Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an insult to the many managers and workers who responded so well for the hon. Gentleman to imply that they were less than efficient and hard working in those difficult circumstances . |
| 2 | ‘ The life that goes out in love to all is the life that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power . ’ |
| 3 | Given the status patterns discerned one might expect that even if technology were to achieve high status and acceptance the version which would ‘ count as education ’ would be academic and theoretical and therefore stand in contradiction to more practical objectives . |
| 4 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 5 | The panelled dining room and lounge ( with TV ) are sun-lit in the morning ( in cooler weather the dining room glows with a log fire ) , and the four comfortable spacious bedrooms are light and airy and attractively furnished in period furniture and antiques . |
| 6 | Utility underwear was strong and serviceable but totally lacking in glamour . |
| 7 | The development of high quality open learning texts is expensive and those that already exist in chemistry have in major part been produced using public funds . |
| 8 | However , we did find a strong influence on the occurrence of episodes severe enough to lead the mother to take the child to a clinic , and those that subsequently resulted in the child being admitted to hospital , as well as an effect on mortality . |
| 9 | He resented the automatic assumption that he would look after Elaine , even though he had to admit that he was so tired and amazed that even scribbling in a notebook or commenting on the decoration were beyond his capabilities . |
| 10 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 11 | It is also found at the base of the neo-classical economic theory of capitalism , with its basic tenet of man as a maximizing individual with limitless needs and desires — a notion Sahlins deconstructed many years ago ( 1974 ) , but one that still persists in Western economic and political thought , and which underlies much of the anthropology of conflict . |
| 12 | Mary was pensioned off soon after this and now lives in a rage in Malta , where it is feared she is writing her memoirs . |
| 13 | It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 : |
| 14 | What he does do , though , is present these foes as mysterious and indefinably threatening in a haunting manner : ‘ For though they bodies seeme , yet substance from them fades ’ ( II , IX , 15 ) . |