Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alexander , unusually lively after a meal , proposed a walk , and did not know if he was glad or sorry when only Frederica accepted .
2 It is important to note that these young men were not so much-pro-Japanese or anti-British as intensely Burman .
3 i ring & i ring & have another line or three and then i think that all i want is peace that passeth understanding and the phone is a barbaric instrument of torture and do i really want more images for people to stick pins in me. i wish i could ask the muse , she would know .
4 T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move .
5 But there was a step or two and then hillside — it was over .
6 It is unclear whether Microsoft intends to support PC-NFS on one or other or both client and server versions of NT .
7 And I do n't think I can say much more than that but perhaps Simon
8 A voidable title is less than perfect and yet section 23 allows a seller with a voidable title to confer a perfect title upon an innocent purchaser .
9 In any particular society , real life suggests to us that the answers are neither black nor white but rather shades of grey .
10 it 's more than double as much people who is today going by train than before .
11 Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ .
12 If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 .
13 When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly , the Trunchbull marched on to the platform .
14 So we a number of us went away with lists of topics that we were going to write erm two hundred and fifty or so words about .
15 ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’
16 The Ferguson-developed 4wd system , which directs power between the front and rear wheels in a fixed 34/66 per cent ratio , is effective and durable but hardly state of the art .
17 He fired his shot hard and low but somehow Norman got his legs in the way and the ball flew over the bar into the sea of incredulous Middlesbrough supporters behind the Roker goal .
18 It also examines way in which its collections have influenced not only artists such as Turner , Cézanne and Giacometti but also Mondrian , Warhol and Jasper Johns .
19 The steering was both ingenious and strong and again Mr. Player was called upon , on this occasion to provide the steering wheel .
20 Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising .
21 I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine .
22 Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable .
23 McGimpsey also won the top singles clash beating pro-bound Francis Howley by 3 and 2 but then Ulster had to survive a determined Connacht comeback .
24 Under dual capacity a member firm can act as both agent and principal whereas previously jobbers and brokers were separated .
25 I think some teachers will do that for interest 's sake , and good because probably teachers are probably the best people to design the software and the programs that the machines use .
26 A hundred and seventy or so girls from all over Oxfordshire gathered at Iffley Road this afternoon to learn about scrummaging … rucking and what exactly constitutes a forward pass .
27 Being open and honest about what you are thinking , how you are feeling and why you are doing whatever you are doing is deemed to be efficient and helpful because otherwise people waste precious time and energy trying to ‘ second guess ’ what you are up to .
28 I then discuss where the boundary may lie between games animals play and those that only people can play .
29 These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers .
30 As for the West Midlands , it tried various shades of red , white , blue , and grey and even canary yellow but by the end of 1989 had still not got its formula worked out .
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