Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mat was good too , because he did n't want to arrive at her place hot and flustered ; not today , not with her at the end of the walk , not with that subtle but unequivocal promise there , waiting , ready . |
| 2 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 3 | No reason has to be given either to her present doctor or to the one to whom she wishes to change , but undoubtedly it can facilitate the change-over and make the new doctor more likely to be willing to accept her if she has some sensible but low-key reason ready should there be any query . |
| 4 | When committing himself enthusiastically to an undeniably outrageous tactic , this brave and noble warrior not only left his mark on the opposition but touched significantly upon a dilemma that threatens to develop into an insurmountable and perhaps crucifying problem for Bobby Robson , the temporarily reprieved England manager . |
| 5 | ‘ Lack of available information was one of the problems highlighted , so with this colourful and informative booklet now available we hope the situation will be improved , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) Women lack some moral or cognitive capacity therefore ( 2 ) Women ( must ) lack authority . |
| 7 | As previous closures have shown , this acidic and toxic floodwater eventually finds its way into waterways . |
| 8 | But with the world population of this fascinating and endearing ape close to extinction , any effort to stabilize the situation must be worthwhile . |
| 9 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 10 | What this harsh and regimented scheme urgently needed was the integration of feminine and domestic influences , setting free ‘ feminine powers into Workhouses , Hospitals , Schools , Orphanages , Lunatic Asylums , Reformatories and even Prisons ’ . |
| 11 | Get this restful and relaxing weekend off to a tranquil start by sharing a creative or imaginative vision with a loved one and working out how it can be woven into your future together . |
| 12 | This folded and thrusted belt probably represents the partial subduction of the western fringe of the Brazilian Shield , and the major change of the orientation of the Andes at the Amotape cross structure seems to be the result of the movement of separate basement blocks in the back-arc zone . |
| 13 | Regrettably , this illogical and antediluvian attitude still persists even when we are dealing with nations substantially richer than ourselves . |
| 14 | The only gain she 'd got was it was about another two or three foot up to the ceiling . |
| 15 | This new and fertile soil rapidly developed her character and painting style . |
| 16 | Two young , fit squaddies desperately need the help of any females from 16 to 55 to save us from this dull and boring existence- Please , please keep us from talking to the penguins any longer — write now ! |
| 17 | There is so much of this careless and misleading stuff around that our awareness of history — which is the living part of heritage — is being corrupted . |
| 18 | ‘ The judges felt that in this wild and exposed situation only a very tough and challenging building both in design and construction would be appropriate . ’ |
| 19 | Such random or non-serial ordering thoroughly fragments the middles of some recent fiction : equal irreverence for convention appears , sometimes explicitly , in its beginnings and endings . |
| 20 | Such incomplete and imperfect evidence naturally limited the validity of inferences and generalizations based on it , although this was seldom apparent at the time . |
| 21 | But no Romanized townships sprang up ; there were no farmstead villas of the type found in southern Britain ; and the sheer cost in fortification , roadworks and supplies required to maintain a presence in such bleak and unrewarding country finally defeated even the most assiduous empire-builders . |
| 22 | All that should be done is that , if that improbable and unlikely event ever takes place , the courts should decline to enforce the clause . |
| 23 | Observe , however , that negative and positive feedback respectively correspond to the loop gain being positive and negative in equation ( 10.26 ) . |
| 24 | Hostess work in some of the clubs involved little more than chiselling money out of tourists for fake champagne , and the money that changed hands for street assignations almost invariably led to an instant disappearance with no follow-through . |
| 25 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 26 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 27 | But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away . |
| 28 | If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually . |
| 29 | Here was the Acropolis , which had dominated the city since the second millennium BC , and older than Judaic Jerusalem ( King David 's city ) by 500 years ; the Agora , the civic centre , formerly situated between the Acropolis and the main gate to the city ; both being crowned by the remains of the Parthenon , that geometric and architectural treasure widely copied — from Birmingham , England , to Nashville , Tennessee . |