Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At four-fifteen , there was one hour of light left and still no sign of the Land Rover . |
| 2 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 3 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 4 | However , if the deal were , for instance , a 90 : 10 split and not a gross deal , the promoter would realize that for every pound he or she spends on costs , 90 pence of that pound belongs to the artist . |
| 5 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 6 | Outside , the cicadas buzzed metallically , the sea was dark blue and only the steady hum of the air-conditioning broke the silence . |
| 7 | Those that did disbanded in the late 1940s or early 1950s and only the schools continued to have Scout troops ; the 8th Exeter ( Royal Deaf School ) troop was , for example , formed in 1949 and from this troop came a Queen 's Scout , Andrew Ford , who attended the St. George 's Day Parade at Windsor Castle in 1955 before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 8 | They managed to raise three thousand and now a businessman , who does n't want to be named , has stepped in and paid the rest . |
| 9 | This slow-down can also be related to the economic hiccoughs of the later 1970s and particularly the period of deep recession in 1979–82 ( Townsend , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | The mandarin chided his younger son in rapid Annamese and immediately the giggling stopped . |
| 11 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 12 | Having won the Australian Open and now the French it means that Seles is on a Grand Slam roll , though she swiftly pointed out that Wimbledon 's grass might be her downfall . |
| 13 | So you did , right at the top one as I said two thousand four three four and then the closure of Coulson House in it . |
| 14 | While building such a database , using the kinds of structural concepts described above , is technical challenging and certainly a costly business , the greatest difficulties come when such a database is delivered online . |
| 15 | The transformation is then strictly the negative reciprocal and not the reciprocal ; otherwise , the order of 2 and 3 would be reversed , as the reciprocal of 2 ( 0.5 ) is larger than the reciprocal of 3 ( 0.33 ) . |
| 16 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 17 | There is only one Grand National and even the jockeys , maybe most of all the jockeys , are starkly aware of that . |
| 18 | Ben Jonson actually takes delight in announcing ( in Latin ) on the title page of his 1616 Workes that the book is designed for the select few and not the common crowd . |
| 19 | Or rather not , but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co-partner , so to add what wants in female sex the more to draw his love and render me more equal and perhaps a thing not undesirable sometimes superior , for inferior . |
| 20 | Likewise young females have the problem of choosing mates that will provide them with vigorous young and possibly the assistance they need to rear them . |
| 21 | I remember in eighty four erm there 'd been a general election in eighty three erm there 'd been one third elections in Harlow in , in , in erm i i i in eighty three , there was er a gen the general election and another system of election by thirds in eighty four and then the European election being told by one el elderly lady that there were too many bleeding elections and therefore she was n't gon na vote . |
| 22 | We know the answers to the first two and possibly the third as well . |
| 23 | The most common colour is solid dark red and the breed originated from local red-and-white Breton cattle ( such as the Breton Red Pied and possibly the Froment du Léon ) crossed with Durham Shorthorns from 1840 . |
| 24 | Erm I do n't think the on paragraph twenty three and consequently the suggestion that that kind of permission really are realistic at all , erm I think this government is totally obsessed with owner occupation at the expense of all kinds of housing , whether it 's permanent , rented or or anything else ! |
| 25 | Jones can expect a hefty fine and possibly a ban . |
| 26 | Below them , it 's Blackburn and Leicester with thirty , Portsmouth and Plymouth with twenty nine and really the two teams who are looking the favourites for relegation , a reminder of just two go down , Watford and Hull both have twenty five points . |
| 27 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 28 | And by improving the condition of any one of these four vital aspects of yourself , you will actually be improving the other three and thereby the quality of the life you live . |
| 29 | And we 'd got two hundred and then the dyers they were in their own union er at er at that time they 'd perhaps got er er thirty in the dye-house . |
| 30 | The latter post was now restyled , its incumbent being effectively the Speaker of the USSR Supreme Soviet and automatically the successor of the President should the latter be unable to complete his five-year term in office . |