Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 2 | During the journey up-river the effect the war is having on the country is portrayed in striking , sometimes surreal images . |
| 3 | I think that if today we can give a little help to those who are carrying on the race the money will not be wasted , ’ ( House of Commons Debate , Vol. 300 , col. 1634 ) . |
| 4 | " Scald a sufficient quantity of fruit , and pulp it through a sieve , add sugar agreeable to taste , make a thick layer of this at the bottom of your dish : mix a pint of milk , a pint of cream , and the yolks of two eggs : scald it over the fire , observing to stir it : add a small quantity of sugar , and let it get cold : then lay it over the apples or gooseberries with a spoon , and put on the whole a whip [ a syllabub ] made the day before . |
| 5 | She came downstairs , hung on the wall a portrait of himself that Robin had painted , and his easel below it ; and gave orders that they were not to be removed . |
| 6 | For daughters who take on the role the identification of the caring responsibility is probably much more complex and is related to a variety of factors including the services which are available , the needs of the older person , the type of relationship and feelings of filial responsibility . |
| 7 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
| 8 | ‘ It would take months to sell off all that lot , especially the way the market is now , ’ a merchant banker said . |
| 9 | We had no money in our pockets , but er we 're talking about er er er economics , and Marxian economics at that , er and funnily enough the chap the chap who did that , er Bert , he was unemployed , he was he was one of the fellows from Derbyshire who was victimized in Derbyshire . |
| 10 | Yes yes Are you going to slacken down the dancing a bit when she 's in secondary school ? |
| 11 | Incidents like this happen up and down the country every day . |
| 12 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 13 | Further down the hierarchy the proportion of the population living in Other Dominant cities ( cities at the core of the twenty major urban regions excluding the top six — e.g. Nottingham , Edinburgh , Coventry , Brighton ) fell marginally , that of Subdominants ( medium-sized cities surrounding the Dominants ) ruse by one percentage point and that of Freestanding cities went up by nearly two percentage points . |
| 14 | ‘ If you are to go into this business in a big way , you want to think of buying in ready-made uppers for men 's boots , that would cut down the work a lot , mind . ’ |
| 15 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 16 | Further down the alleyway the wood had shrunk in a fence leaving a knot-hole big enough to see through . |
| 17 | ‘ Mike ? ’ a deep voice boomed down the line a moment later . |
| 18 | Further down the line the rot may have set in . |
| 19 | I was down the market every day with my shopper , dear , for veg . |
| 20 | Further down the train the man in the long dark coat also climbed aboard . |
| 21 | If Alex James just ran up and down the pitch a couple of times and said , ‘ Right , that 's my lot for today ’ , Whittaker knew the reason he could n't do any more was because his legs were covered in bruises , as they frequently were . |
| 22 | Further down the table the priest tapped the table gently , singing some hymn softly under his breath . |
| 23 | And partly because York was going down the plughole a bit in the fourteen fifties as well . |
| 24 | Trading vessels went down the canal every week to Grimsby and Hull and every month to London . |
| 25 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 26 | Perhaps the thing the world owes to Sir Karl Popper is the death blow he has dealt to this naive , inductivist view of how science progresses . |
| 27 | So the decision a judge must make in hard cases is discretionary in this strong sense : it is left open by the correct understanding of past decisions . |
| 28 | And so the issue the discussion has focused on , from where I 'm sitting , seems to have focused on is , you know can one afford to let loose a strategic policy and could such a policy be written in a way that it would work for inward investment attraction without being a a Trojan horse as you know letting in a lot of other nasty things . |
| 29 | So the way the way of doing it . |
| 30 | So the horizon the background would be would be different , but what would be the same ? |