Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a little hesitant at first but soon had told her everything ; how he met the Bookman , his funny habits , his endless knowledge , their pranks , sitting in the sun on reclining chairs and leaping through the shelves . |
| 2 | Wellord ( 1979 ) suggests that work on the shop-floor is likely to peak in the thirties — those in their twenties lack experience and social skills , those in their forties are beginning to notice the effect of sensory changes and are less tolerant of fast or very heavy physical work . |
| 3 | It is abundantly clear that the homeless have nothing to hope for from the socialist Government , which promised them so much in 1945 and so little in 1950 . |
| 4 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 5 | We can not ignore that growth , if only because the machinery and procedures adequate to manage 5,000 are entirely inappropriate for 50,000 and more . |
| 6 | Her Majesty ‘ was extremely surprised at first but then her artistic and historical sense was fired and she agreed ’ . |
| 7 | The lateral and ventral arm plates have distinctive transverse ridges most noticeable in dry or nearly dry specimens . |
| 8 | I 'm I 'm rather relieved at that because otherwise I would |
| 9 | ‘ The car leaves behind it two long trails of squashy corpses , the tyres and wheels become encrusted with them , while the running boards are soon black with those that still live and crawl . ’ |
| 10 | They are just two of 50 or so formulae , charts and graphs available to teachers who wish to assess the difficulty of prose objectively ( see Harrison , 1980 , for a review ) . |
| 11 | The exposure was a little frightening at first and instinctively he kept close to walls . |
| 12 | While both groups of thinkers tend to admit the lack of preventive policies and the need for more resources here , the kinship school is more acutely conscious of this and perhaps more optimistic about what preventive services might achieve in terms of better parenting . |
| 13 | More and more suffering for more and more . |
| 14 | Although schools are becoming more accessible to more and more Semai communities , children often attend only sporadically , simply refusing when it suits them . |
| 15 | In these circumstances , equations ( 7.19 ) and ( 7.20 ) reduce to and Thus balance can be achieved by making the ratio permanently equal to two and then adjusting the ganged resistances for balance . |
| 16 | The prospering of Unionism had less to do with the war than is generally assumed , and it was more healthy in 1914 and less certain of prosperity in 1922 . |
| 17 | What is clear , however , is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise , that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes . |
| 18 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 19 | I was n't totally surprised by this and hopefully he can go on from here . ’ |
| 20 | From her point of view , wealthier and more powerful was probably synonymous with easier and more rewarding , though it is questionable whether those who actually had to rule early modern France would have seen it in quite these terms . |
| 21 | Even at the early teenage , Morrissey 's sense of value was completely individual : naïve , eccentric , ingenious , illogical or exceptional , probably all of these and more . |
| 22 | But the term was also available for broader or more informal tendencies . |
| 23 | This is not seen as a very attractive chore but is probably the most important of all and really depends on the goodwill of a few people under the guidance of Annie Hanlon . |
| 24 | With Stacker 3.0 it 's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package 's customisable compression features . |
| 25 | I give her supper about half past five and then she goes to bed . |
| 26 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 27 | Went for a walk around the school , about half past seven or so . |
| 28 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 29 | Styles became more back-comby bouffantish and rock-hard lacquered as smooth held sway , then the loose , fairly full on top but very long & layered at the back & sides cut of later '70/'71 . |
| 30 | So in order to produce 2400 kcals of chemical energy in the form of organic molecules , you would need anything from about 40 to 100 or more square metres of land in Britain , and somewhat less than this in the USA . |