Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people may think I am rather strange in comparing two horror books . |
| 2 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 3 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 4 | but , but I think we should be just a little careful in accepting this cavalry charge as it has been described too easily . |
| 5 | Canadians long used to seeing environmental campaigners arguing with corporate polluters were stunned to turn on their TV sets and see Isaacs rubbing shoulders with Loblaws ' gnome-like marketing genius , David Nichols . |
| 6 | Part of the problem is that Americans are so used to seeing slick TV presenters on the small screen that they take exception to watching badly-dressed businessmen who lack the skills of professional performers . |
| 7 | Maybe they 've got me going and not me them since I 'm so used to seeing dribbly noddings on trains . |
| 8 | You ca n't go wrong , because I 'm so used to doing these operations that I can keep an eye on the cat 's breathing at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | It was weak in its doctrine of the holy spirit and perhaps heretical in arguing that sanctification was by means of sacraments . |
| 10 | Increased agricultural production was only possible by using intensive farming methods , rather than the traditional method of leaving fields fallow one year in three . |
| 11 | First , the manager himself may feel somewhat shy about creating formal coaching sessions . |
| 12 | The back propagation algorithm can also be described as a hill climber , but it is not so prone to climbing false foothills . |
| 13 | But Veronica had stopped short , perhaps embarrassed by making these revelations to a stranger , and Loretta had a distinct feeling that she was expected to go now . |
| 14 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 15 | The fact that these values were linked with a conspicuous material investment in the library premises clearly corresponded to one criterion which the Coordinating Team took into account ; namely , that a school is not only interested in developing heuristic pedagogies but also willing to put some money and energy into the library as the appropriate central facility . |
| 16 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 17 | She was extremely generous to aspiring young art historians . |
| 18 | Oh it would it would make life so much easier for getting that stuff out later wo n't it palletize it . |
| 19 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 20 | Sedgemore has improved so much since entering top grade rugby that club coach Alex Evans is tipping him for international honours . |
| 21 | Well , well see how it goes , but erm I do n't , the thing is you see they can teach you so much about laying different bonds and making patterns and doing portholes and things like that , that 'll be handy to know , but obviously you 're not gon na learn that until much later on |
| 22 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 23 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 24 | In this sense they have become highly skilful at enacting such rules . |
| 25 | During most of that period Tolkien was furthermore relieved of distracting academic duties , while he was not putting his energies into other creative work : almost all the sixteen poems in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil had seen print before , his contribution to The Road Goes Ever On consisted mostly of explanation and footnote , and Smith of Wootton Major is of no higher a degree of importance than ‘ Leaf by Niggle ’ . |
| 26 | One has to be extremely cautious about interpreting past usage of terms like " women " , " girls " , " ladies " and " females " , but it certainly seems to be the case that " females " and " girls " — precisely the terms with either derogatory or patronizing over-tones — are used more frequently than " women " , while " ladies " is generally used if the speaker wishes either to be polite or ironic . |
| 27 | Soccer : Barcelona so nervous in reaching third final |
| 28 | Our usual transcription is given in brackets : This can be made to look less unusual by choosing different symbols for the basic vowels . |
| 29 | models are : ( a ) they take time to be developed , and are thus less useful for producing quick answers , ( b ) they can represent an over-simplified picture of a particular set of conditions , and therefore may suggest only partial solutions , and ( c ) they may be resisted by line managers on the grounds that such models are too theoretical to be put into practice . |
| 30 | In experiments larger males are much better at dislodging smaller males from females than vice versa . |