Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the man or woman in the fast lane , keeping in touch while you 're on the move is safer and simpler than ever before with the new British Telecom 's Azure cellphone . |
| 2 | The dorsal arm plates are very thin , visible only in dried specimens and often it is necessary to dissolve away the skin , nearly rectangular and contiguous or nearly so at least on proximal segments . |
| 3 | The radial shields are large and contiguous or nearly so in spinea while they are quite small , usually separated and confined to the edge of the disk in hamula. 3 . |
| 4 | Miss Harker seemed to walk in a cloud of fragrance — even the air round her was somehow airier and lighter than anywhere else in the musty room . |
| 5 | More interesting is the sub-group of people who not only work full-time and full-year but also exclusively for one organisation . |
| 6 | Again the ‘ norm ’ itself is somewhat arbitrary in black and white and still more in colour , where , for example , many actors gain a reddish tone in their hair because the colour is balanced to give ‘ acceptable ’ pinkish/brown skin tones . |
| 7 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 8 | ( One might subtract the perception of the past from the perception of the future and smooth that once more as an index of optimism over time . ) |
| 9 | Undoubtedly work is necessary and important but surely not to be used as a yardstick for everything … |
| 10 | Owen waited as usual for her to recover , talking quietly meanwhile with Jane Postlethwaite , who stole a glance at her from time to time , sympathetic and concerned but also slightly at a loss . |
| 11 | His hair was white and powdered and long enough to be tied in a small black silk bow . |
| 12 | She 's not her usual self — the clothes are alien , if softer and infinitely easier on the body than her own , and her cropped head is bare . |
| 13 | The leaves are spectacularly large and green but frankly not worth doubling your mortgage for . |
| 14 | However , the type of cynicism greeting the arrival of Haines , who was officially introduced to the media yesterday on his second day in office , smacks very much of a ‘ Pavlov 's dogs ’ response which assumes every move the Club makes is anachronistic and autocratic and therefore automatically to be shot down in flames . |
| 15 | Is it not more plausible that the minuet was all along danced both fast and slow and everywhere in between , that it was played ‘ faster or slower , according to the tune that is played , which the dancer is obliged to follow ’ ? |
| 16 | Besides mobilising thousands in mass rallies , thus involving the common people as Gandhi had done in India in 1921 and 1931 and somewhat chaotically in 1942 ( but not in the final tussle for power ) Aung San also constructed a power base in the people 's Volunteer Organisation or PVO ( in Burmese , Pyithu Yebaw Tat ) . |
| 17 | Henry Cotton , who won the Open in 1934 and 1937 and then again in 1948 kept up British hopes . |
| 18 | Thus herbage seeds can not be sown as early or as late in the year as the cereals so frequently used as cover or nurse crops . |
| 19 | He supported Parliament 's measures against blasphemy and the Adultery Act of 1650 , though he regarded them as inadequate and insufficiently close to scripture . |