Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adj] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor was hard paving stone , the walls lime-washed , the room devoid of even a stick of furniture . |
| 2 | Each entry will be assessed by the judges on the level of initiative shown , taking account of the resources available to either the individual or to the team . |
| 3 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 4 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 5 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 6 | He was delighted with all we 'd done to make the house habitable in under a week and greatly enjoyed partying with friends . |
| 7 | Not all positions were as healthy as others , for 4,700 feet ( 1,400m ) up Tata-Mailau mountain a Section post was established that needed a fresh 16 men every week , the cold — Tata-Mailau is 9,000 feet ( nearly 3,000 metres ) high — bringing on the malaria latent in almost every man of the Companies . |
| 8 | it 'd be a bit boring with just the agree or disagree . |
| 9 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
| 10 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |
| 11 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 12 | It also meant that in 1213 , and again in 1215–17 , the French king was able to take the war to England , a thing unheard of only a generation earlier . |
| 13 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , a household with an RNR value of 200 per cent has an income equal to twice the amount of benefit that it would be entitled to under the regulations of the time . |