Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additions equally probable anywhere This is both the most usual case and the assumption the designer should work on if no information is available . |
| 2 | It knows that , whatever the Government say , eventually European law or the law of a more enlightened British Government will say , ’ You just can not do it . ’ |
| 3 | The Course is the most distinctive and , on this scale , the most innovative contribution that the Polytechnic has made to the public sector in higher education . |
| 4 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 5 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 6 | So it would have been pretty well dead low water when the woman saw him , " Burgess replied indirectly . |
| 7 | The most unhelpful position that a board of directors can take when a business is performing badly is to respond by saying that such a performance is unacceptable . |
| 8 | Other changes include a revision to the requirement fro longitudinal camber and the introduction of a new requirement for twist , related to camber . |
| 9 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 10 | Slabs , grooves , the odd bulge , then chimneys ; I mentally crossed off each successfully negotiated landmark as the cloud built up . |
| 11 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 12 | Theda had gazed with awe upon the dish of ham and eggs , the lavishly buttered bread and the pot of tea , bereft of words . |
| 13 | As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing . |
| 14 | The requirement that the victim might suffer harassment , alarm or distress is a much lower threshold than the violence or possibility of violence that is the touchstone of the other offences under Part I of the Act . |
| 15 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 16 | As house prices begin to rise , you could see your loan costing less each month than the gain in your first house 's value over the same period . |
| 17 | I mean the phrase better low pay than no pay , has been used to sort of describe the economic situation and , and , and the , and almost the economic development strategy . |
| 18 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 19 | Certainly , experiments using more orthodox conditioning stimuli ( tones , lights and so on ) have produced only scanty evidence that the presence of S2 during can influence latent inhibition . |
| 20 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 21 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 22 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 23 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 24 | An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change . |
| 25 | It was considered the less discreditable way than a commission of bankruptcy , said Thomas Gisborne . |
| 26 | For example it is possible to have a highly absorbent fabric but the fabric would have the strength of blotting paper . |
| 27 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 28 | For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids . |
| 29 | ‘ To my mind , ’ she wrote , ‘ he has all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture : youth , good looks , a photogenic face , obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the maximum effect with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 30 | Employment Levels Above and Below Pensionable Age and the Productivity of Labour |