Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | His round , brown eyes regarded me obliquely , a little suspiciously above the high cheekbones . |
2 | There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
3 | At first the gospel of family limitation appears to have been spread most effectively among the middle classes before it percolated through to the working classes . |
4 | Bhabha writes of how Fanon ‘ speaks most effectively from the uncertain interstices of historical change : from the area of ambivalence between race and sexuality , out of an unresolved contradiction between culture and class ; from deep within the struggle of psychic representation and social reality ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , White Masks , p. ix ) . |
5 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
6 | Sources close to Bel say the tiny tot looks just like mom … right down to the dark sunglasses . |
7 | His underwear will be perfectly all right in with the other clothes . |
8 | From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre . |
9 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
10 | ‘ This 'll be all right for the Ancient Britons as well , ’ he said brandishing ‘ The Stein Song ’ , 'I 'll give it to Mike when we go over . ’ |
11 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
12 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
13 | At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy . |
14 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
15 | So much for the various qualities of books . |
16 | So much for the simple carbohydrates . |
17 | So much for the new cars . |
18 | So much for the elementary properties of pencils . |
19 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
20 | So much for the self-inflicted handicaps . |
21 | So much for the diplomatic niceties . |
22 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
23 | So much for the basic laws . |
24 | So much for the basic qualifications of recruits into AIB . |
25 | Voters could make their preferences known at home by punching a computer button and — since computers count no less swiftly in the Western Isles than Westminster North — all results could be published simultaneously , guaranteeing an early night for Messrs Paxman , Dimbleby , and Sissons . |
26 | To me , northwest Africa is part of Europe and either the division is farther south or , if they must be sailing on different plates , then those plates were very close together long before the Alpine convulsions . |
27 | A transfer on such a scale , from those who work to those who do not , may be manageable today ; it will be less so in the early years of the next century , when the number of workers per pensioner will start to fall sharply . |
28 | When they were hand copied and illuminated they were very rare and valuable , and not much less so in the early days of printing . |
29 | It is even less so in the social sciences where there is a dearth of sufficiently well-worked-out theories to test in this way . |
30 | Though some of the writing and most if not all the compilation were done not so long after the notorious events surrounding the capture of Jerusalem in 587 or 586 , only in the little story of the bowl of lentil soup is Esau portrayed in a poor light . |