Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was change incremental or was there a sudden , sharp turning point ? |
| 2 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 3 | There was the scandal of the Westminster Council 's sale of cemeteries for 15 pence ; a report of an enterprising Yorkshireman , Edgar Dakin , who , shocked at the prices charged for memorial headstones in the conventional marble or granite , had patented his design for thermoplastic ones at a tiny fraction of the cost ; and yet another that was virtually a half-hour commercial on BBC television for the ubiquitous Hodgson Holdings . |
| 4 | He is a robust pro-European and was also the key player in securing a victory for the Prime Minister at the EC summit in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | By pointing out a flower or describing a rarity he could make a walk supremely interesting and was indeed a charming companion on any expedition in the fields . |
| 6 | The house was left empty and was often a target for vandals and Sutherland was unable to sell it . |
| 7 | He has been Chairman of Tesco since 1985 and is also a non-executive Director of National Westminster Bank . |
| 8 | They are usually developed in soft material and the relief of these and related forms may be up to 50 m ( 150 ft ) high but is usually a lot less . |
| 9 | If he were his value would be high because is also a forward . |
| 10 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 11 | The closed-loop input impedance is easily found as To find the closed-loop output impedance , a source , is considered to be connected to the input in which case Assuming for simplicity that the feedback network negligibly loads the output and so from which the closed-loop output impedance is If further as is often the case , |
| 12 | Sorry that 's just a bit of advice |
| 13 | Karajan does everything in his power to do just that , whereas Rozhdestvensky is clearly convinced that is more the Romantic offspring of a late-Eighteenth Century Classical genre . |
| 14 | He first took to powerlifting in 1979 and is now a qualified coach and referee . |
| 15 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 16 | The school was built in 1877 and is now the village hall . |
| 17 | They make perfect concentration impossible and are often the cause of breaks in work activity . |
| 18 | The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length . |
| 19 | They had all become part of campus life but the chuguo chao , the ‘ going abroad tide ’ , was probably the most noticeable and was certainly a ‘ hot topic ’ ( translated from the Chinese ‘ redian ’ ) among students . |
| 20 | Organised by season , this book marks an important step in the development of horticulture in the late 1500s and is probably the only surviving pictorial record of an important garden of that period ( est. £300–500,000 ; $520–860,000 ) . |
| 21 | Draft agreements in the UK are not usually as one-sided as is frequently the case in the United States . |
| 22 | The association with Lancashire lasted until 1986 and was always a happy one , for he was enormously popular with the fans and with his team-mates . |
| 23 | It is important for the organ to be properly covered by insurance , but making it available to students costs little and is again an investment for the future . |
| 24 | The film , funded by the BFI , tells the story of a white girl ( played by Saffron ) in a mixed-race relationship who becomes pregnant and is subsequently the victim of a brutal beating by National Front thugs . |
| 25 | The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing . |
| 26 | Colette joined Bank of Ireland in I.T.D. in 1971 and is presently an officer in M.S.U. , Head Office . |
| 27 | Threads of spider silk are between 0.01 and 2 microns thick , depending on the spider making them and the purpose for which they are intended — the gossamer sheets of Textrix employ some of the finest and are probably the only webs that could hold water . |
| 28 | Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn . |
| 29 | Apart from making a fortune out of hits like Be Quick or Be Dead the heavy metal band is cashing in on merchandising , which is a fancy marketing term for flogging T-shirts , posters , belts , and anything else the fans will buy . |
| 30 | Surprised by Joy limited by the necessarily artificial conventions of autobiography , gives an impression that the development of Lewis 's religious opinions was much more cut and dried than was really the case . |