Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easier than falling off a log . |
| 2 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 3 | ‘ Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply . |
| 4 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 5 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 6 | This makes control easier when looking down the microscope or when operating a computer keyboard for image analysis . |
| 7 | He did n't look like he could do anything more strenuous than spit out a grape-pip . |
| 8 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 9 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 10 | This format is appropriate when sending out a Investment Overview in response to an enquiry from another member of the ABN . |
| 11 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 12 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 13 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 14 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 16 | It 's much more fun to go into battle with someone who 's fighting fit than to beat up a victim who 's languishing after a bout of disastrous presentation . |
| 17 | In the field it is difficult to be exact when filling so the burning time of the tank will vary . |
| 18 | Years ago , in a Sky at Night television programme , I referred to these three as making up the ‘ Summer Triangle ’ , and nowadays everyone seems to use the term , though it is completely unofficial and in any case does not apply to the southern hemisphere , where June is midwinter . |
| 19 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |
| 20 | If that person dies the remaining friends are not sure whether to keep up the contact or not . |
| 21 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |
| 22 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |
| 23 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 24 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 25 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 26 | THE jump in retail sales last month of 1.6 per cent was roughly twice what the City had expected and more than made good the disappointing fall of 1 per cent in December . |
| 27 | Whether this moderate tower in St Enoch 's Square will do more than brighten up a few central shopping streets remains to be seen . |
| 28 | The losses look likely more than to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project . |
| 29 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 30 | Treasury chiefs are furious at the move that more than wipes out the benefits of the scrapping of the car sales tax . |