Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 4 | The fifty or so miles unravel slowly , and I ca n't help feeling , pointlessly . |
| 5 | In St Louis , we were booked in a 11,000 seater hall and I think 180 or so people came . |
| 6 | are you able to help this jury with this simple matter , to your knowledge , on this development , on a hundred and thirty eight or so apartments did you see the second addition of this brochure and the third ? , did you personally ever see it ? |
| 7 | Most of Iraq 's 800 or so aircraft have spent the war on or under the ground in well-protected shelters and hiding places . |
| 8 | It was in that position that Alf was an important member of Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , when we climbed out of Division 4 in 1960–61 and , with his Cup-tie appearances , be comes one the group of only forty or so men to have played over 200 games for our club . |
| 9 | It will certainly do nothing to resolve the philosophical doubts of those who regard art and design as essentially different or yet others working in the art and design faculties of polytechnics who fear that the technological and scientific ambiance of the institution is inimical to the needs and style of high-level art education . |
| 10 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 11 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 12 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 13 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 14 | The three travellers looked at one another and then Floy said , ‘ Sit down . ’ |
| 15 | Floy and Snodgrass stared at one another and then Floy said , ‘ We 'll have to follow them . ’ |
| 16 | McGimpsey also won the top singles clash beating pro-bound Francis Howley by 3 and 2 but then Ulster had to survive a determined Connacht comeback . |
| 17 | the Compensation Fund is a ‘ solid plank ’ of the professions ' reputation ; it is absurd that only solicitors offer the public unlimited indemnity ; |
| 18 | My heart grew sick and I could n't eat , a phenomenon so strange that even Father noticed and asked what was wrong . |
| 19 | Nature , however , proved more subtle than even Maxwell had imagined . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Again the rate of RNA replication dropped , but after another 10 or so test-tube transfers a strain of RNA had evolved that was immune even to the higher concentration of poison . |
| 22 | A survey of the 2,000 or so companies quoted on The Stock Exchange , it showed that less than 5% of executive directors were women ( 428 ) , and that the future did not look much better — when the numbers of men and women in management and on the board were added together , the ratio was one woman to every 35 men . |
| 23 | Environmental determinists are also numerous among the social commentators of the period : ‘ Wretched houses make wretched homes ; and while immoral or slatternly habits convert fine dwellings into styes , it is almost as true that dirty and unhealthy habitations transfer a taint to the character and habits of the persons who occupy them . ’ |
| 24 | Certainly nothing happened in my personal experience in the last six or so months to make me change my mind about Labour unelectability . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , river dolphins and catfish inhabit the same river , and between 1950 and 1980 , about half the 100 or so baiji found dead had died from swallowing or being snagged by fish hooks . |
| 26 | For example , a senior drugs regulator said that the recent scare over human insulin had led to 100 or so patients stopping their drugs , with predictably disastrous results . |
| 27 | The French industry easily led the field with a huge panorama of most of the 100 or so films made during the year , ranging from the work of new directors ( such as Eric Rochant 's ‘ Aux yeux du monde ’ , a taut thriller about the kidnapping of a school bus ) to those little comedies and histoires d'amour , so beloved by the French , which never seem to get exported . |
| 28 | Many were so appalling that even Himmler had been known to walk out of the showings , sick to the stomach . |
| 29 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 30 | Travel within the rainforest is not easy and so WWF had asked the team to repair and make " river-worthy " a seven metre assault craft which now provides transport via the forest 's larger rivers — the most efficient forest pathways . |