Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 2 | Single mothers and separated mothers were the next largest groups at around 20 per cent each and widows and lone fathers ( of whom two thirds are divorced or separated and almost a quarter widows ) are the smallest groups . |
| 3 | Add a few other programs and a game or two and even a 100Mb drive is starting to look a little small . |
| 4 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 5 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 6 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 7 | By way of a quite proper analogy , suppose there were a certain amazing truth , that all and only the members of one species of tree , say Turner 's Oak , could be described in a given language by sentences of a certain deep structure , or simply a rare surface-grammatical sequence : indefinite article , a curious gerund , preposition of a certain sort , and so on . |
| 8 | In this particular case many more than 3,800 papers were transferable so that the value of each paper was less than .01 and therefore no transfers could be made . |
| 9 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 10 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 11 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 12 | A pupil at Hummersknott School , she is studying for GCSEs and hopes to go on to do A levels in politics , economics and English and eventually a degree . |
| 13 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 14 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 15 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 16 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
| 17 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
| 18 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 19 | The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family . |
| 20 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
| 22 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 23 | Jan Hus preached here between 1402 and 1413 and later the Bethlehem Chapel became one of the centres of the Reformation . |
| 24 | Put it in a train in a comfortable seat with two hours of peace and quiet and not a contraflow within cursing distance , and let its brakes off . |
| 25 | But that and then the rest of the land is is open countryside E two land . |
| 26 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 27 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 28 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 29 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |