Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 2 | She had been all but asleep and possibly incoherent . |
| 3 | This was Bunhill Fields , where pilgrims came to pay their respects to John Bunyan and Isaac Watts , much as later and more politicised generations visit Highgate Cemetery to honour Karl Marx . |
| 4 | The hardships we are suffering in the recession are nothing compared to the hell of the Bosnian detention camps , and if we can not find the cash to help what amounts to very few of them then we are morally as well as economically bankrupt . |
| 5 | At one end of the spectrum of opinion were xenophobic seclusionists who argued that relations with foreigners would be morally as well as politically disastrous . |
| 6 | Paralysed by fear of ‘ the progressive ’ , this stunted generation have chosen to take as their inspiration the sprightly , cramped insistence of The Monochrome Set , The Undertones , Girls at Our Best , rather than the stealth and reach of Can , Tim Buckley , Hendrix , Talking Head 's Remain in Light , PIL 's Metal Box , chosen to explore an emotional climate of suave nonchalance or at best pensive mawkishness , rather than denser and more elusive feelings ; chosen to prefer the banal clarity of ‘ communication ’ over the glare of revelation and the clouded vision of horror . |
| 7 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 8 | Get enough exercise during the day to be physically as well as mentally tired . |
| 9 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 10 | But , apart from that , the only flats she could see were still as small and impossibly expensive . |
| 11 | Of this day nearer than that because more important . |
| 12 | Poised , suggestive , but nowhere near as funny or as savage as it should have been . |
| 13 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 14 | Fantasy may be experienced both as pleasurable and as dangerous . |
| 15 | To this end , it is necessary that there should be intercommunication not only about particular design decisions but also about underlying philosophies so that the ultimate system is conceptually as well as operationally coherent . |
| 16 | Tomas turns out to be sexually as well as politically opportunistic , resulting in vengeance , desperation and a lot of emotional broken glass . |
| 17 | Written by the University Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University author of a number of books on East-West relations it is delivered in a grindingly dull style : ‘ From painting , drawing , engraving , and imagery on china-ware , Americans were left with no doubt that the Chinese were culturally as well as physically different from Europeans . ’ |
| 18 | Other secondary minerals formed during weathering include those composed of oxides and hydroxides of iron and aluminium and , less significantly , of titanium oxide , as well as amorphous or finely crystalline silica . |
| 19 | We had the equivalent of paperbacks at 50p as well as beautiful but more expensive delights . |
| 20 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 21 | Quangos , in fact , are analogous to pressure groups ; both involve tiny , relatively insignificant groupings , as well as massive and extremely powerful organizations . |
| 22 | The latter , which will be discussed in the section after this , are of course considerably complicated by the problem of ‘ distance ’ , particularly when two or more separate organizations are involved . |
| 23 | The transfer of ideas between scientists , disregarding for the moment the nature of the medium used for exchange , can be described either as personal or as formal . |
| 24 | A characteristic of many Gnostic sects was to treat the sacraments either as magic or as mere symbols for a subjective psychological state within the individual believer . |
| 25 | By the inter-war years married women were no longer regarded primarily as ornamental and sexually innocent creatures ; the ideal companionate marriage also involved an expectation of sexual harmony . |
| 26 | At the same time it can exploit the low thermal conductivity of the air ; i.e. the way the temperature of the air itself is neither as hot nor as cool as the land surface . |
| 27 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 28 | So the English village is neither as immemorial nor as unchanging as it is conventionally believed to be . |
| 29 | Temporary , partial scleroses in the 1950s encouraged gloomy prognoses , but the British novel is neither as dead nor as indisposed to innovation as its critics have sometimes supposed . |
| 30 | My reaction to female flesh was neither as extreme nor as ignorant as that , and it was only my own , not that of other women , which caused me to feel revulsion . |