Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At only £49.95 it 's available in grey , black or white and well worth a second look . |
| 2 | Most human religions , from tribal to world religions , have treated woman 's body , in its gender-specific sexual functions , as impure or polluted and thus to be distanced from sacred spaces and rites dominated by males . |
| 3 | This room might exist in your house or flat or only in your imagination . |
| 4 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 5 | And , despite some tensions , generally social rather than musical and mostly on tours abroad , there is no doubt that his work with the orchestra helped revolutionize the whole idea of the conductor — orchestra relationship . |
| 6 | I see the mental constructs of workers and managers , which I report , as being temporarily frozen , so to speak , rather than static and therefore with no possibility of changing . |
| 7 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 8 | When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife . |
| 9 | So sweet and strong that merely to be beside the loved object , to feel his hand on her arm , was enough . |
| 10 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 11 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 12 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 13 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 14 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 15 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |
| 16 | Major demonstrations , not only outside the council offices where the charges were being debated and fixed but also in some cases involving violence within the council chambers themselves , occurred in particular over the period March 5-12 as councils took their final decisions . |
| 17 | But these priorities have been predominantly short-term and fluctuating and often in open contradiction with the formal longer-term objectives of the railways . |
| 18 | Confronted by the imminent threat of Nazi invasion , and convinced that only by straining every nerve could Britain avoid the fate of France , millions of people came , perhaps for the first time , to perceive the nation not as something to which they were admitted by the grace of kings , but as their own authentic community . |
| 19 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 20 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 21 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 22 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 23 | Humphreys must have presented a strange sight , bloodied and bewildered and still without his shoes and socks . |
| 24 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 26 | Parental T1 cells , from which T2 cells were derived , were positive for HLA-A2.1 and -B5 and also for HLA class II molecules , whereas T2 cells did not stain for HLA-B5 and only weakly for HLA-A2.1 ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 27 | He was tall and skinny and obviously in his early twenties , and was most noticeable for his permed and bleached hair , an unusual stylistic departure for a caddie . |
| 28 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |
| 29 | The Bean family was large and noisy and much under the thumb of father Bean , Nutty 's ‘ Uncle Knacker ’ , a fierce fat man with silver hair and a red face . |
| 30 | Mr Jenkins kept the school Clean and neat and tidy But deep inside the boiler room He kept … |