Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's more or less opposite where your father 's shoe shop was . |
| 2 | When the prince heard the story , over a conference table littered with notes , despatches and letters , he first opened eyes and mouth wide with shock and disbelief , and cried : ‘ Never say so ! ’ and then as suddenly laughed aloud , crowing : ‘ A judgment ! ’ , looking , for once , a year or so less than his age and capable of mischief ; and then he looked very grave indeed , and sat staring moodily at his table-full of papers , and said , dismayed : ‘ The king will be out of himself with anger . |
| 3 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 4 | If you are blind or physically disabled or your work regularly takes you away from home , you may qualify to vote by post or proxy for an indefinite period . |
| 5 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 6 | Canetti is not , I think , earnestly recording his life ; his passion is really for the others he writes about , be they as famous as Brecht or as obscure as his landlady . |
| 7 | It was hard to tell if he was more discomforted at being accused of being as lecherous or as old as his father-in-law . |
| 8 | Averment that the plaintiff married Ellen Nicholl , relying on the said promise and so married while his income as a Chancery barrister did not amount to 600 guineas per annum . |
| 9 | The bed was far too low for ease of nursing and so large that its cotton sheets did n't fit . |
| 10 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 11 | ( Unfortunately , this sometimes makes it rather worthy and less punchy than her writing on women . ) |
| 12 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 13 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 14 | We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational . |
| 15 | Another theory says that Jesus was only apparently human , another that he was adopted by God when he died , and still another that his body was human but his personality was divine . |
| 16 | Not so : the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades . |
| 17 | Another training officer at this firm was a married man , less extravagant and more self-disciplined than his counterpart , although lacking his flair . |
| 18 | When it emerged the Saro London showed a family resemblance to an earlier S E Saunders design , the A.7 Severn , but although some design features of the Severn were incorporated into the London , this new boat was much stronger and more sophisticated than its predecessor . |
| 19 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 20 | The second half was pretty hectic but Jackson 's confidence spread to the entire defence and the star-studded City forward line grew more and more frustrated as their celebration night went sour . |
| 21 | Suzie 's only seventeen and both I and my mother are frantic about her safety . |
| 22 | Because FI , in the wake of Renault , was shifting towards the turbo engine and because McLaren was beginning to develop the TAG/ Porsche engine , 1982 was something of a transitional year at the team and both Niki and his team-mate John Watson suffered in the results table , Watson actually finishing ahead of Niki in the championship , the first time he had ever been upstaged within his own team . |
| 23 | High above and far other than our world |
| 24 | To line the can , cut out a rectangle of paper as long as the circumference of the can and as wide as its depth . |
| 25 | To cover the sides of the cake , roll out a long strip of marzipan as long as the circumference of the cake and as wide as its depth ( hint : the circumference of a round cake is three times its diameter ) . |
| 26 | Ryan had been as warm and as welcoming as his father . |
| 27 | A relationship is only as deep and as effective as its communication . |
| 28 | I want you to promise me that you will keep your intelligence as alive and as visible as your beauty . ’ |
| 29 | Our relationship between any lottery director and G Tec as a company has always been professional and above reproach and as far as our relationship with the current director in California , we 've had instances were we 've been successful in California in gaining business while she was a director , and we 've been unsuccessful . |
| 30 | And as far as our group 's vision statement is concerned , to be acknowledged as the leading consultant in the rail er in the field of railway engineering . |