Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
| 2 | In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive . |
| 3 | er , erm , speaking in favour of the motion against the amendment , quite strongly against the amendment because I do n't believe it moves that debate any further and the debate , as a number of speakers have said , will go on beyond this chamber , Chair . |
| 4 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 5 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 6 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 7 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 8 | Efficient waste management requires that hazardous materials are defined and treated more carefully than the very large volumes of non-hazardous wastes . |
| 9 | Benedicta 's eyes rounded in surprise but she smiled and agreed so quickly that the friar wondered if she , too , felt the kinship between them . |
| 10 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 11 | If the casserole is still quite liquid , remove the lid from the pan and simmer more quickly until the sauce is reduced . |
| 12 | That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral . |
| 13 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 14 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
| 15 | To begin with she heard nothing to justify her fright , and got as far as the staircase between floors before the lift began to hum . |
| 16 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
| 17 | As Savage puts it , ‘ a hundred shares can be organised and directed more easily than a hundred workers ’ . |
| 18 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 19 | You 're never very far from urban centres but the walk sidesteps and swerves as cleverly as the best Welsh fly-halves to follow a largely rural route . |
| 20 | Stand the bowl over a pan of simmering water and heat very gently until the chocolate begins to melt . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear . |
| 22 | I had straightened up and moved aside so that the sun no longer dazzled me and I could see Sweetman properly , and what I saw I did not like . |
| 23 | Some young men never have really thought about personal hygiene very much and react very badly if the subject is mentioned . |
| 24 | To live by ungrounded values , which even if organized as rationally as a science have only an inward coherence without external support , has come to be widely accepted as the quintessentially modern condition . |
| 25 | One particular article written in July issue 1967 called ‘ A Case of the Emotional Painter ’ by Dimitri Dejanikus I take out and re-read more often than the others . |
| 26 | The Lords does much good work , contains many wise men and women , and acts more disinterestedly than the Commons . |
| 27 | And George Felse dived forward at the jerking ankles under the archway , felt his way forward towards the knees , and hauled strongly backwards as the roof sagged slowly and ponderously inwards on top of Gus Hambro . |
| 28 | Y'know , we 've been dead and buried as far as a lot of people are concerned , but this album will put us back up there . |
| 29 | In order to display particular native features , the traditional circle , chain and couple dance formations must be broken up and opened outwards so that the steps are seen clearly by the audience . |
| 30 | And run smartly backwards when the tarpaulin comes down . ’ |