Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment Mr Sowerberry returned and , hearing what had happened ( according to the ladies ) , he beat Oliver so hard that even Mr Bumble and Mrs Sowerberry were satisfied . |
| 2 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | The turn of the conversation was so unexpected that even Mr Cottle tuned in to hear the outcome . |
| 4 | These factors led to a pattern of ‘ top-ten ’ thinking It is repeatedly stated that in each major industry sector — and in the world electronics industry itself — only ten or so world players will survive . |
| 5 | However , a variety of problems can occur which will result in one or more radiators on the system being only lukewarm or even stone cold . |
| 6 | Working in Habitat on Kings Road proved to be depressingly similar and again Ms Ledson was paid off , that time after three weeks . |
| 7 | No thought of any homework , and it was patently obvious that only Imran Khan and Javed Mianded seemed to be recognisable down there . |
| 8 | He is more popular than either Margaret Thatcher or Neil Kinnock . |
| 9 | But as Weber is more concerned with explaining the meaning of social action than with analysis of political power ( though he is also interested in power ) , his concept of ‘ elite ’ is altogether broader ? more analytical and more flexible than either Wright Mills 's or Mosca 's . |
| 10 | Liberal Democrat Robert Maclennan formerly Labour and briefly SDP leader in 1987–88 , looks unassailable with more than 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 11 | As far as actually Pebble Mill the programme . |
| 12 | And Surtees Cook himself , as loving as ever Mr Browning was to her mistress . |
| 13 | Instead its concepts — like sharing responsibility between parents and the state , reaching agreements and partnerships — have a surprisingly communitarian or even collectivist ring about them . |
| 14 | It has been argued recently that by 1750 , urban workers especially were working " a very disciplined , formalised , surprisingly regular and long working week " . |
| 15 | Right , at the last Committee , it was suggested that the figures be presented to Committee on a town by town basis , I E not the wider travel to work areas , the reason being that the travel to work areas are , are quite large and sometimes mask differences in rates of unemployment between different settlements . |
| 16 | From the relative positions of the 1989 fracture and the gravity high ( Figs 1 and 2 ) , it appears that the intrusion is either vertical and about 100m west of the fracture , or inclined downwards west away from the fracture . |
| 17 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 18 | When you think about it , a lot of people will look very foolish when finally de Vere can not be evaded . |
| 19 | I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist . |
| 20 | While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning . |
| 21 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |