Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 2 | Did you take too little or too much liquid on board ? |
| 3 | My open fire is erratic — having either too little or too much draw . |
| 4 | This is a good way of doing things in that it enables what is effectively a limitless number of different codes to be used , with as little or as much data as desired being attached to each code . |
| 5 | And this year there 's been very little change altogether , you may have noticed that or very little change at all . |
| 6 | Cos you just dividing three hund You just divide the three hundred and sixty up into seven eight or how many bits |
| 7 | As Ayer said , ‘ what is required to verify a statement about a material thing is never the occurrence of precisely this or precisely that sense-content , but only the occurrence of one or other of the sense-contents that fall within a fairly indefinite range ’ ( Ayer , 1946 , p. 12 ) . |
| 8 | Among the big gainers , Tonka 's 16.5% 1997 bond , Macy 's 14.5% 1998 , Southland 's 14.5% 1995 and RJR Nabisco 's 17% 2007 have all seen their price rise by half or more this year . |
| 9 | Even Emil Fischer , in propounding the idea that proteins were built up by a standard linkage ( -CO-NH- ) between different amino acids , apparently did not envisage molecules containing more than 30 or so such units , corresponding to no more than 300 atoms which is much too small . |
| 10 | The road yaws out in front of us , and it is clear that yet another armadillo has been chucked overboard . |
| 11 | It starts to become apparent , very very clear that not all nationalists are good liberals . |
| 12 | However , it is clear that not all aspects of deixis can be treated truth-conditionally , as we shall see below , and there are considerable problems even for the apparently tractable cases . |
| 13 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 14 | It is clear that not all pupils will , by the age of 16 , be able to cope with texts which combine all such dimensions of difficulty . |
| 15 | It seems to be clear that not enough use is made of solicitors for the solution of legal problems . |
| 16 | Since three out of every four owners report behavioural problems with their dogs at some stage , it is clear that probably most strays are discarded for this reason , rather than because of other factors such as family break-ups or emigration . |
| 17 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 18 | Mr Zaphiriou seems to state that the whole of the Treaty and all regulations are directly applicable in this country ( p 4 ) , yet sec 2 ( 1 ) of the European Communities Act , 1972 , makes it abundantly clear that only those rules of Community law , be they derived from the Treaty or the acts of the institutions , which are directly applicable under Community law have direct effect in this country . |
| 19 | It is clear that very many pupils find great difficulties with the concept of percentage . |
| 20 | By the 1870s , when it became clear that very little investment capital was going to flow from private sources or joint-stock ventures , and that the German people as a whole now viewed the development of the economy as part of the business of creating a strong and unified Reich , the Bank of Prussia became essential to all major German long-term investment plans . |
| 21 | More popular than ever this summer are the Town Gardens , 100 years old next year . |
| 22 | You know , in some countries it is against the law to put into advertisements shots that are shorter than so many parts of a second . |
| 23 | I have noticed on my Brother electronic that not all patterns look as good enlarged as they do when knitted at normal size . |
| 24 | Again this has to be set up by copying fieldnames and by again using the /Data , Query command and this time specifying as the output range an area that includes this and as many rows as you intend to use — in this case A65 … |
| 25 | You got ta guess the weight of this Christmas pudding that 's a great big Christmas pudding , and they tell you how many j erm jars of this and how many tins of that and how many pounds of sugar and and you 've got ta guess the weight . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end . |
| 27 | Between 70 and 80 per cent of psychiatric admissions are unemployed and almost all patients now being discharged from long-stay wards have no work . |
| 28 | ‘ Overheads are too high and too much money is tied up in slow-moving stock . |
| 29 | It is virtually impossible to estimate the proportion of such relations , within books as a whole , since some and perhaps much commissioning is still , in cultural terms , governed by considerations of what authors would in any case have wished to write . |
| 30 | The creation of a pattern of land ownership , through field systems , whereby some if not all land was held individually rather than collectively , was a ‘ solution ’ to the problem of how to organize the production of the means of reproduction . |