Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |
| 2 | I have since heard of a Roman Catholic nun who was also a doctor , who was allowed to train part time to fit in with her religious duties . |
| 3 | Laura could n't seem to tear her eyes away as she absorbed the man 's hawk-like , tanned face and the sensual appeal of his tall , broad-shouldered body elegantly clad in a black long-tailed jacket and dark-striped trousers . |
| 4 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 5 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 6 | For Craigendarroch is wholly owned by a major public company , Cannon Street Investments P.L.C. |
| 7 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 8 | Once again , there were several guest players in a New South Wales Country team which performed with great energy and enthusiasm , although the country boys were eventually subdued by a rampant Scottish pack . |
| 9 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |
| 10 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 11 | It arises when an immune animal is suddenly exposed to a massive larval challenge , usually from a heavily contaminated field . |
| 12 | HOWEVER MUCH THE hotel maid sprinkled her lemon scouring powder , the salle de bains ( so designated by a chipped blue-and-white oval enamel plaque ) still smelled of stagnant drains , as if it functioned as an extension of the narrow street outside , where a section of the gutter exuded a steady reek of staleness , sweetish-sour , and not entirely unpleasant to Miranda . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's right , be a disappointment to me , ’ said Mrs Cousins , warmly clad in a dark brown woollen dress with huge leg-of-mutton sleeves now going out of fashion . |
| 14 | A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant . |
| 15 | The message is apparently contained in a 220-page apostolic exhortation to the clergy , most of which is uncontentious : priests must be ascetic and chaste as well as celibate , taking a keen and benevolent interest in the poor and in sinners , who are the poor in spirit . |
| 16 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 17 | The research done by the HDRA has shown that the hover flies are much attracted by a bright little annual plant , much beloved in old-style cottage gardens , which rejoices in the delightful common name ‘ poached egg plant ’ , as each whitish flower has a golden yellow centre just like a poached or fried egg . |
| 18 | Due to the pilot nature of the scheme it is only operating in a few selected areas initially , which is why your parish has not been contacted . |
| 19 | This was an entirely false statement , obviously damaging to a thriving professional musician . |
| 20 | Somehow her own anger and his frustration together turned into a mutual all-embracing passion , and they clung together , hating and loving at the same time . |
| 21 | The Israeli delegation rejected such an interpretation and insisted that it would only negotiate with a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation . |
| 22 | It was as if when she caught her breath she would necessarily break into a hysterical laughing and crying . |
| 23 | Drake is only waterfowl with a drooping black crest , and is readily recognised , even at some distance , by strongly contrasted black upperparts and white flanks . |
| 24 | Herbs too are a practical addition so keep them near the back door , perhaps framed with a fragrant low hedge of lavender or santolina . |
| 25 | When he was a few feet away , Mait 's features suddenly twisted into a malevolent burning-eyed glare , and he spat a single word at the man : ‘ Die ! ’ |
| 26 | We had unlimited German labour available , and also at our command their talent for organization , which is rightly seen as a German national characteristic . |
| 27 | She looked over the packed hall , from the front seat where sat Group Captain Peasmarsh and his Wing-Commanders , through the different grades , all merged into a dusty blue mass dotted with white blobs . |
| 28 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 29 | I was fortunate to find between the leaves of a large book an exquisitely penned transcription of the Commandments and the Lord 's Prayer , all embraced in a delicate architectural framework , dating from the late eighteenth century . |
| 30 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |