of all stages are very sticky and tend to adhere to one another as well as to most culture dishes . |
| 6 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 7 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 8 | This is extremely confusing if you upgrade from version 4.2 to version 4.5 and have to refer to two manuals with identical titles containing different information . |
| 9 | Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain . |
| 10 | The existence of such systems is less important than the fact that they are technically feasible and get reported as such . |
| 11 | They are poor and have to cope with young and demanding children on their own . |
| 12 | The effects of the uncertainty principle will then become very important and seem to point to some remarkable results . |
| 13 | I want to help South Africa become democratic and prosperous and avoid descending into further violence and poverty . ’ |
| 14 | Q I 'm 34 and have suffered for several years from intermittent burning pains in my knees , which often keep me awake . |