Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 2 | And one can follow those changes step by step through the fossil record erm including some rather nice fossils we now have which have both jaw articulations in parallel . |
| 3 | If the government gets its way and starts slapping seventeen and a half percent , twenty percent V A T on fuel , we might need some more residential places you do n't know . |
| 4 | That was the last , as I thought , of my Criterion obituary ; but because of some slightly disparaging remarks I made in it of Montgomery Belgion , a Criterion contributor , I incurred the bitter enmity of that enigmatic figure , which exploded years later when he reviewed my book on Simone Weil . |
| 5 | I mean we did n't know this , well Mark knew , but I did n't know and there was some as Germans and some as English forces it was really good and it got erm the D J got all the old records and all that really was a good night ! |
| 6 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 7 | He was one of the few really good men I have ever met . |
| 8 | Now look at some even shorter-term actions you can take to lead you to your longer-term goals . |
| 9 | → A while back I did suggest that if readers found some particularly great patches they could write in , stating the model of processor and the parameters used , and we 'd print them . |
| 10 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 11 | In the UPS spectra of some quite complex molecules we may see resolved progressions . |
| 12 | That 's right , there 's been some very good results I hear . |
| 13 | And er she , we had some very interesting insights you know into the , just from various people , what the situation was . |
| 14 | There 's some very interesting figures you see about . |
| 15 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 16 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 17 | From such relatively peaceful origins they came , by the end of the century , to undertake external war for their employers , pitting themselves against other such groups ( the Companies or routiers ) , in which might be found not only Italians and Germans , but Flemings , Spaniards , Frenchmen and , at times , a few Englishmen . |
| 18 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 19 | With these apparently vague questions it is necessary to make clear your own interpretation of what " write " means . |
| 20 | So even these more awkward ones you can still you can still have a good guess at them , just from what you know . |
| 21 | In these decidedly digital times it is unusual to hear of a new high priced pickup cartridge intended to complement the very best turntable systems available . |
| 22 | It might be added that when text is input for phonological analysis these problems are if anything magnified , and for these purely practical reasons it was possible in , for example , the Belfast project , to use computers only in a very limited way for text processing ( as opposed to computation , where various statistical packages were extensively used ) . |
| 23 | ‘ There are a dozen equally good jobs she could walk into . ’ |
| 24 | One does it , one of the things that eh I do n't know whether it does effect you at all Chris but eh , eh Chris , is , is the fact that eh these here foreign lavatories they 've got around the town , now I 'm dead against these for a number of reasons . |
| 25 | For these quite complex compositions I produced three layouts of each chart , each gradually increasing in detail until the approximate position of the elements has been decided . |
| 26 | President , Congress , the C E C does not lightly bring forward a motion which limits the right of appeal , but in these very special circumstances we feel it is both justified and necessary . |
| 27 | When she smiled that big smile with her slightly too big mouth and too many very white teeth it was as if the explosion was starting to blow the top of her head off . |
| 28 | The it 's all a blind anyway those rags he goes round in ! |
| 29 | In fact , if they had not scored those early five goals they would not have won . |
| 30 | There , I tore off my apron and sat down in one of those ridiculously soft chairs you always find in such places . |