Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly lower the elbows apart until a full stretch is obtained . |
| 2 | Slowly lower the forearm to the starting position . |
| 3 | Slowly lower the dumb-bell as far behind the head as possible , keeping the hips down . |
| 4 | Slowly lower the dumb-bell to the back of the head , keeping the upper arm vertical . |
| 5 | Triceps extension — slowly lower the dumb-bell to the back of the head and then press to the vertical position |
| 6 | Slowly lower the arms , still keeping them slightly bent at the elbows until the dumb-bells are level with the chest . |
| 7 | Slowly lower the dumb-bells to the start position . |
| 8 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |
| 9 | If this is so , it renders rather arcane the controversy about whether the dipnois were the true air-sucking lungfish , or the crossopterygii as is recorded in most textbooks . |
| 10 | It was most odd the way this woman had immediately made her feel as though she had to be conciliating . |
| 11 | Rather dear the shirt . |
| 12 | Also at the table were the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Robert Runcie ; Viscount Churchill , a former Lord Mayor of London Sir Robin Gillett , and Lady Gillett ; the Earl and Countess of Strathmore , and the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps the High Commissioner for Cyprus and Mrs Tasos Panayides . |
| 13 | Mostly definite the restaurant . |
| 14 | Taking such a decision although costly in staff time , may over criticism that exhibition hours are designed to suit the staff rather that the public ! |
| 15 | Much of the fall , however , is due to the Gulf crisis , rather that the misfortunes of Vestel 's parent . |
| 16 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 17 | or deftly rabbit-punch a kidney |
| 18 | As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle . |
| 19 | I was somewhere different every day . |
| 20 | That she was looking her best , or that Ven appreciated her appearance was made thrillingly clear a minute later , when she entered the sitting-room . |
| 21 | Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time . |
| 22 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 23 | Er John it looks less defendable every time every time a real person opens their mouths John it becomes less and less defendable ? |
| 24 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 25 | In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year ) |
| 26 | My father , certainly , did not have so pleasant an odour as my mother . |
| 27 | Perfect finish : to store an iced cake without smudging it , put the cake on the lid of the tin and then gently lower the tin on top of it . |
| 28 | At so grotesque a blunder . |
| 29 | One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder . |
| 30 | Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position . |