Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was not merely an employer , entrepreneur or capitalist but socially a ‘ master ’ , a ‘ lord ’ ( Fabrikherr ) , a ‘ patron ’ or ‘ chef ‘ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I speak English , French and Spanish but not the others mentioned , so I have had to be very open to inferring sociolinguistic information and to being wary of my own assumptions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him . |
| 14 | New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story . |
| 15 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 19 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 22 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
| 23 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 24 | Fagan was a bleak and determined little man , tidy and forbidding as only an ex-steeplechase jockey can be . |
| 25 | The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family . |
| 26 | Once the only landfall for Britons bound for the Continent and far and away the best route today . |
| 27 | Now , the brand is the third largest in the country and far and away the biggest selling stout . |
| 28 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 29 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 30 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |