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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The road yaws out in front of us , and it is clear that yet another armadillo has been chucked overboard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is clear that very many pupils find great difficulties with the concept of percentage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | More popular than ever this summer are the Town Gardens , 100 years old next year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Overheads are too high and too much money is tied up in slow-moving stock . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By 1930 , handspinning of wool had become commercially impracticable and thenceforth many weavers in Lewis imported yarn from the mainland . |
| 23 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 24 | Some day the queen 's ministers will have to stop advising her to undertake another and yet another journey through the phantasmagoria of cheering crowds and empty ceremonies which mock the memory of a power that was but is no longer . |
| 25 | It is true to say , however , that since the business has become mature , the period of readjustment has been extremely painful and very few fibre companies have made much money over the last decade . |
| 26 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 27 | There are several blank pages after this but perhaps another minute book , now lost , was started . |
| 28 | Mr. W. E. Gladstone was Prime Minister from 1880 to 1885 but then that post alternated between the Marquess of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone until the turn of the century , with a short interlude in 1894–1895 when the Earl of Rosebery was in that office . |
| 29 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 30 | In my opinion it is very doubtful whether all this disruption to so many people was justified by the experience I gained . |