Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is appalling to hear a doctor describe , with the detailed anatomical knowledge that only a doctor can have , exactly what happened to his poor body when he was tortured ceaselessly , unendingly , with just short gaps to let him regain consciousness , for weeks on end . |
| 2 | Night at any rate you had fine , as we had , with a high clear moon & just a few stars lost here & there among folds of cloud . |
| 3 | Course adjustments may be put into effect immediately in the case of full-time courses , while , in order to protect the interests of part-time students locked into the Institution 's examination programme , adequate forward notice and even a transitional period with parallel diets , have had to be offered . |
| 4 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 5 | There are families in whom the two conditions coexist raising the possibility that they share a similar genetic predisposition and possibly a common transmissable agent such as a mycobacterium . |
| 6 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
| 7 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |
| 8 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 9 | Er and this of course er became er er a major domestic political crisis as well a difficult military situation , a difficult one to win . |
| 10 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 11 | In a company involved in a fast moving technology and consequently a continuous output of new products , this commitment can amount to 30 per cent of total R&D resources . |
| 12 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 13 | Police on parade , in the absence of marches by a peacetime army , was both a major civic celebration and also a symbol of untrammelled power . |
| 14 | The government of George I and the Whigs never lost its credibility , but retained the support of a substantial proportion of the traditional ruling class and probably a higher proportion of the mass of the population than is usually realised . |
| 15 | His upbeat — you know how with many conductors this is a great upwards gesture and then a dreadful flop back down — with him there was none of this . |
| 16 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 17 | The Vesica piscis became an important emotional symbol and also a practical geometrician 's tool throughout Gothic architecture , sculpture and painting . |
| 18 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 19 | This hairstreak butterfly has achieved the effect by evolving not only a coloured false head but also a radiating black and white pattern on its wings that directs the observer 's eye away from the real head . |
| 20 | Next to it was a suit in plain grey worsted and then a mustardy one , a brown pin-stripe , and the dog's-tooth . |
| 21 | The general sequence of operation tends to be the same for all types with a pre-rinse , to purge the food residues , followed by a hot caustic wash and then a highly diluted cold acid rinse . |
| 22 | DNA sequencing , another fundamental molecular genetic technique and increasingly a vital component for identifying molecular pathology in patients , has also become reliant on the reaction . |
| 23 | There was a certain warmth and cosiness in this great dilapidated old house that only a gentle soul could create . |
| 24 | Several authorities have stated that malignant hypertension ( implying the presence of arterial fibrinoid necrosis and usually a diastolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg with retinal changes such as haemorrhages , exudates and papilloedema ) is rare in diabetics and that generally the degree of hypertension tends not to be severe ( Drury , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | For the kind of squeaky clean sound that only a solid state amp can produce , the S80 's Normal channel takes some beating . |
| 26 | There is , of course , a heater and a heated rear screen and even a wash/wipe mechanism fitted to the hard top but once that has been removed , a five minute , two man job , the driver is at the mercy of the elements unless he is willing to pay extra for the folding soft top . |
| 27 | More often , two or more rhythms are used to give not only a more varied rhythmic interest but also a bigger canvas by using first one rhythm , then another , or by using them in various combinations and expansions . |
| 28 | Change of control clauses ( commonly found in software licences ) entitle one party to a contract to terminate the contract if there is a change in ownership of the other contracting party or sometimes a change in ownership of the holding company of that contracting party . |
| 29 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 30 | But over the eight drafts , what emerged was a particular vision of the whole penal system as almost a plot by the higher powers to perpetuate the whole system of crime , keep it rolling , keep criminals on the streets … ‘ |