Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the future , Suffolk people will reflect on this decade and they will find it strange that at a time when environmental issues were more prevalent than ever both county and borough councils made such an effort to be seen to be environmentally friendly , that so much development took place on the green belt of Ipswich . |
| 2 | As the original trophy , 113 years old and now so wafer thin it can be easily dented , was taken away to be placed in the Ulster Museum , nostalgic thoughts flashed through the mind of many great Cup finals , of glory and tragedy , jubilation and disappointment . |
| 3 | The third part is perhaps something that erm , we find a little more difficult , I do found that er number two , number three and number four if you were n't careful blends very much into one another and actually then part three as far as I 'm concerned actually putting across the benefits is really the main part I think and that really is putting into everyday English what we know as professionals as in technical terms , cos if you go and talk to somebody whatever it is , they have n't got a clue we have , we talk about it all the time and I think the biggest criticism of the insurance industry as a whole is the fact that you do n't talk to people in English and that 's why it 's got such a foot in the door and I think the third part for me really is the most important part of the sales process , relating our cock-ups in English , the benefits the client . |
| 4 | The traditional system suppliers such as VBS with their Beacon system and Genigraphics were few and far between while Matrix , now part of Agfa , was the dominant supplier of medium-priced film recorders . |
| 5 | But that other ‘ landscape ’ , quieter perhaps , but like an underground stream , unconscious and very persistent , never failed to obtrude itself on him : ‘ It is strange that even now prayer is my natural language , ’ he said , in ‘ Lines From My Grandfather 's Journal ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , p10 ) which powerfully reflect his own self-questionings ; the ‘ tyranny ’ was asserting itself . |
| 6 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 7 | Does he agree that the use of national insurance contributions as an underhand tax is fundamentally dishonest and that early retirers , widows and those on limited incomes would be hurt by the imposition of a savings tax as proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 8 | There 's also this thing which is called agricultural fundamentalism right and the most developing c , most developed countries , most of the population live in urban areas and the they see erm er rural areas as being sort of the backbone of society , sort of the salt of the earth type of element in society that although they do n't participate in themselves would like to maintain right and so even consumers may well be would not want see erm agriculture obliterated from er , from their country right because they like the products that erm that agriculture produces and they think that you can of erm destroying of the agricultural industry would , would pose an unacceptable burden on the fabric of rural society and as a result are quite happy to see protectionism er fo , for that industry . |
| 9 | After the sale , the dealer Bruno Meissener said : ‘ The estimate was too high , and collectors want Rembrandts to be later , larger and more obviously Rembrandt . |
| 10 | And the Cid should have gone with him , but he fell sick and perforce therefore abode at home . |
| 11 | However , success stories in themselves are not unusual and most certainly part of any teaching environment . |
| 12 | Halpern ( 1986 ) derides their apparent conviction that ‘ it is frightening and perhaps even unAmerican to consider the possibility that even a small part of the sex differences in spatial abilities ( or any cognitive ability ) , may be attributed to biological factors ’ ( 1986 : 1014 ) . |
| 13 | Speyside was an area where the units were large and almost exclusively family farms . |
| 14 | The Romans made only tentative essays into building such designs but in the eastern Mediterranean and even further east — in Persia , Iran , Armenia , Syria — Christianity had taken root earlier than in Rome and churches were built of this type from the second century A.D. onwards . |
| 15 | About 20% of care is consistently shown to be inappropriate and only about 15% of medical interventions are based on solid scientific evidence . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps we are n't very subtle but even then people miss the point . ’ |
| 17 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 18 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 19 | I talked to you and you were grand , and you said Mother would be grand and then suddenly Sean manages to spoil everything . ’ |
| 20 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggests that more flexibility should ‘ allow staff to be used considerably more effectively than under the present system , where research is considered the prime and often only road to reward and promotion and hence staff expect that the balance of their tasks should be broadly the same for all . ’ |
| 21 | OPEC oil prices peaked at $36 in January 1981 and once again experts predicted a permanent petro-dollar surplus . |
| 22 | But he himself did not sound particularly happy and once again Hazel felt oddly perplexed . |
| 23 | On the other side of the knife-edge the critical frequency of Always Defect is exceeded , and selection will favour more and more Always Defects . |
| 24 | Er medical and then sometimes people with a lot of money if they needed a not a particularly dangerous operation they 'd have it done in their own homes . |
| 25 | Though the majority of youth continued outwardly to behave in a conformist manner , the growth in numerous big cities of deliberately non-conformist and sometimes actively oppositionist youth groups delighting in physical as well as verbal attacks on Hitler Youth brigades , wearing ‘ western ’ clothes , aping English mannerisms , and listening to jazz , showed that Nazism was losing ground among what had been its strongest area of support . |
| 26 | Wolff begins with the assurance that children are not rational and then immediately back-pedals to say that actually they are , partially at least . |
| 27 | Potential difference of amplitude appearing across the entire secondary of the source transformer T 1 is connected through the unknown impedance Z 1 to the whole , one-tenth and so on tappings of the upper primary of the detector transformer T 2 through a range switch . |
| 28 | A major new library opened in 1973 and soon afterwards Nottingham was proud to open the first Medical School to be established in Britain this century . |
| 29 | Er Mr first and then then Mr . |
| 30 | Having found their way into museums and institutions around the world they were usually identified as Inca or most often Chimó . |