Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of extensive research in a number of congregations in the United States , Peter Wagner has postulated an estimate of ten per cent who are either effectively or potentially gifted as evangelists . |
| 2 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 3 | If the feminist folklinguistic belief that women are less or differently logical than men is a matter of content , it could be that this is the sort of thing feminists have in mind . |
| 4 | We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals . |
| 5 | It seems to me much better and less confusing if you admit in print that you were wrong . |
| 6 | It 's bigger , better and more varied than the original . |
| 7 | The stream can be followed down towards the railway viaduct , the drab surroundings being suddenly and unexpectedly relieved when the stream , innocuous thus far , plunges over the edge of a limestone gorge . |
| 8 | but it was cold when we got in and even colder when we got out , so if we all go down with pneumonia that will |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two deep , mournful noises , one a little deeper and more mournful than the other . |
| 11 | She could feel the almost-accidental brush of his hand against her hair and felt herself flood with a warmth deeper and more insistent than the scalding heat of the water in which they were immersed . |
| 12 | But be warned : trade flows are less and less useful as indicators of economic performance |
| 13 | They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken . |
| 14 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 15 | So But as far as the drink er No . |
| 16 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 17 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 18 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 19 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 20 | TP280 , a Mk.XVIII , a Griffon-powered machine , longer and much heavier than the ‘ lX TE566 , was running a little behind schedule and perilously close to the show deadline . |
| 21 | Yet the war proved far longer and more destructive than had been generally expected . |
| 22 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 23 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 24 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 25 | Faced with drought , the Las Vegas Valley Water District has made 146 applications for access to 26 underground basins as far as 250 miles away and as much as 1,000 feet below the surface . |
| 26 | High above and far other than our world |
| 27 | ‘ Then I 'll wish for the first and last dance tonight and as many as you can spare in between , ’ Harry rejoined , and was pleased to see that Cora-Beth was actually blushing . |
| 28 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 29 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 30 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |