Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 32 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
| 33 | A text that uses familiar everyday language is usually more accessible than one which has an archaic or literary or highly formal style . |
| 34 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 35 | As more and more survive and are kept alive beyond the utmost limit of working life , the economic or social function of the individual provides less and less of a motive or framework for his survival ; and when we ask Why ? we find ourselves thrown back upon purpose in a sense which is neither economic nor social nor even secular . |
| 36 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 37 | We have here perhaps the most delicate of all points of contact between his life and his art : hence the impression that further and very private issues are involved in , even shielded by , the assertion that ‘ a man of the 1840s could not create Bazarov ’ . |
| 38 | Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle . |
| 39 | Those that were there seemed intended as no more than second or even third-string playthings for those untouched by the recession . |
| 40 | Reuters ' managing director of Instinet UK , Bryan Cavill , agrees that bigger and more creative deals need the human touch , but he believes the lower cost , speed and transparency of automated trading will in time capture a good chunk of the market . |
| 41 | Although brief and rather clinical , it was a highly enjoyable experience and I thought to myself , ‘ I must try this again some day ’ . |
| 42 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 43 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 44 | The most positive view comes from the United States : ‘ The fact that much is being done , and that there are few areas of stagnation , makes one believe that better and more fruitful days are ahead ’ . |
| 45 | However , on the basis of the limited data available , and in the areas that have been considered it seems probable that substantial and largely unrecognised costs have been incurred . |
| 46 | These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent . |
| 47 | As Kellerman says , Eventually , faced by a less than resolute and tactically naive president , congress agreed a tax-cutting package of nearly $7 billion more than Ford had requested . |
| 48 | He seems to have largely ceased to make these large sketches by 1814 although smaller and less interesting ones exist until 1820 . |
| 49 | In the detail of most recent polls , better-educated and wealthier Americans clearly favour more intervention in Bosnia than poorer and less well-educated respondents would accept . |
| 50 | White-collar champions punch holes in widely-held theory Brian Donald strikes a lethal blow against the view that hungry and socially deprived fighters are in a class of their own |
| 51 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 52 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 53 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |
| 54 | Although among Buddhists there was a negative connotation attached to eating beef , contemporaries thought that more and more Sinhalese included it in their diets . |
| 55 | That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels . |
| 56 | We may also find that more and more top management jobs in big companies are filled by hiring people away from smaller companies . |
| 57 | Their increasing problem is that more and more lesser functions are being devolved downwards but without the resources to provide them . |
| 58 | Is it not a fact that more and more generous benefits covering many different needs are available to people in London and elsewhere ? |
| 59 | It seems that more and more well-known businesses are hiring Jasminder and colleagues of hers who work in a similar vein . |
| 60 | In particular it was felt that swifter and more decisive action on the part of the SCB in response to warnings passed by concerned solicitors and local law societies ought to be effected . |