Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 2 | The division between the sleeping and run sections is fitted at floor level with a hole just large enough to allow the ferrets easy passage but small enough to prevent them dragging food carcasses from the run section into the sleeping quarters . |
| 3 | In this case , the supply of arbitrage services is a step function , with a large increase in arbitrage supply occurring when the mispricing is just large enough to cover the transactions costs of a new group of arbitrageurs . |
| 4 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 5 | Buxtehude has set out to show that if cyclists can be persuaded to be disciplined , if pedestrians can be more tolerant and if the police will be more supportive then mixing the modes is possible . |
| 6 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 7 | Was he ever sober enough to write the articles he had mentioned the day before ? |
| 8 | Contacting more than , say , three potential purchasers will make maintaining confidentiality more difficult yet increases the chances of finding the ‘ right ’ purchaser . |
| 9 | It is much more common now to use the facilities provided by a package such as micro-OCP to generate a particular concordance entry on the screen of a PC directly from the text-base whenever it is needed . |
| 10 | Some of us are even old enough to remember the days when Maths was fun , not the ponderous THEOREM . |
| 11 | The underlying ethos of the allocation of such status is that those who are most pure — the Brahmin or priest caste are superior to all others , whilst those who are least pure sometimes called the untouchables — are inferior to all other castes . |
| 12 | The irises of his eyes were almost large enough to exclude the whites and they were coloured light green like grapes and flecked with gold . |
| 13 | The ‘ real ’ Christian was then able scrupulously to follow the scriptures as a divine standard and guide through the contending opinions of men . |
| 14 | Black cotton dresses , ankle-height zippered carpet slippers , stockings like brown bandages , not quite thick enough to conceal the knots of varicose veins . |
| 15 | He drew his sword and held it in front of him , the pulse pounding in his temples , but he was not yet afraid enough to wake the others . |
| 16 | Next to them stood the second rank of drinkers , ‘ troops ’ of the gangs , not yet vicious enough to challenge the leaders or even each other , unless they were mob-handed . |
| 17 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 18 | It was away from the heat of Paris , yet close enough to enable the ministers to travel there without difficulty for the twice weekly Council meetings . |
| 19 | The abortive kidnapping had left him drained — too exhausted even to contemplate the consequences of his failure . |
| 20 | Ten to twelve hours a day is a good starting point , adjusting if too much light encourages algae or too little adversely affects the plants . |
| 21 | Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with . |
| 22 | It is unfortunately very easy sometimes to let the eyes wander — and the mind as well — if an elderly person is running the gamut of a whole list of troubles , some of which may seem more like minor irritations . |
| 23 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 24 | If they are too far away to charge the Snotlings move towards the nearest enemy as fast as they are able . |