Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 2 | One o'clock in Piazza dei Partigiani after a stressful morning at work was very different from eleven o'clock the night before after making love , but Ellen was bubbling with such enthusiasm that he had n't the heart to voice his reservations . |
| 3 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 4 | I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner . |
| 5 | E two if it was carried forward sir after this morning 's discussion also does n't help us because , as the county made clear this morning and made very clear just a minute ago , it would use such a policy , it sees its position as being to block erm the er inward investment planning terms to block it as er erm being out of tune with the county 's general conservation and environmental policies . |
| 6 | With Britain in the midst of a supposed punk revolution , Gedge followed this up a year later in swashbuckling style with an appearance in another G and S production , The Pirates of Penzance . |
| 7 | The job was still done in daylight hours , but you took an hour and half out every day like , but that 's |
| 8 | So they say , oh okay we 've sorted this out a bit now each group just has five pound to share out between fifteen of them . |
| 9 | And try and squeeze a few back a bit further . |
| 10 | What do you feel you know the fact that that that quite a lot of erm well you were saying e you saying that quite a few quite a lot more coloured people live here |
| 11 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 12 | but , but we , we , we might come across this again a bit later on th that i it 's entirely possible that what is being said at the early part is n't actually borne out by the details that come later on . |
| 13 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 14 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 15 | It 's boring … it 's lonely … but it 's amazing how the time just flies … |
| 16 | Bidault , it has been said , leader of the Resistance in occupied France , may have been unaware how the world outside had changed during the war ; but in any event distrusted Ho as a communist as well as a nationalist threat to France 's post-war international position . |
| 17 | The miracle has been performed by the Archbishop of Naples since 1389 when the phial mysteriously first appeared . |
| 18 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 19 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 20 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 21 | Others may feel that the cage has become , or is becoming , somewhat more explicit as a result of central government activity — leading to an emphasis upon the direct controls which would have appeared as unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 22 | Less than half of those who left the commune proceeded to consolidate their strips of land , and of these only a quarter actually moved their homesteads out of the village . |
| 23 | Okay and erm when Dennis was on okay about a week ago |
| 24 | And there is an increasing number of instances of assault at work targeted at community nurses and staff on accident and emergency units in hospital ( Finney , 1988 ) , a circumstance which would have been almost unthinkable even a decade ago . |
| 25 | The government 's position was strengthened further on May 21 when the King formally delegated the legislative powers of the Rashtriya Panchayat ( the Nepali parliament which had been dissolved in mid-April ) to the Bhattarai Cabinet . |
| 26 | If you 're not going as far you 're going slower and then you take that up a level all right |
| 27 | So get it smooth , coat it with copper , polish that up a bit so it 's really nice and shiny and put a fine coating of silver over it |
| 28 | Move that up a bit so a little better . |
| 29 | No , no , no , wait a minute , wait a minute , let me think , this was somewhere , do n't forget they come from all over the bloody country the South of England Show erm , this scrumpy was all somewhere a bit farther north , Cotswolds or |
| 30 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |