Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 2 | You could tell something was badly wrong by the way the woman 's smile twisted and her body sagged . |
| 3 | The Opposition 's approach is revealing , although entirely understandable with the way the polls are going . |
| 4 | The rain certainly did come down during the night , it was so loud on the window the noise made it difficult to sleep . |
| 5 | Lord Weir told McCormack : ‘ It is only due to the fact a young boy saw what you did and , with some little risk to himself , removed the trolleys that an accident which might or might not have been serious , was avoided . ’ |
| 6 | Art checked his books , there were a lot of little marks on the end papers , other readers marking their patch no doubt , defiling narrative as dinosaurs have devoured other less fortunate in the past no doubt . |
| 7 | Lastly , the Government was obviously concerned about the way the press and radio could , by their manner of reporting , either build up or damage the reputations of political figures . |
| 8 | Just under 40 years ago , he and two other journalistic colleagues — one of them the late Ron Roberts — had the courage to call a public meeting because they were so concerned about the way the county club was being run . |
| 9 | In February 1704 the Lower House of Convocation presented the Upper House with a representation of the grievances of the clergy , which was fiercely critical of the way the bishops were running the Church : canons were being disobeyed , discipline unenforced , whilst everywhere episcopal administration was inefficient and corrupt . |
| 10 | But Ian Woosnam , five behind Brand after an opening two under par 70 , was fiercely critical of the way the course had been set up . |
| 11 | Then there is a report by Whitehall scrutineer , Sir Derek Rayner , which is highly critical of the way the government has handled energy conservation . |
| 12 | It is believed to have been highly critical of the way the department was operating , but again the contents of that report have never been disclosed . |
| 13 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 14 | The Catholic intelligentsia had been highly critical of the way the government had conducted itself : Blackfriars , the Oxford Dominican journal , had taken a line which I found especially sympathetic ; and D'Arcy , to whom I had sent my article , wrote to me expressing approval of my stand . |
| 15 | Colin Appleby , of the Midland Bank , is extremely pleased with the way the game has turned out . |
| 16 | he was was so pleased with the way the way it worked out he had never every done anything like that before |
| 17 | He is entitled to be so furious with the way the Home Office and Conservative Central Office behaved during the presidential election that Mr Major will never even make it on to his Christmas card list . |
| 18 | ‘ It is obviously disastrous for a club the size of Everton to be in the position they are in , but this could be the springboard . |
| 19 | In next to no time a puncture cost him his lead and a further 11 seconds . |
| 20 | If insufficient force is maintained , or relaxed for a moment , the aircraft will try and turn which will produce a roll and in next to no time the aircraft is inverted and on its way down . |
| 21 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 22 | Her parents had never really lived anywhere : they had inhabited studios and cottages and areas of other people 's houses and spent all their leisure time , which had been considerable , in pubs with other flamboyant artists and a few bitter intellectuals who were endlessly aggrieved at the turn the world was taking . |
| 23 | In practice , the number of members denied reselection was small ( only seven by the time the 1983 general election was called ) , but the issue served to highlight the more overt emphasis placed by Labour activists on a candidate 's political stance than was the case on the Conservative side . |
| 24 | The same report also notes the Park East council ward , which includes part of the estate , is the most deprived in the borough a calculation which takes into account factors such as car ownership . |
| 25 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 26 | The entire culture of university life has changed , largely due to the way the sector is funded by Government . |
| 27 | I apologize for the difficulties on getting er data out , more recent data largely due to the way the model is constructed at the moment . |
| 28 | ‘ They are not interested in the helping the kids enjoy themselves . |
| 29 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 30 | The movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism , and there 's a sustained central performance from Iain Glen , but the big problem is that the subject himself is not fascinating in the way the Krays were . |