Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't got this conception of that , that the inside and the outside of the body and what 's important is to keep the inside clean and so , this is extended also to the caravans . |
| 2 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 3 | She was also told in order to calm her down that a blood transfusion was most unlikely and she did not have to face , it appears , the possible serious or even fatal consequences of her decision . |
| 4 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 5 | The pages of the Law Society Gazette in the late sixties and early seventies suggest that the conspirators included such august bodies as the British Broadcasting Corporation , Her Majesty 's Government , the political left and right , the popular press , university academics and ‘ certain quarters ’ which remained unspecified . |
| 6 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 7 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 8 | the eight hundred or so staff have all been retained and I 'm sure it will help us to continue our penetration into the leisure and retail sectors . ’ |
| 9 | The second , the Green movement , is a very widely based and variegated collection of individuals and groups that includes those on the fringes of the global capitalist system as well as some who are fundamentally opposed to it , mainly from the libertarian left but also from the authoritarian right . |
| 10 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 11 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 12 | Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so . |
| 13 | On Thu , 21 Oct 1993 wrote : The slowest fatest and most passed it was Kenny Burns . |
| 14 | Well over two million of that diaspora regard themselves as victims of the 1948 war ; the half million or so who fled Palestine in 1948 have had children — in many cases grandchildren — who regard themselves as Palestinians . |
| 15 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |
| 16 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 17 | In addition to the half dozen or so field officers patrolling the districts , some of the areas in the northern authority have provision for a small number of additional posts . |
| 18 | Of the half dozen or so packages available the two sent for test were InteCalc and InteWord ; a spreadsheet and word processor respectively . |
| 19 | An assistant education officer is in charge of one of the half dozen or so branches into which the work of the education service is divided , such as secondary education or further education . |
| 20 | From the widely reported experience of the Victoria Press in London ( which survived into the 1880s , though Emily Faithfull had moved on by then ) and the lesser known and less successful Caledonian Press in Edinburgh , what provisional conclusions can usefully be drawn ? |
| 21 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 22 | Cut off after number fifteen with tho the top one as well but I 'll |
| 23 | The bass clef is the normal one used for tenor trombones , the tenor clef being used for the top fifth or so of their compass . |
| 24 | The top dozen or so jockeys would expect to ride over half the winners in a season . |
| 25 | Perhaps a new young star would make his insistent mark on the golfing heavens ; or , more likely , one of the top dozen or so established golfers would add to his bank balance . |
| 26 | This year they celebrate 20 years together during which time they have flowered as one of the top dozen or so string quartets world wide . |
| 27 | Remove any dry outer leaves , cut off the top third or more and lightly bruise the fleshy base . |
| 28 | Previously , only the top forty or so top-winning show dogs were invited to compete . |
| 29 | The Who 's Who is a book of weighty significance masquerading as a fun succession of player profiles compiled from questionnaires sent to the top 350 or so players in the four home countries . |
| 30 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |