Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes there is no substitute — but then use as little as possible or go without ! |
| 2 | She taught me the song later , and showed me how to control my voice , open my mouth wide and sing loud or sing softly . |
| 3 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 4 | I have no birth certificate , no National Insurance number , nothing to say I 'm alive or have ever existed . |
| 5 | When faced with the decision about choosing a residential or rest home , you will need to discuss admission to a local authority home with a social worker . |
| 6 | She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile . |
| 7 | No doubt there are many projects much older than this that use only standard ‘ off the shelf ’ items , and which are still quite buildable . |
| 8 | Yea , some that come constantly to our meetings are grossly ignorant ; whereas in one hour 's familiar instruction of them in private , they seem to understand more , and better entertain it than they did in all their lives before . ’ |
| 9 | I believe that my account of events is a good deal nearer the truth than some that have since been published : but then I was perhaps in a better position than some other observers to know what was going on . |
| 10 | But their sports bags , suit-covers and hair scrunchies were so popular that demand quickly outstripped supply . |
| 11 | Have you noticed the chill and damp that pervade everywhere ? |
| 12 | A number of pilot projects in 1993 will research this and bring forward proposals for April 1994 . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 14 | He can rely on this and plan accordingly . |
| 15 | So , striptease is analysed as a statement that moves towards one thing ( sex and evil ) only to contradict this and move immediately away . |
| 16 | ‘ You could drive between Oxford and London in this and feel very fresh . ’ |
| 17 | She added : ‘ We have had so many inquiries about this and have carefully verified it and we want to set their minds at rest . ’ |
| 18 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 19 | Erm they are left er a list of er a blank like this and say right you contracted to take the products now we want from , it 'll be this one say , now we want a list of advertisers who or prospec prospect businesses who you think you 're happy for us to approach for a start . |
| 20 | So could you phone up er your office because I cleared the fact that we can pay with this card cos I thought you might look at this and say well look it 's expired . |
| 21 | I hope that Belgian Ministers involved in the fate of this airfield will read this and consider seriously the disadvantages of closure of Grimbergen , and they should also bear in mind the forthcoming elections ! |
| 22 | The black and white pictures are clear and relate well to the text . |
| 23 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 24 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 25 | The basic elements of the station were already clear and have never changed . |
| 26 | The usual way , however , is to start by using an agent , then opening its own sales office with a limited number of staff and , once profits start to show , allow the unit to become self-sufficient and expand ultimately into manufacturing . |
| 27 | Most of these villages have little access to land , are not self-sufficient and rely heavily on food aid and food-for-work programmes . |
| 28 | John says government has promoted the message that people should become more self-sufficient and rely less on the community . |
| 29 | These tools have often proved to be too language-specific and have often highlighted our need to re-evaluate concepts of language and communication . |
| 30 | The movements themselves are quite poetic and have often been likened to clouds floating in the sky . |