Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool , Nigel Lawson 's carefully worded oratory did little to satisfy those wanting Britain to become full members of the European Monetary System sooner rather than later , nor did it provide comfort for others claiming that interest rates had reached their zenith . |
| 2 | The wide acceptance of secularisation is not a strong enough reason for us to cease applying Biblical social teaching as directly as possible to the world in which we live . |
| 3 | The second was white , 6ft , well built , and with dark brown hair slightly longer than the first . |
| 4 | The occasional or once-in-a-while reward ( intermittent reinforcement ) will consolidate an established bad habit more effectively than a reward given every time . |
| 5 | The flinty soils overlying chalk are ideal grazing land so long as water is available . |
| 6 | Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , it is n't the Done Thing to poach people — let alone a whole unit — from an Ally , ’ George went on , ‘ but our East German operations had completely fallen apart , the place had become a total black hole as far as The Firm knew , and they were desperate . |
| 8 | You are a right crafty bastard as far as women are concerned . ’ |
| 9 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 10 | A long right arm as hard as steel took him about the body , prisoning his left arm above the elbow , and the grazed breast leaned violently over him and broke his balance . |
| 11 | But Sartre 's courageous intervention against French and other colonialisms could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework . |
| 12 | If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being . |
| 13 | And , as anywhere else , transitory lighting can turn a nondescript topography into a picture , as up on the Barkly Tableland where the narrow tarmac ribbon is frayed at the edges into blond tussocky grass as far as the eye can see . |
| 14 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 15 | Even at the end of the sixteenth century , which is a great golden era as far as we were concerned , you know , the madrigal came from Italy and it was the Italian import that influenced English composers , rather than the other way round . |
| 16 | There is a stroll up the long main street as far as the last houses of the village . |
| 17 | What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey . |
| 18 | What is needed now is a new spirit of political leadership in Ireland , able to respond to the changing social mood as effectively as Charles Haughey 's government has responded since 1987 to the changing economy . |
| 19 | Must we , in other words , accept an ultimate sexual apartheid as far as ethical values are concerned ? |
| 20 | The type-B chlamydiae are animal pathogens , and the only important member as far as human infection is concerned is that which affects birds and causes pigeon-fancier 's lung or psittacosis . |
| 21 | The oral shield is a rounded rectangular shape slightly longer than broad . |
| 22 | Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609 . |
| 23 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 24 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 25 | Married to Dick , she would be able to give her grandfather a home , would be free to renew that wonderful sexual experience as often as she wished , and , of course , to have children . |
| 26 | No one has ever conducted the big man-hunt scene as well as he . |
| 27 | It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh , earl of Chester . |
| 28 | Fucking Brinley 's a big fucking tart as far as I 'm concerned there are young man are you coming to discover us with young Sam ? |
| 29 | They also agreed to resume constitutional negotiations , suspended since June [ see p. 38948 ] , and committed themselves to the election of a constituent assembly and the inauguration of a non-racial transitional government as soon as possible . |
| 30 | The register , like other records that a company is required to maintain , may be kept either in bound books or by recording the matter in any other way and , in particular , may be on a computer or other electronic device so long as the material can be reproduced in legible form and is so reproduced for purposes of inspection or supply of a copy . |