Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 This is a little bit annoying now because
2 It 's all a bit confusing now cos we 've I 've just finished altering the whole of the middle of it but this It was a twenty four foot long main lounge .
3 These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective .
4 I 'm glad about that , cos to tell the truth , she used to get a bit strange sometimes after she took them .
5 Have a look Right so if I give you one fifty , there you are .
6 There are however two difficulties which render this advantage hypothetical rather than real .
7 But then again , you 've got to feel a bit careful there because it can misconstrued totally
8 ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before .
9 Other computer games stocked would be at knockdown prices because they were two or three months old rather than the ‘ latest thing ’ she said .
10 No , i i you see even you use di words different now than than twe twenty years ago .
11 But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . "
12 The alternative method is to provide that upon any adjustment of the base figure , the rent payable immediately before the adjustment becomes a fixed amount payable under the terms of the lease ( or is substituted for a fixed amount previously reserved ) .
13 It was also feared that the market maker system might be by-passed by large powerful institutional investors doing negotiated deals with member firms who carry out the trades in-house rather than through market-makers .
14 Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) .
15 Under the Prime Minister 's leadership , in the last 12 months alone more than 800,000 jobs have gone and during that period the number of people in employment in Britain has gone down by 800,000 .
16 Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics .
17 ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable .
18 She reached the other side unscathed just as the man gave a grunt of triumph and twisted his victim 's hand behind her back , wrenching what looked like a purse out of her hand .
19 But perhaps he could think of no words bad enough because he began to cry instead , loud , gasping sobs , eyes wide and streaming .
20 Migration and urbanisation went together , and in the second half of the nineteenth century the countries chiefly associated with it ( the United States , Australia , Argentina ) had a rate of urban concentration unsurpassed anywhere except in Britain and the industrial parts of Germany .
21 The older woman seemed to find the story intriguing rather than depressing .
22 And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips .
23 And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips .
24 Yet Morgan ( 1972 ) wrote that British East Coast N. lapillus refused to attack L. littorea even when starved for 4 months .
25 The pair want to hear from anyone who had relatives serving with the Tyneside Scottish even if they can only give the name , rank , serial number and home address .
26 There is a procedure by which a plaintiff in a private action may be able to seek redress for a public law wrong even though he or she can not establish sufficient standing in accordance with the above rules .
27 Mr Ueberroth was enlisted to help rebuild South Central even before the ashes had ceased glowing .
28 The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence .
29 Indeed , one of the lay witnesses said that he considered a breach of the peace unlikely even if the police had not been there .
30 By using the time to improve the production process , Intel will be able to make more of the chips available initially than it usually can when it launches a new part , Paul Otellini , vice-president of the company 's microprocessor group noted — a shortage of 80386s in the early days caused disenchantment with the company at many customers for the chip , who encouraged other companies to clone the chip in the hope of ensuring steady supplies .
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