Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent . |
| 2 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 3 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 4 | At that time , Spain was predominantly agricultural and the interruption of normal activity during the war had resulted in serious shortages of foodstuffs . |
| 5 | It may appear rather odd that a book on an emerging language devotes a chapter to the process of translating meaning from that language to another and vice versa ( especially when this second language will be , virtually always , English ) , but the development of BSL , and its community of users is so bound up in its treatment by hearing people that it is essential to have some discussion on the matter . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many people who choose to work more than 48 hours per week , and who thereby earn overtime and give greater security to their families , would be most upset if an edict from Brussels took the right to work such overtime away from them , especially as hon. Members would be excluded from the rules , as would the bureaucrats in Europe and all managers and executives ? |
| 7 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 8 | The danger is most marked where the measurement of improvement is subjective . |
| 9 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 10 | Underachievement , however , means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils . |
| 11 | In the UK this is not only absurd but a waste of time . |
| 12 | In this case the potential economies will be somewhat low and the impact of their realisation minimal . |
| 13 | Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause . |
| 14 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 15 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 16 | We got a tremendous shock of course and I was extremely upset because the love of my life had nearly been made part of the road surface . |
| 17 | and it was and you could n't get near it because the heat of the fire was so strong and the smell of the of the smoke was overpow you literally could n't get near it and everyone had to come away . |
| 18 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 19 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |
| 20 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 21 | Those belonging to Pan American were called Clippers ; they flew the Pacific and the Atlantic and , when storms were violent , they flew so low that the spray from the waves broke over the aircraft . |
| 22 | Recall that it exists where the interest rate is so low that the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic . |
| 23 | The actual sound ambience of this recording is less dry than the sort of sound that Philips is prepared to settle for in the same hall , and it is refreshing to hear Nicholas McGegan 's fine cast of soloists use the hall 's natural resonance to give the distinct impression that they are enjoying themselves and confirming , to one listener at least , that an important part of enjoying oneself is showing off . |
| 24 | For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit . |
| 25 | In the World of God we find that union with God is only possible when the barrier to that union has been dealt with . |
| 26 | Thirdly , quality is only possible where every component of the organisation 's needs is defined and appropriate training procedures are identified and implemented in order to improve the staff selection process . |
| 27 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 28 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 29 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 30 | As has already been shown , moreover , and as will be referred to again , the combination of a muderrislik and a muftilik was very common in later times , particularly in the case of the Mufti ; and it is entirely possible that the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese carried with it , perhaps even from the start , official or semi-official recognition as mufti of Bursa . |