Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I chose Tufa which is cheap and easily obtainable and quite a good substitute for real coral rock . |
2 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
3 | Where there is such a controlling stratum it must become socially and politically dominant and therefore a ruling class . |
4 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
5 | Finally , two other points , admittedly only suggestive , might be mentioned : first , the fact that Mehmed II is noted for his activity in organizing , and centralizing control over , the various institutions of the state in a number of ways ; and second , the fact that the Sahn was not only part of his most important pious endowment in his newly-conquered capital of Istanbul , but also far and away the most extensive medrese complex thus far created in the Ottoman state . |
6 | The national priorities are predominantly concerned with the development of areas of the curriculum seen as economically useful and neither the humanities nor the arts are included in this category . |
7 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |