Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head . |
| 2 | This material was most durable and the powdered marble imparted a brilliance to the finished surface . |
| 3 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 4 | ‘ Nigel is so laid-back and a real joker but he works like hell and gets the horses very fit . |
| 5 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 6 | The rock is extremely unstable and the hanging boulder field above both areas means that the finishes to the truncated climbs are exceptionally dangerous . |
| 7 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 8 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 9 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 10 | It 's just that we feel the human body can take so much and the English season is a long and punishing one as it it . |
| 11 | The RUC men who had conducted the police investigations were fiercely indignant and a senior officer threatened to resign . |
| 12 | Managers will wish to know if the body clock means that there are times when the output of their work-force is below standard and the general public will be concerned about the possibility that safety in industrial processes , public services , transportation , etc. will be adversely affected at some times . |
| 13 | The bridge pickup provides a healthy kick , the neck pickup is a little less screechy and the middle position is quite well-mannered . |
| 14 | He found two types , the highly suspicious and the willing business partners . |
| 15 | The demand for cheap beef arose when North American beef soared in price , — cattle ranching in South America is far less costly and a lucrative business deal for wealthy landowners . |
| 16 | The passage itself was less metaphorical and the contextual information which Bransford and Johnson supplied was a picture rather than a title . |
| 17 | To be able to inject this realism it 's extremely good and a big step forward |
| 18 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 19 | The morphological nature of the neck is highly problematical and the available evidence suggests that something more than an enlarged intersegmental region may be involved . |
| 20 | In the fourth , teaching throughout the school was highly traditional and the new head was keen to use the project in support of entirely new moves towards the establishment of interdisciplinary and local studies in the lower school . |
| 21 | When Leeds City arrived for their meeting with the Gunners ( which they lost 1–0 ) , on 6 December , 1913 , the Highbury ground was still only half-finished and a wooden stand on the east side , designed for 9,000 spectators , was still being built . |
| 22 | Moreover , as the urban/industrial complex becomes ever more predominant agricultural resentment will become less vocal and the rural sector 's capacity to oppose weaker . |
| 23 | So , I 'm sorry it 's so complicated and the final week 's reading is also a book er erm the actual book is got rid of that chapter . |
| 24 | Our purpose is less exacting and a simple application using the familiar 555 timer gives us an effective PWM with a minimum of components and a duty cycle variation from about 20 per cent to 70 per cent . |
| 25 | Purely illustrated papyri are extremely rare and the artistic quality of this one is very fine , comparable to the painted casket of Tutankhamun , now in the Cairo Museum . |
| 26 | ‘ However , he is extremely plausible and a good talker . |
| 27 | This year the prize table was especially attractive and the wide variety of ‘ white elephants ’ presented quite a problem of which to choose for the higher scoring competitors . |
| 28 | Experience in the use of computer modelling is highly desirable and a high degree of numeracy is essential . |
| 29 | I regard that form of protection as highly desirable and an important part of our proposals . |
| 30 | The Forest Deer had more than just the antlers sticking out of his costume , the animal ballet was just that and an X-rated version of ‘ Hi-Ho ’ was rendered by seven stage-hands with boots on their knees . |