Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 2 | WHAT COULD be more important or intriguing than our own origins ? |
| 3 | While nowhere near as impressive or effective as their earlier work , this is certainly nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 4 | In class warfare , for instance , oppressed people easily find themselves claiming to be just as noble or gentlemanly as their supposed betters , without properly criticising existing ideas of nobility or gentility . |
| 5 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 6 | But even as the idea occurred to her , she dismissed it ; from the athletic way Fernand had cleared the rail it was likely that his legs were as strong and muscular as his sinewy arms and he would probably catch her long before she reached the house . |
| 7 | Let me show you that all men are n't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker . |
| 8 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 9 | Historically , the American police has almost certainly been more violent and corrupt than its British counterpart . |
| 10 | It is a suitable environment for the great parfumier who creates perfumes as complex and sophisticated as his own experience . |
| 11 | Two brothers , as friendly and informative as their Christian counterparts , showed me around the palace . |
| 12 | It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart . |
| 13 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 14 | If local scepticism tends to collapse into global scepticism , this may be an advantage , since global sceptical arguments are generally more convincing and effective than their local counterparts . |
| 15 | Far more cool , calm and level-headed than his 22 years should allow , he is one of the new breed : intent on restoring a live , funkier and altogether more sincere approach to modern dance music . |
| 16 | Continental working classes are more violently atheistic and anticlerical than their British counterparts . |
| 17 | At first she used a more rigid approach , along the lines of her training in Coburg , then gradually adapted and developed this to suit the English students who were not quite so young and athletic as their German counterparts ! |
| 18 | As void and null as her feeble attempts to find out what he did n't want to tell her the night of the paella . |
| 19 | In the case of Japan collective agreements tend to be notably more general and abstract than their western counterparts , a characteristic — so it is claimed — of the nature of Japanese personal relations in which there is reluctance to have one 's rights and obligations closely defined ( Hanami , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | The next sign of progress in the development of South African cricket will be when a fair number of the team have Xhosa and Zulu as their first language of fluency ! |
| 21 | As for the rhythm pickup , a Seymour SSL2 Vintage with flat polepieces , it 's superb — much more full , balanced and usable than your average Tele neck pickup . |
| 22 | So you must n't be bruised and disappointed because your impeccable piece is turned down . |
| 23 | Choose a perfume as confident and modern as your smartest suit . |
| 24 | K2 is a superb mountain and marvellous as my first 8000m summit . |
| 25 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 26 | Without answering , he covered her parted lips with his own , his tongue entwining with hers in a kiss as deep and sensitive as his ultimate possession of her body . |
| 27 | She is furious that he has married beneath him , but appalled when her vicious attack on him threatens to end their relationship for ever . |