Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At only £49.95 it 's available in grey , black or white and well worth a second look . |
| 2 | I see the mental constructs of workers and managers , which I report , as being temporarily frozen , so to speak , rather than static and therefore with no possibility of changing . |
| 3 | When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife . |
| 4 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 5 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 6 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 7 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 8 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |
| 9 | The Bean family was large and noisy and much under the thumb of father Bean , Nutty 's ‘ Uncle Knacker ’ , a fierce fat man with silver hair and a red face . |
| 10 | Mr Jenkins kept the school Clean and neat and tidy But deep inside the boiler room He kept … |
| 11 | The General and Municipal union 's white collar section ( MATSA ) has started an experimental recruitment campaign aimed not just at " non-standard " workers who are part-time and temporary but also at the self-employed . |
| 12 | The standard is high and varied and well worth a visit if one is in the area . |
| 13 | The second half of the century was a period of intolerance , of deepening division not only between Catholic and Protestant — though a Catholic emperor , Maximilian II , could still favour Lutherans and as late as 1583 a Catholic Archbishop of Cologne could contemplate marriage to a nun — but between Lutheran and Calvinist and even within the various religious camps . |
| 14 | They give little attention not only to how it is understood and experienced but also to the relations between bureaucracies and elected politicians . |
| 15 | Frequently coming into the net , but solid as ever from the baseline when she needed to be , she reached her second Australian Open final in three years . |
| 16 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 17 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 18 | that you arrive at the interview as well informed as possible and therefore in the most confident and self-assured state of mind . |
| 19 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 20 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |