Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hyperinflation , the price level rises so rapidly that money very quickly becomes almost worthless and people with savings in monetary form find that their money holdings cease to have any real value . |
| 2 | Elena 's promotion over the heads of more senior comrades with much greater political or administrative experience not only humiliated them , it also antagonized their wives . |
| 3 | A large studio shot showed Euturpia Kennedy at the age when I first met her , shy hope not yet driven from her eyes . |
| 4 | With more than 130 successful wines to choose from , it would be a very pleasant experience indeed just trying to find out what it is that makes a good wine a winner , observed one Winemark spokesman . |
| 5 | Narrow paved streets that are little more than alleys wind informally round a low ridge once densely packed with houses . |
| 6 | This is our economic argument : a path to personal enrichment from the fruits of economic progress more widely shared . |
| 7 | It is highly unlikely that any reader of this sentence will interpret rare in the sense of ‘ undercooked ’ ( as in a rare steak ) , or steep in the sense of ‘ unjustifiably high ’ ( as in steep charges ) , or bank in the sense of ‘ financial institution ’ , or burn in the sense of ‘ injury caused by fire ’ , or run in the sense of ‘ progress by advancing each foot alternately never having both feet on the ground simultaneously ’ , etc . |
| 8 | We believe in each case there actually occurred two things , the cause and the effect . |
| 9 | For my part I am unable to derive from that case so far reaching a proposition . |
| 10 | Say that sentence back just to confirm that she 's got that right . |
| 11 | Unemployment and low wages will mean low local buying power , infrastructure of all kinds will remain relatively undeveloped , and low rates of investment will hold back technical progress thus further disadvantaging the region . |
| 12 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 13 | The tomb consisted of an oblong brick vault with an arched roof high enough to allow a person buried in it to sit up with care when visited by the two examining angels , Munkar and Nekeer . |
| 14 | Even though it was high morning , the light was dim and artificial outside as acres of arched roof far above kept out the Canadian weather . |
| 15 | The boundaries of that part of the working classes — it might overlap with the independent craftsmen , shopkeeper and even the small entrepreneur — which was coming to be recognised as a social and political force pretty well coincided with those of the world of clubs — Mutual Aid Societies , fraternal benevolent orders ( generally with strong rituals ) , choirs , gymnastic or sports clubs , even voluntary religious organisations at one extreme , labour unions and political associations at the other . |
| 16 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 17 | Or is there some Steffi-crazy fan out there inundating the Tennis World office with letters cunningly disguised in a variety of handwriting just to confuse us ? |
| 18 | My understanding of what Mr was saying was that because it 's an alteration rather than a replacement structure plan , that guidance no longer applies . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , among the lots sold , the top price , but still only at mid-estimate , was reached by an early Salvador Dalí of 1921 , called ‘ Cadaqués ’ , and depicting the fishing village on the Costa Brava that Dalí so often visited . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he began to plead , ‘ that sleeping together automatically provides us with a kind of contract ? ’ |
| 21 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 22 | The first cry is associated with ‘ The change of Philomel , by the barbarous king/ So rudely forced ’ . |
| 23 | This finding not only reinforces the review that the engram site has been correctly located , it also strongly suggests that the engram is intracellular — it remains stored in the cell but ca n't be communicated when the neurotransmitter is inhibited . |
| 24 | Nigel BLOOM was in excellent form again on Saturday , and his treble at the Essex fixture at High Easter not surprisingly earned him the very handsome trophy presented by ‘ Pleasure Prints ’ to the meeting 's most outstanding rider . |
| 25 | Is the road to Scottish-style democracy and a Scottish parliament just plain littered with members of opposing parties linking arms and striding towards the new tomorrow ? |
| 26 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 27 | With the resources and powerful influence of the Institute behind it , this weakness no longer exists . |
| 28 | In other words , Morgan 's theories in this field once again fulfilled perfectly the rhetorical requirement for the demonstration of a totally opposite system to that of nineteenth-century Europe . |
| 29 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 30 | Not that Segesta was itself a Greek community : the Segestans were Elymiots , that is , natives , of some kind not yet understood , although the scribblings from their vases are in Greek letters , Kokalos , 1967 , pp. 233ff. and their architecture was Greek . |