Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This , I am convinced , is one of the strange yet powerful ways we Christians overcome the Evil One . |
| 32 | He could hear the loud yet muffled interchanges between his father , John Carter , and his stepmother of only a few months , Rhoda . |
| 33 | Yet later , after Mubarak 's death , Genet discovers that he did not sleep with women or men ; all of his sexuality was social : ‘ the warmth of that voice had the shy yet imperious sureness of an erect penis stroking a beloved cheek . |
| 34 | You can , for example , create exercises on only the 500 most frequent words , or those words which you have put into your ‘ Unit 15 sluice ’ or your ‘ Banking sluice ’ . |
| 35 | One possible resolution of the first paradox rests on the argument that the market equilibrium is driven by the marginal traders , who are SEU maximizers — the non-marginal possibly non-SEU agents being irrelevant . |
| 36 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 37 | THE sex in the rest of the film , otherwise the usual rather silly collection of schematic cliches by David Hare , follows a similarly leaden pattern . |
| 38 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |
| 39 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 40 | Altogether from first to last , there was evident much , far too much , of the patronising yet dominant " West End " about this opposition " . |
| 41 | Now it seems unthinkable to ask the question : why are the unemployed so poor ? |
| 42 | In the aristocracy this was often external obeisance , but even this was significant , for it underlined the new power of the bourgeoisie , industrially powerful , and from the 1830s politically influential but often morally anxious , particularly under the impact of political instability and economic uncertainty . |
| 43 | ‘ I think I ran out of gas a little bit there , ’ said Chang , the youngest ever French Open champion in 1989 at 17 . |
| 44 | At 24 Sean Hughes was the youngest ever comic to win a Perrier Award . |
| 45 | Such large numbers of the would-be most productive members of society rendered severely disabled or ill could have catastrophic effects on the national economy and development . |
| 46 | Even the would-be socially superior , the boastful , and the priggish may be found to be quite agreeable people once they have relaxed . |
| 47 | Where the school is in the wrong then full and generous apologies and expressions of concern are far more effective in maintaining good relationships than attempts to justify unjustifiable action . |
| 48 | Several features of O. abyssicola and O. granulifera distinguish them from most species of Ophiacantha : the high often indented disk , the arm spines of O. granulifera forming a fan on most proximal arm segments , large conspicuous disk plates and the very wide ventral arm plates are all reminiscent of the Ophioplinthacinae . |
| 49 | This last is finished in an open-weave stretch fabric and is located very simply by two pegs at its base and held back against the baffle by a strong magnet at the top — an exceptionally neat arrangement which , together with the lack of any visible fixings for the driver itself , gives the 103/4 very clean lines whether or not the grille is left in place . |
| 50 | Conversely , because of the universal very steep learning curves with early experience , any novel enterprise is bound to have extensive teething troubles , which should be allowed for in general even though they are not predictable in particular . |
| 51 | Even if the two lists are merged at a later date , the historical traditionally positive attitudes toward the European languages may continue to permeate the philosophy underlying the education system ( including the curriculum and examinations ) . |
| 52 | The health authority , one of the 30 most efficient in the country , is consulting on third-wave trust status because it believes that it can give a better service to patients and local people on that basis . |
| 53 | Once upon a time when I used to read , or hear , about all the exciting even exotic things that apparently all other retired people got up to I used to think ‘ That 's for me ! |
| 54 | Are the British as bad and the French as good at sex as they claim to be ? |
| 55 | But at the same time the British greatly annoyed Washington by their abortive effort to draw Jordan into the Baghdad Pact in the winter of 1955 – 56 — an inept political move . |
| 56 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |
| 57 | To differentiate , one might say that Persians held the British more responsible for Iran 's misfortunes , but the Russians were more feared . |
| 58 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 59 | The Owl of the Remove has been given the old heave-ho for being stoutist , racist and not in the slightest politically correct . |
| 60 | The minutes crawled like tired snails , but the ambulance arrived before Tom had returned from making his phone calls in the study , and with the compassionate yet businesslike speed that Belinda never ceased to admire , the paramedic ambulance officers slid Faye on to a stretcher and carried her to the waiting vehicle , where an intravenous line could be set up immediately . |