Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | A distinct genus of plovers , whose wing-tips are always black and usually have a broad white bar , and whose tail is always white at the base and usually black at the tip . |
| 32 | Dowie had two chances to increase the lead after the interval , but just failed to reach a cross from Black and then saw a low shot kept out by the legs of goalkeeper Kapilarii . |
| 33 | Hannah never married and never had a close relationship , but she had her dreams . |
| 34 | Reynolds was elected Prime Minister by 84 votes to 78 in the Dáil on Feb. 11 and immediately announced a new Cabinet , replacing eight of Haughey 's 14 ministers . |
| 35 | They are rather slow-growing and usually take a good six months to reach 1″ . |
| 36 | He had previously had three vessel coronary bypass grafts in 1977 and then had a myocardial infarction after cardiac catheterisation for unstable angina in April 1991 . |
| 37 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 38 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 39 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 40 | I ca n't say I was extraordinarily good in the class , but neither was I bad , pretty average between one and ten and usually got a decent report . |
| 41 | It was joy for QE1 player Davy Clements who knocked in a 100 clearance in his B Division match against Centre Spot 's Mal Aiken while in the A Division Ballygomartin 's Billy Millar potted what can only be described as a wonder blue , pink and then missed a straight black for a similar break . |
| 42 | She was fun , and people liked to have her around because she was easy and undemanding and always had a quick reply . |
| 43 | In adults , normal bone marrow contains largely fat and therefore has a high signal . |
| 44 | It has been revised and updated and now includes a simple summary of legislation relating to deer in Britain , and a county-by-county guide to distribution . |
| 45 | Forest people are generally small and hence have a low maximal work capacity . |
| 46 | She did n't really smoke , but it was time-consuming and also provided a potential weapon . |
| 47 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 48 | A Sikorsky S-61N helicopter came to the hover over Runway 27 and then commenced a left turn to hover-taxi clear of the left side of the runway and thence towards the helicopter refuelling point . |
| 49 | It runs under Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and so needs a 386 machine and 2 Mbytes or more of RAM and a full installation requires 15Mbytes of space on your hard disk . |
| 50 | This new freedom to travel safely far and wide had a profound effect not only on men 's lives but also on their thoughts and beliefs ; these men who were being uprooted provided ‘ the background to the anxious thoughts of the religious leaders of the late second century ’ . |
| 51 | Subsidies were resumed in 1961 and thereafter had a chequered history with changing problems in housing supply and differing political judgements ( Burnett , 1978 ) . |
| 52 | That , that is carried by forty eight votes to twenty nine and now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 53 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
| 54 | There is a bug in versions of the filer up to and including version 3 that will cause the Z88 to crash if you use the device : RAM- and then perform a soft reset whilst any files are still present in the device . |
| 55 | Instead it demonstrated that Scotland is profoundly conservative and still possesses a robust and apparently irreducible Conservative and Unionist vote . |
| 56 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 57 | Erm the information that I have available to me would suggest therefore that the A nineteen erm when it 's dualled would be a superior and therefore to get a better score erm on on that criterion . |
| 58 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 59 | The ecumenical movement has reversed three centuries of division which began with the failure of the Savoy Conference in 1661 and the imposition of the Act of Uniformity , Today , Holy Communion is celebrated more frequently and with a set liturgy , often in an ‘ Anglican ’ way ; set prayers are common and sometimes take a responsory form ; the increasing use of a lectionary means that the choice of readings depends less upon the whim of the preacher and more upon an ordered scheme . |
| 60 | Insemination was defined as successful if the woman did not menstruate when expected and subsequently had a positive pregnancy test result . |