Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Ophiopristis differs from Ophioprium as follows the oral tentacle scales are not markedly different from the oral papillae — those of Ophioprium are much more elongate and slightly separated ; the tentacle pores are smaller and armed with 1–2 large tentacle scales whereas the pores in Ophioprium are open and armed with small thin tentacle scales .
2 Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone .
3 I think over the last few months , there 's been so much killing that maybe for me , that was the the watershed .
4 They 're always great fun and well worth the effort .
5 These popular outings are always great crack and very good value at £15 , which includes morning coffee and an evening meal .
6 Doctors are under great pressure and no longer come around in pony and trap and stay for a round of golf and two glasses of sherry .
7 In striking contrast to the Scottish hills which are often exposed rock and almost infertile at higher altitudes , the Black Forest plateau is prime cattle country with lush pasturage .
8 This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round .
9 Why has everything got to be so squeaky dean as soon as the meal is finished ? ’
10 So , if you drink four units ( is two pints of beer or two double gins ) over a period of four hours , there is likely to be only one unit or less remaining in the body when you finish .
11 He gave four reasons for deciding in favour of a binary system : the demand for vocational , professional and industrial based courses required a separate sector with a separate tradition and outlook ; a ladder system with the universities at the head would inevitably depress and degrade morale and standards in the non-university sector ; there was a need for a substantial part of the higher education system to be under social control and directly responsible to social needs ; and , lastly , no other country in the western world downgraded its non-university professional and technical sector .
12 The substance of the hydra must be partly normal matter and partly immaterium — partly the stuff of the warp , which was raw chaotic fluid energy .
13 With , of course , all the best stories and features on the programmes and the people who make them … it 'll be even better value than ever .
14 Citalia is determined that Summer 1992 is going to be even better value than ever before .
15 I am nearly 5ft 11ins tall and should be around 11 stone but barely weigh 9st 7lbs ’ , he complains .
16 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls .
17 He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café .
18 Lots of people from the restaurants park down here in the evening , but I only just realized , talking to my wife , that it had actually been there all day as well .
19 The answers were more selective recruitment and yet more discipline .
20 They were both working class and somehow with him Ken could drop his own pretensions of what Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion called ‘ middle-class morality ’ .
21 ‘ Elizabeth and Beuno were here last night as well , ’ she said .
22 The two ranges the firstly still water and secondly bottled s sorry the two ranges are firstly still water and secondly sparkling water .
23 However , it is artistically total tosh and merely a vehicle for an imagination nowhere close to reaching puberty .
24 ‘ I wish Guido all the best in the trials , of course , ’ she added , ‘ but there 's only one thing that really matters to me now — and that 's going home as soon as I can . ’
25 I hasten to add before I am taken to court by mountain men with beards that this is highly irresponsible behaviour and extremely dangerous .
26 I 've also been mountain biking around Dorchester which is somewhat gentler going though equally spectacular .
27 But salaries are largely irrelevant in Angola , because there is so much money and so few things to buy .
28 Her the narrow lanes are most pleasant for cycling , horseriding or even driving out in a pony trap for there is so little traffic and so much nature to be observed .
29 Now Chris made a very valid point , he said , putting terminal five on it 's own is just crass stupidity and fortunately that is what it can happen .
30 But where they and the study immediately differed was where , as , group finance director at John Menzies , said , it ‘ set off on a diverging track ’ from what they perceive is already best practice albeit only among the major companies .
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