Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Each celluloid window was two inches smaller all the way round than the gap it was supposed to fill and was held in place by fishing line .
2 By November 1944 , only the Bristol 167 and the Type 2 aircraft , the twin-engine Airspeed 67 , had gone much past the preliminary design stage , and the Brabazon Committee warned that the five new types would face obsolescence if their development were not speeded up .
3 ‘ not just a metre longer than an Arun or a good seven knots faster , she is a more sophisticated rescue machine in every respect and in my opinion will provide excellent value for money . ’
4 He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be .
5 It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant .
6 It 's always a bit sad when a door closes — it seems so final .
7 That is still a lot less than the $2 billion of robot sales once forecast for 1990 .
8 The Home Office and its Ministers accepted that recommendation in respect of both the mark 1 and the mark 2 computers .
9 Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room .
10 Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp .
11 When Yu Teng-fa , 87 , the patriarch of the Taiwanese opposition , was found dead in mysterious circumstances in October 1989 , different theories implicated both the KMT old-guard and the anti-KMT separatists in his presumed murder .
12 This requires individual motivation and managerial support , but benefits both the individuals concerned and the service itself .
13 It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both .
14 As a coach to both a colts XV and a senior team I have seen the game my charges play become more free flowing by doing away with the juggernaut mentality .
15 At Ramsay 's shouted message , the Scots chivalry formed up from column into as wide a line abreast as the terrain would allow , and wasting no time , advanced at the trot .
16 The argument that Sizewell will make electricity cheaper than it would otherwise be , is probably a lot weaker than the board claims .
17 It is also no doubt less than a coincidence that the central bank made its move in the week before the French elections .
18 Longer , higher and wider than the old R25 , the more rounded Safrane is 148mm ( 5.8ins ) shorter than the Rover 800 fastback but , at 1818mm between doors , is nearly an inch wider than the Citroen XM .
19 In this way three different groups were used , each linking with the other — the teacher who is both an opinion former and a consumer , the child who learns about the manufacturer and may become a potential future customer and who acts as a messenger to the mother who is the manufacturer 's prime commercial and marketing target .
20 And then the drive curved and the house came into view , a huge solid new house , built of the same neat grey blocks as the gatepost , with enormous sash windows staring blankly out and a shallow slate roof with heavily moulded eaves .
21 It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 .
22 Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan .
23 As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned .
24 The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door .
25 Even seated he was still almost a head taller than the Han .
26 HIV-1 RNA ( 1–415 ) template ( ∼0.2 µg ) and an oligonucleotide ( 1–2 ng ) complementary to either the region 76–90 or the 179–196 PBS of the template RNA were used to prepare cDNA in the absence or presence of NCp7 in a final volume of 15 µl basically as described previously ( 13 ) .
27 In monopoly cases , either the Director General or the Secretary of State can make the reference .
28 At a level where either the commander concerned or the typist could not render ‘ Marxist ’ correctly in Russian , it seems doubtful whether rejoicing for the Paris Commune would be very well informed or sincere .
29 So again the H two and the O H
30 Picks : either a Tortex 74 or a Clayton 74–77 .
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