Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 2 | ‘ You listen to me , Corby , ’ he says as if he was a hundred years old and me a little kid . |
| 3 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |
| 4 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 5 | Wulfstan 's Sermon of the Wolf refers to English powerlessness against the enemy as shameful ; Ælfric to the heathen army holding them to scorn and of days when English kings had been strong and theirs the only fleet around . |
| 6 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 7 | Apparently the woman who is now so famous that her every offhand comments is carved in tablets of stone for FRANK SINATRA to jump up and down on , could not qualify for tea , biscuits and fainting spells because she 's seriously underweight . |
| 8 | Mr. Speaker : I am sure that what the Hon. Member has said has been carefully noted by members on the Government Front Bench . |
| 9 | I feel it did , I strongly feel it , feel that , but I 'm also sure that its an awful lot easier than , than most people think , but its not going to work for us is it ? |
| 10 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 11 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 12 | There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame . |
| 13 | It therefore seems probable that what the early personality studies of living creative subjects had revealed was their tendency to the schizoidness of which Bleuler writes , and which would now be referred to as ‘ schizotypy ’ . |
| 14 | But already it is certain that the challenges ahead are at least as daunting as anything the Cold War produced . |
| 15 | And oh Yeah , we went round from one house to the other and you A whole week of it it was more or less . |
| 16 | In market making systems , for example , there are regular controversies about who is a genuine and who a fair weather market maker . |
| 17 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 18 | In urban areas , a plan will seldom be necessary because there the local authorities are obliged to notify the Registry of all changes of streets and house numbers ; in country districts the property should be described by reference to a plan . |