Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's extremely clever , very kind and supportive and always interested in what I 'm doing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Roman had his back to her , tall and lean and impressively broad-shouldered in an expensive beige silk suit . |
| 6 | Her three rotor towers were taller and wider but very similar in construction and weight to those of the Buckau , thanks to the use of a new light aluminium alloy for their mantles . |
| 7 | The best Gorgonzolas should be clean and sharp and almost green in appearance rather than blue . |
| 8 | A similar contrast exists today in the cryptogamic flora of Lewis and the Uists , with several warmth-demanding species of shaded rocks and ravines ( e.g. Dryopteris aemula , Marchesinia mackaii , Lophocolea fragrans , Jubula hutchinsiae ) being present in the Uists but absent or very rare in Lewis . |
| 9 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |
| 10 | He is also happy to abandon any claim implying that theories can be established as true or probably true in the light of observational evidence . |