Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So continuing education became voluntary and therefore the dividing line between what is paternalistic or not is constantly shifting .
2 Shy and lacking confidence she might be , but she was not a woman to challenge outright and gradually the staff accepted her .
3 The Tsar 's authority remained unlimited but almost every area of public life was affected , and in preparing the reforms the government slackened censorship and gave unprecedented opportunity for different sections of society to air their grievances .
4 At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle .
5 General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore !
6 The question of how far the report would be a public document remained unanswered and therefore the extent to which it was an accountability exercise was not made clear to staff .
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