Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , though before the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of agriculture in this zone was basically a medieval one , it is also true to say that that in most of the rest of England was also medieval or even earlier in appearance . |
| 2 | The radial shields are large and contiguous or nearly so in spinea while they are quite small , usually separated and confined to the edge of the disk in hamula. 3 . |
| 3 | The chief issues that are singled out in this debate are : that the growing proportion of retired people will impose a burden of increasing cost upon a shrinking population of working age in terms of pensions and services ; and the fact that a growing proportion of these will be very old and therefore more in need of medical and other care will make this burden more onerous still . |
| 4 | First , the political demands on public enterprises lead to objectives that are confusing , changeable and often mutually at odds . |
| 5 | If we now turn our attention to the second type of conflict enumerated by Freud , that between the ego and the superego , we have already noticed that the externalization of the superego , particularly of its archaic and providential aspects , is easily possible and seemingly well under way in many societies . |
| 6 | Warm up your body before you start anything strenuous and avoid pushing yourself too hard or too fast during exercise . |
| 7 | Again the ‘ norm ’ itself is somewhat arbitrary in black and white and still more in colour , where , for example , many actors gain a reddish tone in their hair because the colour is balanced to give ‘ acceptable ’ pinkish/brown skin tones . |
| 8 | Second mortgage Usually not so much a loan in itself as using the value of a home ( over and above the value of any company loan ) , usually large and now mainly for home improvements , for up to , say , seven years ; with fixed monthly repayments . |
| 9 | Such robustness is salutary and not much in evidence in the sickening programmes monopolising the air at the moment : Election Call , Your Election Voice , Election Platform , Campaign Report and the rest . |
| 10 | So this is the natural timescale on which to find biologically modulated climatic changes — and it is also the timescale typical of changes from Ice Age to interglacial and back again to Ice Age . |
| 11 | He supported Parliament 's measures against blasphemy and the Adultery Act of 1650 , though he regarded them as inadequate and insufficiently close to scripture . |
| 12 | According to Thomas Edwards [ q.v. ] , a friend despite their differences , he was consumptive and often close to death , and rarely able to preach . |
| 13 | Some compounds are photo-labile ; therefore , samples that have been exposed to light should be examined in full and not only in terms of their colour . |
| 14 | With the Westminster Government 's small majority , its situation is precarious and especially so in Scotland , where it is supposed to be doing all it can to mend its battered fences . |
| 15 | Panicked , angry and perilously close to tears , Isabel sprang for the door . |
| 16 | Many issues came up curing this work — both day care in general and also specifically around day care for dementia sufferers . |
| 17 | Women were important to the economy in general and especially so in manufacturing . |
| 18 | The disease is closed-minded and not open to persuasion . |
| 19 | The crowd 's response to his resilient 6–4 , 7–5 , 6–4 defeat of a totally overawed Sampras , in his David Cup debut , plus their even greater support as he and Forget beat Ken Flach and the hapless Robert Seguso 6–1 , 6–4 , 4–6 , 6–2 , with flurries of brilliant winners in the doubles , must have gone a long way to at least dimming the memory of the cruel booing he received in 1988 when he struggled against Mats Wilander at Roland Garros in the final of the French Open and then again at Bercy the following November . |
| 20 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 21 | No left at home left at home with the washing nice and properly like in fact going to do yours . |
| 22 | When the weather has entered a relatively rain free period , but when cloud cover is moderately dense and uniform , but not too low — when the prevailing light is evenly spread over the landscape , with no parts over bright or too deep in shadow — when the wind is still or gently fitful , a magic prevails everywhere upon the Wolds , and it comes from within the chalk . |
| 23 | Chelmsford Magistrates ' Court was told how the men had fitted special switches which de-activated the vehicles ' tacographs — the machine which records how long the driver spends actually driving and how long at rest . |
| 24 | Chelmsford Magistrates ' Court was told how the men had fitted special switches which de-activated the vehicles ' tachographs — the machine which records how long the driver spends actually driving and how long at rest . |
| 25 | Within this continuum , however , other proverbs are planted , sounding much the same as the others but more original and so closer to Tolkien 's own intention . |
| 26 | This point is highly significant and not just in relation to the text under discussion . |
| 27 | That in the main was true but not always of course . |