Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , realization of ( o ) is much more variable than this very idealized representation implies , although ( as even the small amount of data in table 6.4 suggests ) it is certainly constrained by the factors specified . |
| 2 | Craigbarnet had been supported , at considerable inconvenience , by the Montrose interest , mainly in order to please the head of the Stirling family , Stirling of Keir , who was a relative of the Duke of Montrose , but no sooner was Craigbarnet out of the running than another potentially explosive dispute arose which might well have set the Duke of Montrose at variance with Lord Elphinstone or another valuable ally , Dundas of Lethem . |
| 3 | In return , William was required to recognize that , since the fief he held of the bishop was now larger than those any other lord had bestowed on him , he ought to be ‘ a better man ’ of the bishop than of any of his other lords . |
| 4 | On trying the TL for the first time , more than one recently deafened person has said with astonishment , ‘ The world has come alive again . ’ |
| 5 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 6 | If some sexually frustrated dickhead wants to waste twelve quid on this tripe that 's his problem , but I 'm sure ZZAP ! readers will have more sense . |
| 7 | It is essential that the collapse of the stellar core is asymmetric because perfect spherically symmetric motion leaves the external Schwarzschild metric unaffected . |
| 8 | Furthermore , in warmer climates where Haemonchus spp. are prevalent , this system can prove dangerous since this very pathogenic genus establishes in both sheep and cattle . |
| 9 | If what I said above is true , since any observationally adequate linguistics describes the superficial form of the text the unique source of linguistic insight must reside in the deeper explanations offered by the linguistic theory . |
| 10 | Whilst some very local cult developed quickly , it spread only in the mid-fifteenth century , from which time come all the extant depictions of him ( complete with diabolical captive ) , in groups from Norfolk ( Cawston , Suffield , Gateley ) , Suffolk ( St Gregory 's , Sudbury , and possibly Bury St Edmunds Abbey ) and Devon ( Hennock , Alphington , and Wolborough ) ; two texts of a lengthy invocation to him ; and the prosecution ( in 1448 ) of the then vicar of North Marston for counterfeiting his head from an exhumed skull . |
| 11 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 12 | The lightweight ‘ On And On ’ gains pounds as that naggingly effective chorus does what all choruses are supposed to do and lodges itself in your memory banks . |
| 13 | As each slightly shamefaced figure came up to the table , she peered intently at the face , muttered ‘ Sweet or dry ? ’ and then poured from one of her bottles as if administering Syrup of Figs or Cod Liver Oil to the infant sick . |
| 14 | Mozart wrote the part of Ramiro for a castrato , perhaps expecting greater power than Katherine Steffan conveyed , at least until the final aria when this previously rational character loses his cool . |
| 15 | Now , when this very similar application came up before , it was opposed by the county highway authority erm , had no objection , county conservation er , recommended refusal . |
| 16 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 17 | It is essentially peaceful and when some rather fussy penitent told his father confessor that he could find nowhere in London where he could meditate in quiet and peace , he was astonished to hear the caustic answer : ‘ Have you tried Marylebone , my son ? ’ |
| 18 | As one very senior official put it , ‘ The IMF was real Cabinet government but it was very unusual . |