Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Are n't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant in feeling that you can help people solve their problems in the rest of the world . |
| 2 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 3 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 4 | ‘ How do you know I qualify ? ’ she said without thinking , then flushed as he halted in front of her , his eyes mocking and very definitely blue in the bright morning light . |
| 5 | They 're worth £20 each and not only will they keep you warm but they look great too ! |
| 6 | Reading has historically been viewed as being synonymous with the term remedial and still today it is a priority for attention by members of SENSS teams . |
| 7 | The average Briton who is not attempting to shed weight is consuming between 2,000 and 3,000 calories daily and only around 15 to 20 grams of fibre . |
| 8 | Staring at him in shock , her eyes blank and far too bright , she burst out , ‘ My God ! |
| 9 | Could she erm , bleach my hairs white and then just like , make them look like skin ? |
| 10 | A Soviet offer to host peace talks between the Iranian and Iraqi Foreign Ministers in Moscow was formally presented by the Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Jan. 11 and almost immediately accepted by the two countries . |
| 11 | Thus , extracts related to Chapter 2 precede those related to Chapter 3 and so on , although certain studies are of course relevant to more than one particular aspect of the sociology of crime . |
| 12 | They were both still and quiet , looking at a toad in the rough grass on the bank ; its body was swollen , its legs stiff and straight so that it stood high on its toes , looking like a little table . |
| 13 | 1/My usual method of working is to block in the largest shapes first and then gradually break down into smaller and smaller shapes . |
| 14 | My usual method of working is to block in the largest shapes first and then gradually break down into smaller and smaller shapes . |
| 15 | I 'm saying is , is you ought to get very close to that geographical map because it 's the logistic logistics er difficulty with getting , and you ought to know where there are mountains and where there are valleys and the fact that that , in South Wales they ca n't just go across country , they have to go back down the valley after the M four and up again . |
| 16 | To their alarm Ruby flung back her head , opened her eyes wide and very slowly brought her face level with Rain 's . |
| 17 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 18 | The War Crimes Bill , which provided a legal framework for the prosecution of suspected war criminals and had been rejected by the House of Lords in June 1990 [ see p. 37889 ] , was reintroduced in March 1991 and again effectively rejected by the Lords on April 26 . |
| 19 | When you 've got documents that are printed in Times Roman and very nicely formatted in WordPerfect , a spreadsheet printed out in Courier shatters the illusion . |
| 20 | The thing was hunched , but even so , Cardiff could see that it was at least nine feet tall and somehow impossibly larger than the burnt corpse he had first seen behind the wheel of that car . |
| 21 | I shall not pursue the point here , but it can be developed into one of the explanations for why particular arms races stabilize and do not go on for ever — do not lead to predators pursuing their prey at Mach 2 and so on . |
| 22 | The vegetarians said the cage , five feet high and just over three feet wide , was a true representation of the conditions chickens face . |
| 23 | To make sure you get the magazine you really need , from next month we 've planned lots of exciting changes which will made Parents bigger and even better . |
| 24 | As they passed an STM tip over the surface they applied short bursts of alternating voltage , a few milliseconds long and slightly more than 1.5 volts in amplitude , over particular atoms . |
| 25 | OPEC oil prices peaked at $36 in January 1981 and once again experts predicted a permanent petro-dollar surplus . |
| 26 | Gossip has it that NT has slipped from summer to winter 1992 and now again to sometime in the first half of 1993 . |
| 27 | She would have described herself quite objectively as aged 35 and looking neither older nor younger , height 5 feet 4 and usually just under nine stone with a figure that was well kept rather than dramatic . |
| 28 | He figures it will be significantly faster then the PowerPC 601 and dramatically faster than Tsunami . |
| 29 | So we can put that in the duff one and anyway then ca n't we ? |
| 30 | Okay so now whenever you look at a package holiday brochure , you should be able to identify the market just using two words sunlust alocentric , wanderlust psychocentric and so on . |