Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The lane into the house was narrow and winding with too many gates so he parked the car on the wide grass margin beside the platform for the creamery cans .
2 She is cheerful and stoical like so many others in her position , but to any outsider it seems like a hard life .
3 Self-survival skills become paramount and evident in so many ways , as described by Newton ( 1980 ) .
4 I try my best to respond as intelligently as possible to as many consultations as I can manage .
5 Thus , surely there should not be more prestige matches played by fewer paid combatants in front of passive and hospitality-packaged crowds , but more active support for the playing of the game by as many players as possible at as many levels as possible .
6 Although advances such as secondary high-limit thermostats , which cut off the power if the fryer overheats , are now fitted as standard on almost all machines , there have been plenty of other developments .
7 If something completely or partly false , however innocuous , can be shown as real for so many years , then anything false can be shown as real , and be believed … .
8 But it is rich that John Major should talk of earning honours when his own Government is widely regarded as inept in so many ways .
9 With the inclusion of all three clauses , the force majeure clause should be regarded as reasonable in nearly all cases , and if the court finds one of the other two clauses unreasonable under s 3 , then the other should at least provide some protection .
10 Were the cases of poisoning and disease , now acknowledged as extraordinary by virtually all observers , the result of natural contamination or warfare ?
11 Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults .
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