Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is less widely used than it once was , it is found in some bronchodilators and cough mixtures . |
| 2 | I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp . |
| 3 | The following evening Penry rang again , but this time he spoke to Elise , who was rather mystified when he politely declined to speak to Leonora . |
| 4 | It was rather grubby so we just painted it all white and , as I suspected , David 's imagination , after it was painted , came into heavy play . |
| 5 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the classic green and reds with a simple check that prove the most popular and we often recolour tartans in various forms . |
| 7 | When there , when you say a union , what do you mean a union in a true sense of the word , or do you mean an organisation , which is something va vastly different because they way your , they way your saying this to me , this does n't sound like a union at all . |
| 8 | It was most inconvenient and she often wished he would leave her alone . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 10 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 11 | Sometimes these first impressions are so strong that they stubbornly linger and defy revision even when different signals are being transmitted by subsequent visual behaviours . |
| 12 | Yet the response from other corporate finance advisers looking for a vehicle in which to advertise , on a confidential basis , acquisition and disposal opportunities they are involved in was ‘ so strong that we then only had to say it was happening , do you want to be part of it ? — and most of the intermediaries did ’ . |
| 13 | There were some constituencies where the interest of a local patron was so strong that he effectively had the power of nominating MPs . |
| 14 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 15 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 16 | ‘ The feeling was so strong that I actually felt quite emotional — almost tearful , ’ says Julie . |
| 17 | The underlying structure of the international system , crucial for Neo-Realism , is offered as an explanation of behaviour so strong that it no longer matters how , or even whether , the actors understand the world about them . |
| 18 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 19 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |
| 20 | The self-image of older people is closely linked with morale , which for many has sunk so low that they often do not wish to continue living . |
| 21 | But we must drive inflation down so low that it no longer affects the decisions made by ordinary people , businesses and government . |
| 22 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 23 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 24 | I lie and ask him to comfort M and D and Minny , and Caroline who must feel so guilty and everyone else , even the ones it would do good to suffer for me ( or for anyone else ) . |
| 25 | Mr Knight was so upset that he immediately resigned his seats on Essex County , Tendring District and Harwich Town councils . |
| 26 | fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more |
| 27 | And very upset that she looked so awful because we always thought she looked so lovely . |
| 28 | At that the king 's son was so sorry that he nearly died himself . |
| 29 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 30 | B'ham West Branch 's recent ‘ Home Birth ’ study day was so over-subscribed that they now have an account of the day available from , , price £1 . |