Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 2 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 3 | Next time , stay calm and pick up the pace when you can . |
| 4 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 5 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 6 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 7 | During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . |
| 8 | Finally , art and design have increasingly been a part of proposals for courses leading to the award of Bachelor of Education degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education , a development which has posed the CNAA with some problems in guiding and assessing both the content and standard of such courses . |
| 9 | For example , we may find that a job applicant for a position in sales was an international athlete in her teens ; on its own this piece of data is interesting but provides almost no insight into future performance in sales , especially if there is no demand for athletics in the job . |
| 10 | He did n't look like he could do anything more strenuous than spit out a grape-pip . |
| 11 | I went out into the fresh damp morning , walking quickly to keep warm and get round the island before any rain started . |
| 12 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |
| 13 | Kidnapping the whole cage was impossible and knocking out the Headmaster and all the teachers would be difficult . |
| 14 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
| 15 | And it must be appropriate and sum up the style of the development and its location . ’ |
| 16 | Do n't buy silver-top and skim off the cream yourself , because this does n't provide an equivalent calorie saving . |
| 17 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 18 | The diplomat knew that was untrue but asked why the man was imprisoned . |
| 19 | This format is appropriate when sending out a Investment Overview in response to an enquiry from another member of the ABN . |
| 20 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 21 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 22 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 24 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 25 | ‘ Be a dear and put out the cat ’ , ‘ This train timetable may help you ’ and so on . |
| 26 | From the start , pick up a crate and kill the policeman , continue right , dodging the dog on the way , climb the ladder to where the mugger prowls , dodge him and grab the ‘ ? ’ ( 50 points ) and the records , climb upwards , collecting records on the way , kill the workman with the crate and thus gain access to the roof of the building , avoid climbing the crane ( there 's nothing of interest there ) , climb up the ladder and kill the policeman , run right and jump off the edge to the end of the building . |
| 27 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 28 | She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot . |
| 29 | However , if it was too weak and watered down a version of Presbyterianism for the Scots , it none the less proved far too rigid and alien for the majority of the English laity . |
| 30 | Clubs attempting to sack the professional and take over the shop to earn revenue can expect no support from those in the business . |