Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Porter , one of the country 's most respected authorities on paediatrics , had taken a shy Puerto Rican intern called Carmen Rodriguez under his wing twenty years ago and given her the confidence to start up her own practice soon after graduating from medical school , and she was now one of New York 's most popular and in demand paediatricians . |
2 | Then contact me now — you 're my ideal woman I 'm 20 , rather good-looking and in need of the feminine touch . |
3 | But whereas middle class women were described as physiologically weak and in need of treatment , working class women were considered physiologically strong and potentially polluting . |
4 | The study of English seemed to provide direct access to an apparently historical but in fact imaginary world in which a uniform English national character was fully harmonized with unique individual diversity and independence . |
5 | His silly face , so meaningless and without awareness of danger , seemed translated into sense through his return to music , and his entire concentration on the rhythms of the jig — Nicandra felt exhausted and exasperated by the realization that it was not in her power to be either kind or cruel to Silly-Willie . |
6 | Secondly , since the ICC rules depend upon adoption by contract their success depends in large measure on the existence of an institutional structure sufficiently homogeneous and of contract terms sufficiently stan-dardized to ensure the likelihood of such adoption . |
7 | How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health . |
8 | Though constantly ill and in pain , his vision and capacity to inspire others never deserted him . |
9 | I have returned home feeling much better and of course , will be ever so grateful to the Association . |
10 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
11 | I was only fourteen and under age by four years ( and covered in bruises from playing football with the lads ) . |
12 | The following will all come in useful but with experience you may find alternatives that suit you better . |
13 | Indeed , with farming especially brisk and with recruitment affecting the labour market , the French war years were associated with " buoyant and rising " female wages This may also have been the case in Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Rutland . |
14 | I I have to disagree with er Mr of , I think this criterion is crucially important and in fact what Peter has just said , reemphasises my view that er the important sub-regional and regional issue is the relationship between York and Leeds in this er under this criterion . |
15 | Not all the winds of the last decade have , by any means , been unfavourable , nor has the ship been entirely rudderless and without power . |
16 | Residential provision is extremely important and at present totally inadequate in terms of the extent of the need . |
17 | She was normally so cool and in command in the presence of men , but he made her feel gauche . |
18 | The authorities have responded to complaints of increasing truancy with legislation apparently strict but in practice almost ineffective . |
19 | The fact that I was only 14 and under age by four years ( and covered in bruises from playing football with the lads ) did n't matter . |
20 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
21 | Ever so cheap and of course I have n't got a fridge I bought all their frozen stuff |
22 | I 'm not so silly and in love that I do n't know that . |
23 | Noreen and Rosie became very scared seeing their mother so frightened and in pain . |
24 | This was considered generally impractical and in view of the particular difficulties of carrying out social research in Belfast , probably unattainable . |
25 | All areas have a few stone buildings which were of vital importance but , in a district like northern England or Normandy , where stone is easily accessible and in abundance , understanding of construction in masonry developed much earlier . |
26 | But at lunchtime on Thursday , England 's management were horrified to see that the cooked food provided for their players at the ground was already cold and in need of reheating . |
27 | But that 's just the start ; counts of 200 are not uncommon and in summer 1984 the pollen count in central London reached a record 820 . |
28 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
29 | Erm so I 'm not unhappy and about competence as well . |
30 | Showers were not compulsory and in fact only a few boys took advantage of this facility . |