Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 2 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 3 | I 've a sizeable and airy garden studio — but with much glass and unheated when not in use . |
| 4 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 5 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 6 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 7 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 8 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 9 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 11 | This is the book where we keep their records , and of course it must always be kept securely under lock and key when not in use . ’ |
| 12 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
| 13 | Everything is overblown and inflated and out of control in the film business . ’ |
| 14 | We had a flood of cases : buildings of all types and sizes , of all styles and ages , but with one thing in common — they were disused and decaying and evidently in need of a new owner or a new use , as their present owners were being decidedly neglectful . |
| 15 | Cranmer had no desire to make the Anglican Church national in doctrine and ritual but only in jurisdiction . |
| 16 | Doth prowl , and round and round from door to door |
| 17 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 18 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 19 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 20 | In 1718 another older brother , Gerard , settled as a merchant in London , where Joshua joined him in 1722 , first as assistant and later as partner . |
| 21 | Champagne , the tipple of the Eighties , is shunned as hedonistic and not in keeping with the belt-tightening Nineties . |
| 22 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 23 | Science and technology thus ceases to be seen as autonomous but rather as part of an interesting system in which the internalised ideological assumptions help to determine the actual experimental designs and theories of the scientists and technologists themselves . |
| 24 | All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence . |
| 25 | The barbet species spread as far east as Bali but not into Lombok separated by only 15 miles ( 24 km ) of water . |
| 26 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |