Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cellar are six Skeletons manacled around a half-collapsed wooden table piled high with the desiccated and thoroughly foul remains of a meal set out on silver serving plates ( worth 5 GCs in total ) . |
| 2 | With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world . |
| 3 | It views the subject as a holistic entity , suggests that it encompasses consciousness as well as behaviour , and is interested in the interpersonal as well as the individual aspects of this consciousness . |
| 4 | These chapters will be particularly interesting to the practising as well as to the trainee forensic scientist . |
| 5 | Then on the second day , Nicklaus puts it stone-dead at the 5th and so he 's taken just three shots for the 5th ! |
| 6 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |
| 7 | It was far too early for the immaculate and highly paid receptionist to be in ; in fact , no one below the level of partner was present . |
| 8 | But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates . |
| 9 | Figure 1 a , for 1.75 b 1.8 , is typical of the irregular and relatively static network of ‘ D lines ’ against a background of C which arises for these b values ; one gets less connected fragments of D lines or ‘ D blinkers ’ for lower b values . |
| 10 | Beveridge and his contemporaries were much inspired by Canon Barnett , who by 1900 was firmly convinced of the economic as well as personal causes of distress and that more state help was needed for the destitute . |
| 11 | Here you can find childrens books , an Arthur Askey annual from the 1940s and surely the ultimate dirty book , a 1935 War Office Drainage Manual . |
| 12 | Freud 's graded system of classification of jokes , from the crude and explicit to the refined and more abstract , implies that many of the fabliaux achieve an intriguing conflation of basic smut — in their overt expression of the dreams of masculine sexuality , with women , often other men 's wives , freely available , especially to the lover who spices his indulgence with daring and danger , and their insistence on the use of diction which is the opposite of refined — and the circumstances of the more sophisticated joke : where there is an inhibitor , he becomes the butt of the joke . |
| 13 | It would be less burdensome to the poor and more profitable to the King if Parliament were prorogued and a benevolence demanded . |
| 14 | Many of the chalets are set on a hillside reached by steps — not ideal for the infirm or very young children . |
| 15 | In a good year a gathering of twenty pounds would not be at all unusual of the largest and most succulent imaginable . |
| 16 | But every minute in his consulting room I was conscious of the dozen or more , far sicker than me , waiting outside . |
| 17 | Persia is seen as the spiritual , if not actual , home of rug-making and its name has become synonymous with the finest and most outstanding achievements in oriental textile art . |
| 18 | Genzyme announced last week that Ceredase , its drug for Gaucher disease , is being used in Britain for the first time in 10 patients seriously ill with the rare and potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 19 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 20 | Frequently dependent on assumptions of common cause with film theory and criticism , television genre theory is uncomplicated by the longer and more complex history of aesthetics and poetics . |
| 21 | It was pathetically inadequate for the poor and totally irrelevant for everyone else . |
| 22 | With such a fine account of the most famous of the five and similarly committed ones of the others , this is a superb package . |
| 23 | When selecting other census counts to profile a local market , it is important to choose the most useful of the 10,000 or so available counts . |
| 24 | Leiber ( 1976 ) carried out such a study and found that reaction times were equal in the left and right visual fields when the stimuli were not words , but a RVF superiority obtained when the letter-string made up a word . |
| 25 | ( Downward transposition was not at all uncommon when countertenor solos were issued in print : for instance , ‘ I envy not the pride of May , from Purcell 's 1693 birthday ode for Queen Mary , is in E major in the original and also goes to top b ’ B♭♯ , but it was published , in the treble clef , in D major . ) |
| 26 | He says it can be a bit slippery in the wet but otherwise it 's fine . |
| 27 | To begin with I found the playing a little mannered , although I soon became involved in the thoughtful and musicianly approach of these artists . |
| 28 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 29 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 30 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |