Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 2 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 3 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 4 | The switchgear layout , however , is more sci-fi than ergonomic and very little about the operation of the driving environment seems intuitive . |
| 5 | The first is that the source format be such that all or nearly all of the available computing tools can be applied to it . |
| 6 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 7 | It could well be , however , that most or even all of Ape 's supporters prefer Camel to Bear , and symmetrically that most or even all of Bear 's supporters prefer Camel to Ape . |
| 8 | It could well be , however , that most or even all of Ape 's supporters prefer Camel to Bear , and symmetrically that most or even all of Bear 's supporters prefer Camel to Ape . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's extremely clever , very kind and supportive and always interested in what I 'm doing . |
| 10 | Is the land flat and low and so liable to be flooded ? |
| 11 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 12 | The Hungarian people are warm and friendly and very open to the Gospel . |
| 13 | Once oestrogen levels fall , the bone becomes less dense and strong and more liable to fracture . |
| 14 | It is a savage and immensely powerful piece of sculpture , reminding one that Christianity is not a religion of sweetness and light and that much of its appeal must have lain in its very primitivism . |
| 15 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 16 | It does not matter if some or even all of the beetles have died before you receive the culture , as the culture contains plenty of live larvae and they will soon produce the pupae you need . |
| 17 | If some or even most of them do not respond , how can we know whether the answers that we have got are representative ? |
| 18 | The whole area , a band 50 miles wide and hundreds or maybe thousands of miles long , is alive — rearing and plunging , writhing and creaking — as the future shape of a portion of the world is determined for the next aeon of geologic time . |
| 19 | Most UK universities publicly aspire to such intensive provision — e.g. 1:1 ratio of workstations:academics , 1:4 for research students , and 1:10 and then 5 for undergraduates — but are finding the level of resources required to achieve and sustain such provision very difficult to engineer in an environment of devolved budgets and uneven ‘ soft money ’ distribution . |
| 20 | Equally striking and individual although aesthetically remote from the Lichtenstein , Falling Figure of 1947 by Stanley William Hayter who remains one of the most under-rated figures in the realm of modern art although recognised as the father of printmaking and creator of Atelier 17 in Paris and then in New York . |
| 21 | At the same time I reminded her that she was feeling comfortable and relaxed and completely free from tension . |
| 22 | He covered her trembling body with his muscled hardness and she felt the weight of his arousal , full and hard and infinitely exciting against her thighs . |
| 23 | The history of that provision and its abolition demonstrates clearly that income arising in an overseas company which is , for instance , owned by an overseas trust , is not income arising under a settlement for the purposes of TA 1988 , Part XV , Chapters III and IV or indeed any of the other provisions of Part XV . |
| 24 | Designed some 55 years ago to provide ‘ safe , easy stable handling ’ for the aerial Buick drivers of America , this oddball design is unstallable and unspinnable and usually devoid of rudder pedals . |
| 25 | Organisation is divided into the representational level , which employs symbols to carry meaning , and the automatic level , where behaviour is highly organised and integrated but less susceptible to volun-tary control . |
| 26 | She looked terrible , pale and yawning and strangely bare without her eyelashes . |
| 27 | What we are going to say is simply that the parts of this diet which are easy and effortless and even enjoyable to you will become part of your normal eating in the future . |
| 28 | That gain would , on the basis that he was domiciled and resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom at some stage during the tax year , fall as a matter of general law to be attributed to him . |
| 29 | The size and shape of the individual motifs vary considerably , but as a general rule , they tend to be larger and bolder in village and nomadic rugs , and smaller and more delicate in workshop items . |
| 30 | But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers . |