Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
| 2 | An Arsenal player could be the genetically engineered bastard son of a dangerous liaison between Luke Perry and Paul Newman circa 1960 and yet he 'd still look like Pee Wee Herman in his pyjamas if he was playing away . |
| 3 | It was then appropriate to show how ‘ … from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been , and are being evolved ’ . |
| 4 | So what is required is a constriction of awareness which will remove some of the bad feeling and/or make the predicament look less severe or less intractable . |
| 5 | As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year . |
| 6 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 7 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 8 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 9 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 10 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 11 | Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest . |
| 12 | However , this initial , albeit restricted , study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications . |
| 13 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 14 | I 'd get sick eating so early and anyway it 's no fun then . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not easy to hang a fine suit from shoulders so broad and straight as yours , Major . ’ |
| 16 | — flash of light so white and so bright |
| 17 | But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South . |
| 18 | Differs from Black-tailed Godwit at all times in having no white on wings , in feet scarcely projecting beyond tail in flight and in summer in having reddish vent Legs somewhat shorter than both curlews and Black-tailed Godwit ; bill slightly curved upwards at tip . |
| 19 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 20 | They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country . |
| 21 | Those industries are scrutinising much more what they can do to make cars more secure and less easily stolen . |
| 22 | The good reader is soon able to explore pictures , and to explore and search more detailed and more complicated pictures . |
| 23 | Even a prescription of the wrong remedy can sometimes affect the picture of symptoms so as to make the right remedy more obvious and easily discerned . |
| 24 | Act 5 scene 2 ) , the editor provides a second flute , making this moving arioso more Bach-like than ever . |
| 25 | The Prince , his eyes more bulbous than ever , had seized Webster 's arm . |
| 26 | Then he seemed to reach a decision , his night-dark eyes more compelling than ever as he looked back at her . |
| 27 | Comparing Figs. 3.4(a) and 3.4(b) it is apparent that not only are the characteristics still sinusoidal but also the value of peak static torque is unchanged . |
| 28 | Though the definition of infallibility was a good deal more circumscribed than often presented , Vatican I did what its promoters had asked of it . |
| 29 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 30 | All could agree on the need to secure appropriate action from parliament and government , but how far this required agitation of mass support at different times and how much deference should be paid to the judgement and tactics of parliamentary abolitionists were points of tension both early and late within antislavery . |