Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cheer this up a little or to add an interesting note , you could add a touch of ylang-ylang , taget , bergamot or perhaps frankincense . |
| 2 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 3 | They 'd have to hunt us down or suffer a severe loss of credibility . |
| 4 | Never run down or criticize a past employer , even if you have to refer to disagreements . |
| 5 | skipping perhaps or swinging a frayed rope |
| 6 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 7 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
| 8 | She knew better than to take a wanted man near the Welsh gate ; but the castle gate was the one land approach to the town , the eastward and inviolable gate , overshadowed by the bulk of the castle and the strength of its garrison . |
| 9 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 10 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 11 | I found the erm structured thought patterns and the span of conception is very interesting in the fact that you do things in threes and obviously that gives a certain logic net to everything that you do and the way that you prepare your presentation . |
| 12 | The only road was a quarter of a mile away up a track , leading down to the campsite itself , so that made the immediate area pretty safe . |
| 13 | We shall here use adjectival position to mean any construction which has the function of realizing some distinct pattern of intensional relations , and which meets the following criteria : ( a ) It contains an adjective as one of its elements ; ( b ) It is minimally extended for that adjective , i.e. there are no further elements dependent on the adjective ( since all such phrases will reduce in their structural effect to a single occurrence of adjective anyway ) ; ( c ) It is minimally complete for that adjective ; that is , the adjective achieves its structural effect within the construction , so that setting the whole pattern into a larger construction can not change the effective value of the adjective . |
| 14 | So that covers the next point about plurals . |
| 15 | She also reminded readers that the Oscar can get hooked on one type of food and refuse all others — so that offering a varied diet was important . |
| 16 | So that means every four year there 's an extra day which we need to take account of . |
| 17 | There 's going to be eating more flies , so you need more swallows , so that looks the right way up . |
| 18 | It 's the needles that knit the cotton thread only that give the lacy effect . |
| 19 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 20 | Blufton seemed trustworthy enough and had no direct relationship with Nicola . |
| 21 | ‘ ( The state ) thinks a security confrontation is enough and rejects the real way to ensure full security and real peace , ’ Gamal Badawi wrote . |
| 22 | The evidence given by the HM Inspectorate ( Scotland ) to the 1968 Select Committee is however complete enough and shows a good spread of backgrounds . |
| 23 | Two major " betrayals " in five years were more than enough and created the permanent attitude of mistrust towards leadership which characterized radicals in the labour movement from then onwards . |
| 24 | They cooperate better and take an active part in their recovery . |
| 25 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 26 | The gunmen continued to fire at the house after he managed to scramble inside and slam the front door shut . |
| 27 | Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post . |
| 28 | ‘ Take care of yourself , kid , ’ Whitlock said softly then went inside and closed the sliding door behind him . |
| 29 | She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief . |
| 30 | Would the balance of power tilt further ; would the liberal constitution of limited participation and limited intervention be forced to expand outwards and assume a liberal-democratic form in which all adults had the vote ? |