Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Acquire a veneer of civilization , ’ she said unexpectedly , with a brutal honesty possible only with someone she regarded as an old friend . |
| 2 | Also to make them more user friendly especially for mums with toddlers in tow , they need to be more roomy . |
| 3 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 4 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 5 | It is a bit hypocritical both for the questioner and for the Minister , who is a representative of the Government of unemployment , to criticise potential job losses under a Labour Government . |
| 6 | Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd |
| 7 | They taste a bit different actually to the ones we had . |
| 8 | His pearl is fatally flawed , and to supply the missing leaf , or leaves , in facsimile , even of the right size and type , is a desperate measure acceptable only in cases of extreme age or rarity . |
| 9 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 10 | The population , it was added , was for the most part interested only in their daily problems of work and getting sufficient provisions , and there was little talk about military events . |
| 11 | PSCs were initially absent from all the simulations but began to form first with doubled CO 2 just before day 20 ( 4 January ) and about 10 days later with current CO 2 For three of the simulations the area of PSCs reached a maximum at about day 50 ( 3 February ) before reducing rapidly to zero by early March , corresponding to the rapid increase in temperatures in Fig. 1 . |
| 12 | Under these conditions most of the CO 2 presently in the Cytherean atmosphere would have resided in carbonate rocks . |
| 13 | This suggests that the atmospheric CO 2 on Venus is in equilibrium with these types of surface rock and that there exist on Venus accessible surface repositories of CO 2 mainly in the form of carbonates . |
| 14 | He relates this to the state of culture of his own age , facing dangers of over-specialization , which impoverishes both the religious and artistic sensibilities by separating each from the other , so that only ‘ the vestige of manners may be left for those who , having their sensibility uninformed either by religion or by art , … have nothing left but an inherited behaviour which ceases to have meaning ’ . |
| 15 | Apart from certain exceptional cases , a trustee is entitled to no remuneration for his trouble , unless the terms of the trust so direct , and is liable not only for dishonest dealing with the trust property , but for all loss due either to non-observance of the directions in the settlement and the general rules of law , or to failure on his part to act up to the high standard of care which equity and statute law require of him . |
| 16 | " I find peace of mind acceptable only in winners and in those losers who have exhausted every means at their disposal , and who have peace of mind despite being losers " , noted Nizan in October 1939 , one month after his resignation from the party . " |
| 17 | They also make the point that the one spider that makes daytime webs without stabilimenta , Nephila clavpes , has bright yellow silk , which , they say , makes the web conspicuous enough without the need for resorting to additional warning markers . |
| 18 | Never valuing him enough to be jealous , never arriving suddenly to catch him out , never finding his mail interesting enough to steam open ! |
| 19 | AN actress old enough to be drawing her pension begged to play glamorous Scarlett O'Hara in a sequel to Gone With The Wind . |
| 20 | However , it is possible that Jupiter resembles Figure 9.10 today without having followed this particular evolution . |
| 21 | Ford , on the other hand , was one of Congress 's own as well as an uncontroversial and innocuous figure acceptable even to Democrats . |
| 22 | For their $283m the 75 investors that KKR represents will get preferred stock , convertible after three years into Fleet/Norstar stock at $17.65 a share , plus 6.5m warrants for newly issued Fleet/Norstar stock exercisable immediately at the same price , the last closing price before the purchase was announced . |
| 23 | Better study this further before meeting those American cousins with cookies and candy . |
| 24 | The reason for the different incidence of caries between the sexes , Larsen suggests , lies in the sexual division of labour prevalent then in Georgia and in many other past and present human societies . |
| 25 | The complexities of this network must be understood , and will be explained more fully in Chapter 7 together with suggestions on ways social workers may help to sustain or develop such a network . |
| 26 | By the time the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked ninety-five days later , there would be a total of two killings , two assaults , thirty-five bombings , the taking of one hostage , and seventy-one other ‘ disruptions ’ involving such things as sabotage of railroads , gunfire directed against people , trains , and motor vehicles , property damage , and other incidents of violence serious enough to be noted by the Department of Justice . |
| 27 | Example 4:11 Rent review machinery ; notice , counternotice reference to arbitration ( 1 ) the landlord may serve upon the tenant not earlier than one year before the review date in question a notice ( " a Review Notice " ) calling for a review of the rent ( 2 ) if the landlord serves a Review Notice then the rent payable with effect from the review date to which it relates shall be : ( a ) such sum as may be specified in the Review Notice or ( b ) the higher of the rent payable immediately before that review date and the Market Rent if ( but only if ) the tenant so elects by counternotice in writing served on the landlord not later than two months ( time being of essence ) after the service of a Review Notice ( 3 ) if the tenant serves a counternotice the Market Rent shall be determined in default of agreement within two months after the service of the counternotice by arbitration . |
| 28 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 29 | We 're pleased to have this chirpy , family-run hotel exclusively to Club 18–30 again for Summer '90 in this lively young people 's resort of Faliraki . |
| 30 | The car three ahead of him moved three yards . |