Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangers were rarely seen on that private and closely guarded property . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Is that possible as well ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No master pleaded for his future : it seemed that he had traded in his scholarship for that foreign and rather dangerous element-self-expression . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not much of that fabled but very real gold has survived . |
| 10 | you know one popping in and looking after , I find that easier than just putting them down to sleep |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Or do I have that wrong as well ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think it yes well , let let's get that clear as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cos they 're always on about credit allowances and this that and therefore |
| 18 | Only one major problem arose during the course of this extensive but meticulously planned renovation exercise . |
| 19 | It 's not cheap , especially considering the straightforwardness of the design , and there 's some strong and equally nostalgic competition about . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It turns out that the system depends on some subtle and hitherto unnoticed peculiarities of the logic , in combination with general features of graphical representations . |
| 22 | The South Africans claimed that between 600 and 800 SWAPO guerrillas had crossed from Angola into Ovamboland , their party 's home ground ; during the following three days , they said , another 500 or so came over . |
| 23 | This economic and fairly sparse architecture fulfilled the need for simplicity mentioned above . |
| 24 | Beador knew the ground well for he led the way unhesitatingly through a maze of rides , some broad and straight , some narrow and zigzag . |
| 25 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
| 26 | Our recommended list for this relatively-open and well filtered style of tank , with plenty of water movement , is given , plus some recommendations for other styles of community tank . |
| 27 | In this pleasant and mostly satisfying environment , the personal stage of role acquisition occurs . |
| 28 | This strange and very tiring event , designed by the church youth worker , began with a series of strange and tiring games . |
| 29 | I found this strange as apart from 3 years at Leeds , he had been with Sheffield United for 5 years . |
| 30 | But is this broad and almost pantheistic frame of reference in itself any more valid than , for example , the traditional Christian affirmation of the absolute uniqueness of Jesus as the incarnation of God ? |