Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is important , however , that we keep accurate records , though it is not so important we make rigid rules that can preclude the recording of a well-authenticated fish simply because a rule was not strictly adhered to .
2 Handsome new Dr Robert Khalefa is so arrogant he makes fatal errors .
3 The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours .
4 Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish .
5 Ben 's injuries were so bad he needed regular check-ups for six months .
6 Assuming , as we do here , that Hoccleve 's description of psychological breakdown is genuinely autobiographical we find recognisable signs of the nature of the illness in the author 's writings .
7 In the years following 1868 she had several landscapes and religious pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy .
8 Consequently we will argue that for the very least we need current levels of basic state pension and SERPS , and see that they are available to both men and women from the age of sixty .
9 So it 's a very inconve if someone said to you come up er okay this you put initial values in
10 Yeah but , I think if you straighten lines and mess around with them too much it leaves little bits in underneath the other one .
11 ‘ They 're that tight they needs strong fingers . ’
12 ‘ In any case , I 'm not that sure they have sixty pounds between them .
13 But sometimes when you 're not very well and you get very very hot you get funny dreams , I think you had a very funny dream in the middle of last night did n't you ?
14 As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent .
15 ‘ When I was very young I had frequent dreams of Israel and the River Jordan , although I had never been there , and the first word I spoke was ‘ Abba ’ — the Jewish word for father .
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