Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watch carefully the articles coming off the assembly line and remember that that one was the first , that the second and so on . |
| 2 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 3 | Now there 's no need to learn all of the tables erm er what I will do is if you want any more lessons I 'll do you some special tables cut down so you only have to learn about half the normal and then you 'll know them all cos if you know two sixes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We first of all we used to give the food parcel every fortnight because it was half one week and half the next and now it 's a food parcel every week so they they 're guaranteed that basic sustenance you know and erm and we 'll keep up the up th up the fund raising and the money 's certainly still pouring in . |
| 6 | The Folkeskole is a unified ten-year school ( ages 7–17 ) : ‘ Just over half the 1,900 or so folkeskoler have 10 forms ’ . |
| 7 | Was this a more than merely temporary parting of the ways ? |
| 8 | Half a one or so I suppose . |
| 9 | The magazine may have a circulation of half a million or more . |
| 10 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 11 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 12 | The main road from Lulling to its nearest neighbouring Cotswold town ran along one side of Thrush Green , and a less important lane threading its way to half a dozen or so sleepy little hamlets , skirted the other side . |
| 13 | As fine a herd of slaves as you could wish — one hundred and twenty prime males and another seventy young females , half a dozen or so children and two suckling babes . |
| 14 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 15 | Apart from having to compete with the other half a dozen or so suppliers like Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Sun , USL has no real marketing experience . |
| 16 | Essential will serve and support the existing half a dozen or so dealers , VARs and system integrators that already offer BBC 's software in the UK . |
| 17 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 18 | Baby shrews are born in litters of half a dozen or so . |
| 19 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 20 | And er I told them that er I was n't p p p prepared er because they was there during the day as well , it did n't used to across to catch the school bus , and be half a dozen or so come back next door , and stop there till about twenty past three then go back , come back over as if he 's got out the bus . |
| 21 | Beneath her feet large paving slabs formed a diamond pattern , while above her head stiff-framed sun umbrellas cast their shadows over half a dozen or so people enjoying the quiet scene . |
| 22 | But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden , the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages , like hoary old beads upon its winding string , before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 23 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 24 | It was amazing how little the money was at such a famous and unbelievably well-supported club . |
| 25 | The wall panel ‘ Eruption ’ is made from fibreglass and rockwool ( a loft insulation fibre , composed of crushed glass ) ; ‘ the horror of working with such a dangerous and literally painful material was part of the piece ’ . |
| 26 | Why , then , is there such a nervous and often neurotic distaste for things which in other countries are as staple a part of the table as salt and pepper are here ? |
| 27 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 29 | Through its ruling in paragraph 49.7 of the red book , however , the Department of Health attaches a financial penalty to such a logical and mutually beneficial course of action . |
| 30 | Faced with such a quick and potentially damaging erosion of its business base , BR tackled the situation on two fronts — reduction of costs and a headon response to the coach operators with bargain fare offers . |