Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are mostly technical and make few concessions to the casual browser . |
| 2 | erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area . |
| 3 | Fresh fruit and raw carrots are an alternative and represent healthier eating but they are perishable , less profitable and need some preparation before sale . |
| 4 | The owners showed me the hotel rooms , which looked extremely pleasant and had pure cotton sheets . |
| 5 | Does the Minister agree that perhaps a more urgent problem than the control of nuclear weapons in the republics of the former Soviet Union could be the vast amounts of conventional weapons that are in the hands of highly discontented and underpaid armed forces that have serious problems ? |
| 6 | He 's very funny , terribly generous and heightens any occasion . |
| 7 | They make their heads less head-like and wear false eyes on their tails . |
| 8 | These electric motors are highly reliable and offer excellent advantages over rowing especially on biggish waters where low speed trolling is an effective method . |
| 9 | One of the few exceptions to this was Stonehenge , which always seems to have been regarded as extremely old and to have excited theories about how the lintels were raised : one early theory was that the magician Merlin placed the stones . |
| 10 | others are less explicit and require longer periods of induction to absorb their meanings . |
| 11 | Their overseas affiliates tend to be highly autonomous and to remit small proportions of their profits to the parent . |
| 12 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 13 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | The hotel was extremely comfortable and offered all guests free entrance to a health and fitness club , including the outdoor swimming pool , which some of us tried out , while others preferred the bar overlooking the pool . |
| 15 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 16 | By being stubbornly obstructive and making snappy remarks . |
| 17 | Feel less sluggish and taking 15 minutes exercise each day . |
| 18 | As a result of these measures , the river dolphin population now appears to be stabilising and even increasing , but the dolphin is still extremely vulnerable and needs continued surveillance at both national and international levels . |
| 19 | The graphics are extremely good and make this game well worth ordering . |
| 20 | And more generally , the relatively highly-skilled and urbanized workers in the metalworking industry displayed greater sustained militancy than did those in the textile industry who were less educated and retained closer links with the countryside . |
| 21 | There are , of course , the alternatives that people behave better and commit less crime ; or that the police become less effective and catch fewer villains . |
| 22 | Probably Grace Kelly — she was so beautiful and had such presence . |
| 23 | Screen idol : ‘ Grace Kelly was so beautiful and has such presence ’ |
| 24 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |
| 25 | On the wrong side of the knitting , this looks much neater and stops little fingers getting caught ! |
| 26 | Such experience would prove highly disturbing and create considerable uncertainty for business , especially importers and exporters , in that country . |
| 27 | ‘ I really admire you , bringing up four from the time the youngest was only five and working full time . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the use of keywords from Dewey as a means of generating additional keywords for records was extremely fruitful and allowed better retrieval even if , on occasions , there was some loss of precision due to the granularity of the classification . |
| 29 | During the late medieval period , the English Catholic church was extremely wealthy and enjoyed many privileges . |
| 30 | Sun intends that the UltraSparc should be highly superscalar and to handle four instructions in each clock cycle . |