Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or deftly rabbit-punch a kidney |
| 2 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 3 | As Dorothy Hardisty wrote in her journal , ‘ … such failures exist where so great an upheaval has taken place , and it was not to be expected that the Movement 's records should be free from shadows . ’ |
| 4 | By decreeing that the order to Nazimov ( the " Nazimov Rescript " ) be copied to other governors , Alexander more or less forced the rest of the empire to follow the example of the north-west . |
| 5 | Angelica loved the valley people — some of them , anyway but at times she could find them … well , basic more or less summarised the idea . |
| 6 | Elsewhere around the country Dorset side West Hants more or less sealed the Area 8 title with an eleventh hour 2–1 away win over Team Excel — which required a final doubles rubber tie-break to separate the sides . |
| 7 | The rise in rents between 1848 and the late 1880s more or less matched the rise in real wages during the same period . |
| 8 | The Socialist Party , which got its economics so disastrously wrong at the start of the 1980s , has now more or less caught the point . |
| 9 | What ‘ noble Remedies , what serviceable Instruments ’ had they produced to equal ‘ so good a Med'cine as Stew 'd Prunes , or so necessary an Instrument as a Flye-Flap ’ ? |
| 10 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 11 | The EPR paper concludes with the words While we have thus shown that the wavefunction does not provide a complete description of physical reality , we have left open the question of whether or not such a description exists . |
| 12 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 13 | Whether or not such a statement reflects an adequate level of planning and depth of thought about curriculum development depends on the quality of the deliberations of the faculties and departments , and the coordination of the various submissions made to the committee . |
| 14 | Whether or not such an expansion of judicial review is desirable is a question the reader must decide for him or her self after reading the rest of this book . |
| 15 | 3 the political content in Sri Lanka which determines whether or not such an aid scheme is pursued and how it is implemented , |
| 16 | As I was called by you on Question 16 , only to be discourteously interrupted by the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) , will you refer to the Procedure Committee whether or not such an interruption should be permitted as a means of closing a question , or whether Members should be afforded the courtesy of asking their question , after such an interruption , when Question Time ends ? |
| 17 | The proposed new system is that whether on holiday or off sick the employee is paid for what theywould have earned had the attended work ( Subject to conditions of pay relating to full/half pay sickness entitlements and unauthorised absence ) . |
| 18 | After a year or a month or possibly half an hour , God 's face looked in . |
| 19 | Unless the original is crisp and clear the copies will lose definition , the smaller or more delicate the typeface , the worse the problem . |
| 20 | Using enormous restraint , she stalked her prey [ or nearly half an hour , and only when she was certain did she leap from her crouching position and bring down her quarry , seizing it by the throat and suffocating it . |
| 21 | We could by measurement give a numerical specification of each of the parts of the causal circumstance-the operation of the heater , its relative location , and so on-and also such a specification of the effect . |
| 22 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 23 | Women are n't encouraged to be as confident in themselves or as single-minded the way men are . |
| 24 | But you do n't have to be as colourful a performer or as vivid a personality as these two to make an interesting subject . |
| 25 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 26 | All these men would not only write ; they would also have to read , because the Minister is not able to read all the Cabinet agenda before he gets there , or even all the agenda of the Cabinet Committees ; and if he does read the papers he reads them with an eye which often fails to understand and to spot the relevant . |
| 27 | Electronic mailing lists like this can easily be infiltrated by other supporters , but thankfully segregation is n't necessary , and so far policemen on horses have yet to be called in to arrest computer terminals ( or even Sonic the Hedgehog ) for causing an affray . |
| 28 | Ten minutes passed , or maybe half an hour , it was hard to tell . |
| 29 | The land revenue tax ( at first as much as a third of a peasant 's gross yearly produce ) had to be paid no matter how bad the harvest or how impoverished the family became as a result . |
| 30 | With the advances in information technology , answers to many questions could be delivered in minutes , not just on industrial issues , like how cold does it have to be before we stop work , or how heavy a load should I lift , but other questions not related to work that we have not always answered in the past . |