Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 2 | The resources necessary to discharge the functions of a surveying practice may not be scarce , but these functions grow increasingly costly and therefore efficiency in the application of those resources is essential in running a successful practice . |
| 3 | This volume provides an admirably full and even coverage of 13 years of these and many other projects , but it scarcely attempts the more critical profile one might have expected from Rizzoli . |
| 4 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 5 | She was intensely loyal and endlessly kind to those ( women ) she knew well and respected . |
| 6 | What is more , the funny side of John 's situation is made explicit in the tale by lines which indicate the fundamentally urbane and clerkly bias of the humour of the fabliau : The laugh is on the uneducated man who thought his common sense better than the clerks ' sophistry ( 3448 – 91 ) . |
| 7 | Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million . |
| 8 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |