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

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1 Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price .
2 Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe .
3 The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold .
4 The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil .
5 He was not merely an employer , entrepreneur or capitalist but socially a ‘ master ’ , a ‘ lord ’ ( Fabrikherr ) , a ‘ patron ’ or ‘ chef ‘ .
6 Single mothers and separated mothers were the next largest groups at around 20 per cent each and widows and lone fathers ( of whom two thirds are divorced or separated and almost a quarter widows ) are the smallest groups .
7 In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands .
8 Add a few other programs and a game or two and even a 100Mb drive is starting to look a little small .
9 The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common .
10 If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say .
11 There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side .
12 It 's a lot more than that and quite a different fabric .
13 From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) .
14 By way of a quite proper analogy , suppose there were a certain amazing truth , that all and only the members of one species of tree , say Turner 's Oak , could be described in a given language by sentences of a certain deep structure , or simply a rare surface-grammatical sequence : indefinite article , a curious gerund , preposition of a certain sort , and so on .
15 With the current financial structuring of the service , even in trusts , until it is generally recognised that more than just a pen and speculum are required in gynaecological outpatient clinics the value of outpatient surgery will not be realised .
16 As far as any future evaluation is concerned , if we adopt this definition of support teaching , it is obvious that more than just the traditional concerns with pupil progress in specific skills areas will need to be taken into account .
17 WE CONTINUE TO OFFER A CHOICE OF EQUIPMENT , INTERIOR STYLING AND LAYOUT SO THAT MORE THAN EVER THE OYSTER 68 OFFERS MANY OF THE BENEFITS OF A COMMISSIONED ‘ ONE OFF ’ , BUT WITH LESS RISK , EXPENSE AND WITH PREDICTABLE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE QUALITY .
18 Family planning as promoted in El Salvador has been characterized by very aggressive marketing and it is more than apparent that both the medical profession and women are subjected to unethical pressures .
19 In this particular case many more than 3,800 papers were transferable so that the value of each paper was less than .01 and therefore no transfers could be made .
20 Only 3% rate themselves as a little worse than most and virtually no one says they 're a lot worse than most .
21 Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable .
22 And now the rains had really come , so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene .
23 She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage .
24 The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him .
25 Yet , at the same time , there has not , in most cases , been a sharp break between one way of life and another but rather a process involving subtle shifts in emphasis , whereby one set of relationships — kin , friends and neighbours — take on new significances in place of or in addition to older or earlier established relationships .
26 Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others .
27 A pupil at Hummersknott School , she is studying for GCSEs and hopes to go on to do A levels in politics , economics and English and eventually a degree .
28 What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place .
29 Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions .
30 The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it .
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