Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha bolted out of the door and crashed through the hedge into Mada Joyce 's yard , expecting to hear her grandmother 's shout of rage behind her and all the more fearful when only silence pursued her . |
| 2 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 3 | This was exacerbated by the general unruliness of society , which was perhaps more deep-seated than further south , and although the emergence of the Neville and Percy families to a position of dominance in the region provided some barrier to external threats , their mutual rivalry was detrimental to local order and a potential threat to the economy of the area . |
| 4 | Gamma scintigraphy has been shown to be more sensitive than either radiography or the standard acid reflux test in the detection of gastro-oesophageal reflux , with a sensitivity of 85.5% , compared with 69.5% with the standard acid reflux test and 27.5% with radiography . |
| 5 | To date , Washington has amassed career earnings of $512,272 , ( 7/4/92 ) , a figure which demonstrates to others who might be thinking of following in his footsteps that tennis can be as lucrative as either baseball or basketball . |
| 6 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 7 | As far as actually Pebble Mill the programme . |
| 8 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |