Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident was one of the most memorable from a year that Waggoner spent following the U.S.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 2 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
| 3 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 4 | Public sector borrowing is very highly inflationary in a recession and you should n't raise taxes if your underlying PSBR ( Public Sector Borrowing Rate ) is OK . |
| 5 | Observe , for instance , the ungrammaticality of ( 2 ) , and , while ( 3 ) is acceptable , it is only acceptable with an interpretation that bears no systematic relation to the sentence in ( 1 ) : ( 2 ) *how does muzak drive them ? ( 3 ) how will the mixture turn the buttons ? |
| 6 | Unionists were only interested in a deal that would make Lloyd George 's capture public . |
| 7 | The elvish song is only analogous to a hymn as Gandalf is analogous to an angel ; Elbereth too is unlike ( say ) the Holy Ghost in remaining visible , to elves , and rememberable as a being by those elves like Galadriel who have been across the Sea and met her . |
| 8 | ‘ It was extremely painful for a while but the doctor says there is little risk of permanent damage . ’ |
| 9 | Did I ever do anything so wrong as a child that I should deserve to suffer for evermore ? |
| 10 | Yet it 's arguable that the Germanic qualities that are prevalent in Wand 's conception are entirely appropriate to a composition that is so closely modelled on Bach 's Brandenburg Concertos . |
| 11 | To the Queen , Cranmer was not only detestable as a heretic but odious as the man who had arranged her mother 's divorce ; he had however been legally consecrated as Archbishop by order of the pope , and only the Pope could hand him over for judgement and punishment by the civil power . |
| 12 | There is no experience so uncomfortable for a nation as to run headon unawares into an axiom . |
| 13 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 14 | What could a lorry be carrying that its load was so valuable to a thief as to make Hatton 's a feasible reward ? |
| 15 | John was so sure of an encore that he rehearsed the girls in a burlesque version of a quartet from the Gaiety Theatre in London , and in a later scene they performed a coconut dance — a long-established feature of theatre and street dance of the time . |
| 16 | Western observers argued that Gorbachev 's stronger power base and his age ( 58 compared with Khrushchev 's 70 in 1964 ) made him less vulnerable to a coup than his reformist predecessor . |
| 17 | The reverse tends to be the case with Ventura which is both extremely complex as a program and is further hampered by a user interface that is not exactly a model of the way things happen in the real world . |
| 18 | It is , however , less effective over a period and tends to be more expensive . |
| 19 | ‘ Doing English is terribly useful for a writer as long as you can get rid of the inhibitions from reading other people 's wonderful work . |
| 20 | The best companies are able more readily to make alliances or purchase technology or be welcomed into countries other than their own , or obtain financial consideration from banks or shareholders , or escape some of the more scathing criticisms which can be so damaging to a company if produced in the public arena . |
| 21 | The effect is very different , however , from the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait ( p 27 ) , which also presents a child 's version of reality , but in the artless style of the child itself Peake 's style is highly artificial in a sense that applies to the style of Lyly 's Euphues ( 1.3.1 ) . |
| 22 | The idea of progress was crucially important in an age when the west 's growing technological power was allowing it to conquer and colonize most of the world . |
| 23 | These promotions may sometimes have resulted from family connections securing the nomination from Cnut , or to local influence being so important for a bishop that there was a natural tendency to choose a local man . |
| 24 | White is especially critical of an article and illustration by Boaz and Dr Douglas L. Cramer of New York University in the August 1982 issue of Natural History a monthly magazine published by the American Museum of Natural History . |
| 25 | They stopped at Antwerp where one evening they got so drunk in a bar that when Minton decided to return to the hotel , Norman followed him as he doubted whether he would find his way . |
| 26 | Come on , Terry , even you ca n't be so desperate for a story that you 'd try to make something out of last night 's little mishap ! |
| 27 | Morphological processing is not quite so trivial for a computer as it is for a human . |
| 28 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 29 | So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base . |
| 30 | A South American cricket is not only patterned like a wasp but adds a mime to give the impression that it is equally powerfully armed . |