Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , however , the impassioned and intelligent dinner conversations held over hearty cassoulets , with rapidly emptying bottles of Beauj' or Burgundy , have become the subject of satire ( primarily and most successfully by The Guardian 's cartoonist Posy Simmonds ) . |
| 2 | They now seemed too cautious , too reluctant to admit to the most defective aspects of the post-medieval Catholic tradition , too little aware of the real situation in the Church of the southern hemisphere ( whose voice was heard remarkably little in the Council 's debates ) . |
| 3 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 4 | Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept . |
| 5 | Drawn slowly down into the cloud 's white , |
| 6 | From Drewsteignton a steep lane drops to Fingle Bridge and from here the route heads upstream along the gorge , picking its way through woodland which grows thickly right to the water 's edge . |
| 7 | Only the sun goes silently and endlessly on with the lark 's song . |
| 8 | Food passes only slowly through the ruminant 's guts because ruminating , digesting the hard parts , takes time . |
| 9 | Interpretation is the heading which is the most wide-ranging of the three elements , including questions of form or style , but perhaps additionally considering the work 's historical background , and technical , thematic or other questions , including the artist 's biography . |
| 10 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 11 | The Cam always looks so peaceful , especially so on a winter 's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight . |
| 12 | She must admit him tonight ; he had waited long enough since the baby 's birth . |
| 13 | So much for the son 's manic triumph over the phallic mother symbolized by the arrogant domination and tree-felling exploits of Gilgamesh or the Amazon-slaying of the Greek heroes ; but what of the homosexual element in the situation to which I alluded earlier ? |
| 14 | So much for the Opposition 's promise that no one earning under £20,000 a year would be hit . |
| 15 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 16 | Masnun was out of sight from a poor draw in his last race at Kempton , but ran much better in the Stewards ' Cup here and he 's well in today on his best form . |
| 17 | The road worsened as I edged gingerly down along the country 's sunken spine , vanishing at times in coils of thick black mud . |
| 18 | He , Rufus , could have got just about enough together for the petrol en route and maybe his own food . |
| 19 | The peso , strong for so long under the IMF 's high real interest rates , has begun to slip , from 25 to the dollar throughout 1992 to 27 now . |
| 20 | The implementation of policy leads us into many aspects of nature conservation not necessarily just on the Council 's own land but as you work for Fife Regional Council you will understand the ramifications of local authority influence . |
| 21 | For instance , accountants and solicitors would normally both enquire into the terms of any leases or major contracts held by the target , and it is obviously not in the investor 's interest to retain both these advisers to carry out the same examination . |
| 22 | However th th the fit of that training work for ministers and others within the church has sat less and less easily with the Board 's commission to advise the church , and that 's our social interests commission , to advise the church erm on matters of social , ethical or moral importance within its remit . |
| 23 | Lederer ( 1978 ) describes a similar study for spoken language interpreters , where a 3 — 6 seconds ' lag occurs as a base level but with a great deal of interpreting occurring much further behind the speaker 's words . |
| 24 | On the contrary , ‘ few things are regarded so cheaply as an animal 's life … |
| 25 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 26 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 27 | Besides the spireless tower , Wynford pioneered the co-ordinated plan of lodgings , in the upper ward of Windsor Castle , at New College , and at Winchester , and perhaps also at the Vicars ' Close in Wells . |
| 28 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 29 | The real Cardiff Bay barrage story is rather different from the one on the poster ( enough so far for a residents ' association , the Cardiff Flood Action Committee , to have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority , and for the RSPB to be considering following suit ) . |
| 30 | Not so far from the Bishop 's Castle Railway another standard gauge branch line ran between Abermule and Kerry . |