Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must 've been a belt that 's come right through central London and completely missed the suburbs , or North London anyway suburbs |
| 2 | Most significantly , Mirror papers introduced modern printing techniques , processed photos locally for immediate use and speeded up the presses . |
| 3 | A little fishing is carried on , mostly for local consumption and although most supplies have to be imported , milk and eggs are readily available . |
| 4 | As both those particular models of socialism have lost credibility , a debate has opened on the possibility of an alternative definition of the socialist goal — one that occupies a space somewhere between regulated capitalism and centrally planned state socialism , and one that finds a new balance of the strengths and weaknesses of planning and the market . |
| 5 | This type of observation suggests , perhaps , that the most accurate commentaries on the urban disturbances have emerged from those adopting positions somewhere between neo-Marxist interpretations and the central reformist tradition ( Rex , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | " These days it is n't just purchased for capital goods reasons , there is an element of consumer choice , so it 's positioned somewhere between technical equipment and consumer goods . " |
| 7 | Tap dancers as entertainment falls somewhere between colonic irrigation and embalming . |
| 8 | Corinth was also famously cosmopolitan : its prostitutes gave it a reputation somewhere between nineteenth-century Paris and Post-Second World War Saigon : ‘ not everybody has the wealth to go to Corinth ’ the proverb said , and those who did go there might be unlucky and take away more than pleasant memories , judging from the terracotta penises still visible along with models of other parts of the body in the Corinth Museum — dedications by sufferers from venereal disease ( see also AJA , 1941 , 442f . ) . |
| 9 | They have some strong tunes but these are lost somewhere between weak rock and clumsy pop . |
| 10 | They have some strong tunes but these are lost somewhere between weak rock and clumsy pop . |
| 11 | Right Said Fred tread a fine line between sex and seaside postcard humour ; they are the late Benny Hill with a personal fitness instructor , somewhere between gay disco and Club 18–30. and ‘ I 'm Too sexy ’ is a great record , not least because it 's a piss-take of people who fancy themselves sung by people who fancy themselves . |
| 12 | The persona of ‘ the Watcher ’ , which dominates his best writing , was already being formed : his way forward lay somewhere between social openness and egotistical restlessness . |
| 13 | This chronicle of a futile revolutionary uprising in Peru in the 1950s is written in a style which falls somewhere between journalistic investigation and an adventure story . |
| 14 | Martyn Lewis of BBC News is this year 's Question Master and he 'll be pitching the posers — somewhere between Trivial Pursuit and Mastermind standard — to teams of ten from some of the country 's largest companies . |
| 15 | That is , physics in the early years of the nineteenth century meant those parts of science which had not become mathematical ; it occupied a place somewhere between natural philosophy and natural history , alongside chemistry . |
| 16 | He is more enamoured of the lumpy , mottled effect of saltglaze — somewhere between orange peel and porridge . |
| 17 | Some time during the next decade ‘ affordable ’ high-definition television ( HDTV ) sets will reach the mass market , in the meantime the European consumer will shortly be offered a variety of ‘ compromise ’ wide-screen TVs , falling somewhere between true HDTV and conventional models . |
| 18 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 19 | Read widely for historical knowledge and to improve your English . |
| 20 | Immunohistochemistry showed that these distorted hepatocytes stained intensely for cytoplasmic HBsAg and cytoplasmic and nuclear HBcAg ( Fig 2A , B ) . |
| 21 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 22 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 23 | Practise it slowly for maximum benefit and to safeguard your back . |
| 24 | The visibility of the new missiles will force us to think more acutely about nuclear weapons and why , or whether , the world needs them . |
| 25 | He went on about various things but I only half heard him . |
| 26 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 27 | ‘ Willy rambled on about Norman archways and perpendicular naves , as if glad to have some arcane topic to take his mind off the inquest . |
| 28 | What is it going on about liquid gold and gold ? |
| 29 | , I do n't think you 've got anything to worry about , have you seen that advert for Babycham no erm the advert with Babycham , erm , er running on about true romantics and he goes through all the differences his and this woman marrying this guy and she must be and she must be fifty five , and he 's about twenty three , twenty four and Rob turns round the other day and said , she 's got |
| 30 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |