Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangers were rarely seen on that private and closely guarded property . |
| 2 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 3 | It was humiliating admitting as much , but she had never felt so attracted , so excited by the physical appearance of a man . |
| 4 | For me , it is enough to have seen the extraordinary gold web of your hair , and to have touched that whitest and most delicate cheek with my lips . ’ |
| 5 | to get in , three fifty each and then we paid another six pound , ten P and for that we had popcorn , Minstrels , one large Coke , a lot bigger than that and two small ones , and of course everything 's got like all this on |
| 6 | Perhaps all that it is safe to say in this context is that very commonly around the world one finds an unfossiliferous quartzite conformably below fossiliferous Lower Cambrian and unconformably above a great variety of Precambrian rocks . |
| 7 | Is that possible as well ? |
| 8 | Those mariners set about whaling , settling , plundering ; they established a presence in Hawaii ; they shared with Britain the spoils of the Chinese treaty ports ; they took Samoa ; they befriended Korea ; they seized and settled Midway , Wake , Guam and ( a spoil of an Imperial war ) the Philippines — thus creating a series of stepping-stones , a lifeline of tropical islands that led all the way to that greatest and most elusive prize , the Middle Kingdom , China . |
| 9 | I know have to give my conclusions to the resolution of that conflicting and often very , very massive evidence as to how the plaintiff 's care routine will change , when it will change and from where the carers will come . |
| 10 | You might remember him as Simon Booth from Working Week , that brave if ultimately flawed melting-pot of disparate rhythms and cultures , whose anarchic soul was mistaken for jazz revivalism and who ended up being misunderstood by both record company and public alike . |
| 11 | After 5 October 1968 a poorly organised and deeply divided movement attempted to apply some of the methods used in the Deep South . |
| 12 | No master pleaded for his future : it seemed that he had traded in his scholarship for that foreign and rather dangerous element-self-expression . |
| 13 | More immediately , while realism dictated that Mary would go to England when she married , Henry was told very bluntly that she must not go sooner : such a demand would be ‘ a right high and right great inconvenience to the realm of Scotland ’ , and parliament trusted to the English king 's ‘ high wisdom ’ , and assumed that he would not insist . |
| 14 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 15 | Not much of that fabled but very real gold has survived . |
| 16 | Of course , Brian himself was a boss , if one counted being Head of Humanities in a poorly funded and now much-threatened Adult Education Institute as being a boss . |
| 17 | Particularly in the universities , and even more particularly in those universities which have a strong residential and sometimes collegial tradition , the experience of higher education is regarded as a unity , a totality , an organic whole ( or in more modern terms a package ) which it is neither desirable nor possible to dissect . |
| 18 | It is anti-static stain-resistant and very hardwearing . |
| 19 | you know one popping in and looking after , I find that easier than just putting them down to sleep |
| 20 | The concept of balance implies that a trade-off is always possible ; that different and sometimes mutually exclusive objectives can be accommodated simply by spatial separation . |
| 21 | Or do I have that wrong as well ? ’ |
| 22 | The petals of the flowers had dropped , and spilled brown and carelessly over the floor . |
| 23 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 24 | I think it yes well , let let's get that clear as well . |
| 25 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 26 | You , my dear , you 're half in love with your husband , then there 's Martha who 's half a child and half a girl , Richard who ca n't give up being half in the Navy , Willis who 's half an artist and half a longshoreman , a cat who 's half alive and half dead . |
| 27 | Cos they 're always on about credit allowances and this that and therefore |
| 28 | Only one major problem arose during the course of this extensive but meticulously planned renovation exercise . |
| 29 | It 's not cheap , especially considering the straightforwardness of the design , and there 's some strong and equally nostalgic competition about . |
| 30 | More generally one can say that for attitudinism ethical statements invite the hearer ( or perhaps the speaker when in discourse with himself ) to express his agreement or disagreement in attitude , or perhaps join in a shared attempt to arrive at some stable and better based attitude , towards what is in question , and that this is quite a different matter from any discussion concerning the psychological state , of approving or disapproving , on either the speaker 's or hearer 's part . |