Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 2 | Ernest Bevin 's entry into the wartime coalition made it even less likely than before that the bulk of trade-union officials would tolerate the Communists let alone support them . |
| 3 | The dried egg and fried bread were less attractive than ever and the grey day had hardly got under way before I was approaching the forbidding facade of Regent Lodge . |
| 4 | In such circumstances , some kind of compromise or attempt to reach a consensus may often be the most democratic as well as the most prudent course . |
| 5 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 6 | This message is as relevant now as it was in 1940 and is more urgent than ever as the myth of material progress loses its power . |
| 7 | Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened . |
| 8 | Such a legacy was hardly encouraging as far as the setting up of a free , unfettered press after independence was concerned . |
| 9 | The practice started when postmortems were more common than now and the intention was to protect the ‘ outsider ’ from the smell . |
| 10 | Lloyds Bank fund manager Michael Smith says : ‘ If the stock market picks up , as many are suggesting it will , PEPs will look more attractive than ever because the tax-free capital gain will be more valuable for someone who has consistently invested . ’ |
| 11 | Free from the forests and swamps of the lowlands they would have been the most healthy as well as the most defensible homesteads for prehistoric man . |
| 12 | Caring for elderly people and children in the residential setting can be one of the most rewarding as well as the most stressful of all jobs in our society . |
| 13 | Deixis is the most context-specific linguistic element , and it exists and occurs in the most situation-free as well as the most situation-bound utterances . |
| 14 | With its incredibly small , lightweight radome , the R10X is the most compact as well as the most economical , full-featured radar ever offered . |
| 15 | Copper had made a completely recovery , he was as sound as ever although a little on the thin side in an attempt to save his legs . |
| 16 | The period was marked by mass demonstrations , of which the Aldermaston marches were the most successful as well as the best remembered , and by more direct forms of action such as well-planned and highly publicized sorties against selected US rocket bases situated in Britain . |
| 17 | In this selection of old and modern recipes I give precedence to those dishes made from the gooseberry , because green gooseberry fool is — to me at any rate — the most delicious as well as the most characteristic of all these simple , almost childlike , English dishes . |
| 18 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 19 | There was no denying that the new corset had an impressive effect on her waist , but the dress disconcerted her — the first true evening dress she had ever had — because it left her shoulders quite bare as well as a considerable amount of — of , well , upper bosom , and all her arms . |
| 20 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 21 | Although there are now far too many centre tables and a head waiter who manages to imitate the late owner 's rudeness without any of his Irish charm , the service is as chummily swift as ever and the house wine a modest £7.75 . |
| 22 | He was a very confused as well as a very angry man as he pushed open the doors of Briant 's unit , and hurried down the corridor toward the office . |
| 23 | Holidays with her were thus a very full as well as a very rewarding experience . |