Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used . |
| 2 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , the twin bells of a sturdily traditional wind-up clock squeal , wakening another slumbering pair , younger , fresher , clearly less ossified in their morning habits than the first but equally resistant to the day . |
| 4 | In the seventeenth century the broad water of the Thames was used far more than the narrow and often bad roads for practical transport and festive occasions . |
| 5 | As already indicated , £20 — £39 embraced an assortment of yeomen , minor gentry , and lesser merchants and manufacturers who in towns , other than the biggest and most important , might well have formed the ruling elite . |
| 6 | They can hardly be surprised when others make use of this representation rather than the narrower and more qualified one . |
| 7 | Warm , loving and consistent discipline , in which reasons are given ( when the child can understand them ) , is thought to produce the rational sort of ‘ obedience ’ rather than the mindless and emotionally dependent following of orders . |
| 8 | It was an age of militarism , though not yet of popular militarism ; its wars and battles were a good deal more than the courtly and rather ineffective rituals which some historians have tended to imagine . |
| 9 | Budgets in the public sector should serve a number of purposes rather than the single and rather narrow concept of compliance . |
| 10 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 11 | Once the wealthiest and most populous of the great powers , in 1880 she had 15.7 per cent of the European population . |
| 12 | ONCE THE hippest and most respected writer in America , Mailer 's stock has fallen since the early '70s , a trend not helped by his disastrous relationship with Hollywood . |
| 13 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 14 | Such a theory will find it hard to repudiate the accusation of being little more than a clever but patently transparent artifice . |
| 15 | And nothing appeals to an experienced hunter more than a wounded or somehow disabled prey . |
| 16 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |
| 17 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 18 | Although an amiable and scrupulously honest man he was tactless , politically naïve , and , like Bute , doctrinaire . |
| 19 | Underlying this , was the idea that if the more and less able pupils used different strategies these could be identified . |
| 20 | This is probably because the youngest and fittest miners are involved in the more strenuous tasks at the coal face , while the older and less fit do other underground work or gain surface employment . |
| 21 | Frequent long motorway journeys are a feature of the Kings ' life , and while the larger and more powerful 405 is favoured for these trips , the 305 is equally at home on the school run or the motorway . |
| 22 | In developing countries , energy can be used wastefully by whoever has the money to use it , while the poorer and less powerful go without . |
| 23 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 24 | Perhaps this was just as well since the jolly but rather juvenile japes her sister embarked upon might not have pleased her . |
| 25 | Consequently , syllabuses and teachers ' guides which depend on the full official time allocation for their completion , and many do , are doomed to failure , whereas a shorter and more manageable core , with optional and enrichment materials for better endowed schools and better teachers would ensure that minimum content was taught . |
| 26 | Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly . |
| 27 | Just before the formal toasts and after the famous and highly informal ‘ toast to the Divisions ’ was a presentation to by Vice President 's lady , , on behalf of the ladies . |
| 28 | This provides the opportunity to test empirically whether the theoretical and largely feminist reconceptualisation of politics is borne out by incorporating a set of activities traditionally overlooked by conventional research into political behaviour . |
| 29 | But run too far in unsuitable shoes , whether the cheapest or most expensive on the market , and your feet will tell you . |
| 30 | When the largest and most ambitious building projects , the so-called ‘ palaces ’ , are interpreted as temples , that preoccupation with religion is thrown into even higher relief . |