Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From her vantage point she watched them come in : serious-looking lads in duffle coats , earnest women in glasses and hand-knitted cardigans , the clerical students from the religious seminaries in their black suits all looking remarkably cleaner and neater than the other males not bound for religious life . |
| 2 | She had grown so tall and disrespectful that the old woman was afraid to hit her . |
| 3 | This phenomenon was particularly impressive in the north , which had hitherto been far less advanced and progressive than the southern , Mediterranean countries , the seats of ancient empires . |
| 4 | Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released . |
| 5 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 6 | His approach to personality , by way of descriptive set-pieces , robust dialogue and direct explanation , may seem to be less subtle and complex than the post-Freudian attitude of C. S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian . |
| 7 | She was extremely wet and cold and the very last thing she needed was this man 's mockery . |
| 8 | What they do then is scale a cliff , clambering from one ledge to another until they 're perched on one so high and narrow that the leopard ca n't follow . |
| 9 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 10 | But the GMC 's rule against advertising was not so irrational or unreasonable that the court would interfere . |
| 11 | But the GMC 's rule against advertising was not so irrational or unreasonable that the court would interfere . |
| 12 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | She will be half pleased to see him and half disapproving ; and that will be the beginning once again of something so painful and awkward that the possibility of happiness must be concealed in it somewhere . |
| 14 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 15 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 16 | The church was so vast and empty that the vicar 's words rolled away into the gloom . |
| 17 | Edwin Frere looked into Agnew 's old face and saw only hopeless consternation there , as though he too were overwhelmed with feelings so vast and flood-like that no word might answer them . |
| 18 | What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ? |
| 19 | However , there is theoretical evidence that the Martian exposure to asteroids was higher over the last few 1000 Ma than in more recent times , which scales the ages down such that all but the more heavily cratered terrain is less than about 2000 Ma old . |
| 20 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 21 | They looked so filthy and disreputable that a woman walking her dog stopped to stare at them as they straggled wearily across the wide , almost deserted beach . |
| 22 | On large scale cinema-type systems , HDTV can produce theatre quality images which , combined with CD-quality sound , create an ‘ experience ’ so life-like and realistic that the viewer can barely resist the urge to reach out and touch . |
| 23 | With iron gords , or hoops as the rich people called them , and with clashes and tensions no less thrilling and dangerous than the real thing , we competitively raced until we dropped . |
| 24 | The state apparatus has become so corrupt and exploitative that the common man sees it as an enemy . |
| 25 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 26 | erm several hundred million peasants will rise like a mighty storm , like a hurricane , a force so swift and violent that no power , however great , will be able to hold it back . |
| 27 | The time for which the oesophageal pH was below 4 and 5 after the meal was consumed was calculated as a percentage of the total postprandial recording time . |
| 28 | However , the calculations required to find out whether or not there were any infinities left uncanceled were so long and difficult that no one was prepared to undertake them . |
| 29 | I much prefer this Bernstein performance to his later one with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra , which is so self-indulgent and slow that the final Adagio loses both shape and momentum . |
| 30 | The negotiations were extremely complex and detailed and the whole issue has been referred to the next stage of IBOA/Bank procedures which is an Independent Tribunal . |