Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold .
2 The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil .
3 Family planning as promoted in El Salvador has been characterized by very aggressive marketing and it is more than apparent that both the medical profession and women are subjected to unethical pressures .
4 The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him .
5 He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul .
6 Fagan was a bleak and determined little man , tidy and forbidding as only an ex-steeplechase jockey can be .
7 Once the only landfall for Britons bound for the Continent and far and away the best route today .
8 Now , the brand is the third largest in the country and far and away the biggest selling stout .
9 But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down .
10 Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else .
11 The chorus sound is sweet and clean and even the analogue distortion and overdrive , while sounding very much on the processed side , are very responsive to programming .
12 It had been so quick and thorough that only a few people now remained around it , staring glassy-eyed , and the Rante itself already seemed oddly quiet and deserted .
13 As long as only a few predators hunt in the same area , each aposematic family is likely to produce several survivors .
14 His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week .
15 She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged .
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