Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts , acts , atoms and wounds , love , indifference and dislike ; also of his race and nation , the soil that fed him and his forebears , the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience , of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women , of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law , of all this and something else too , a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself , and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next , and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come . |
| 2 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 3 | His devotion to The Wedding Present is fanatical and he no longer has two separate lives , one inside the band and the other outside . |
| 4 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 5 | I miss her so much and she hardly ever writes to me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They look easy but they most certainly are not . ’ |
| 7 | The top management of the division rated one of the departments as creative and innovative and one as very problematic from that aspect . |
| 8 | Brenda Thompson talked at some length about her daughter , her friend who was poorly and her ever so humble beginnings . |
| 9 | I heard the score , I heard the score after that and I never bloody watched it . |
| 10 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 11 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 12 | But they would , we had Olar who was very good and who very rapidly was was earning his keep , and he did n't even stay here , so , you know , if you make the right appointment , it 's always dodgy that , you know . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , contradictory reactions by the authorities in various parts of East Germany continued , reinforcing the suspicion among experts in Bonn that the party leadership 's authority is crumbling and it no longer has a firm grip on the situation . |
| 14 | I committed myself to a series of disjointed actions which at the moment of decision all seemed reasonable but which immediately afterwards were as terrifying as they were irrevocable . |
| 15 | Dunlop said : ‘ I agreed to alter the gear box for Darren so it would be more suitable for Donington but I was riding in every race after the 125 and I physically just had n't the time to attend to it immediately . |
| 16 | Bob and Beryl Owen bought the Hall in 1978 and they both greatly enjoy the guest house business . |
| 17 | For Pound all dates are important but none more so than the date on the calendar above the critic 's desk . |
| 18 | four threes 'd be twelve or three fours 'd be twelve and your not actually working it out I mean |
| 19 | RECESSION has led to misery for millions but none more so than workers made Redundant and those whose homes have been Repossessed . |
| 20 | Well it 's tomato mosaic virus int it , erm but what really is significant about it is that the leaves are mottled with yellow and it quite often go fern like , they go very very thin . |
| 21 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 22 | He claimed he had n't any but he jolly well had ! |
| 23 | It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the |
| 24 | It is thus eminently possible for the homosexual sub-culture to inform and , on occasion , dominate virtually every pop style since the 1950s and none more so than in mid-1980s — but still to find itself politically disenfranchised , socially marginal , and vulnerable to attacks from the New Morality . |
| 25 | She , I mean I do n't think she 's that bad and she only ever |
| 26 | The excitement of that particular visualizing can at times be intense and I now no longer miss the arrow storms . |
| 27 | Or at least , that 's how we suppose they get away with it if the legends are true and they really still exist . |
| 28 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |