Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 28% live in countries where it is illegal or legal only when the woman 's life is threatened . |
| 2 | However , recent legislation suggests that such a simplistic approach by the librarian is no longer tenable or advisable even when the publication is neither obscene nor indecent . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 4 | The seats are comfortable and supportive too and the driving position is excellent . |
| 5 | Overcoming this Catch 22 has cost modern fusion research billions of dollars so far , using arrays of magnets as big as houses in order to contain the fuel at temperatures ten times hotter even than those in the centre of the Sun , and making it dense enough and stable enough that a self-sustaining reaction can occur . |
| 6 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 7 | The atmosphere filters out most of the gamma and X-radiation so that the amount reaching ground level from space is virtually zero , and astronomers who seek to measure these short-wave radiations must send their telescopes into space . |
| 8 | The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted . |
| 9 | It was one of those crisp , clear autumnal days with the leaves vivid and squishy underfoot and the sky above one perfect , if chilling , blue . |
| 10 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 11 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
| 12 | It is an organizational and moral rather than a legal construct . |
| 13 | Solid and supportive , he is direct and straightforward rather than an organisational game player . |
| 14 | ‘ It can become over-bureaucratic and ritualistic so that the words and the jargon take over . |
| 15 | The immunoglobulin superfamily is large and diverse probably because the basic structure of the immunoglobulin domain is versatile and readily adaptable to different binding functions . |
| 16 | Living without Felipe was lonely , hard , and the city did really seem to be grey and cold even though the days were warm and long . |
| 17 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 18 | Written by , directed by and starring the young black American film-maker Charles Lane , Sidewalk Stories is not only almost completely without dialogue , it 's also shot in crisp black and white rather than the now-regulation colour . |
| 19 | The colour of the team 's socks , until 1927 black with thin red and white stripes , was altered to a more distinctive blue and white so that the players could recognize their colleagues more easily without looking up . |
| 20 | It appeared exactly the same — its walls hung with innumerable paintings , prints and photographs , their frames dull with years , their glass wavy and opaque so that the subjects had lost whatever initial impact they had and were now just pictures collecting dust . |
| 21 | He believes that literary study has a cultural and humane rather than an intellectual value ; and the implication of his recent work is that there are other ways of attaining cultural value . |
| 22 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 23 | A piece of wall that is clean and firm and decent even when the paper has been stripped away from it ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The portrayal of women in the media is negative and deleterious both as the traditional wife-mother and gracious-lady portraits that limit the woman in growth and leadership , and the siren-victim-criminal image that exploits womanhood . ’ |
| 25 | The mountains swing away to the east , running into Venezuela , but the volcanic chain after a short gap in the dreary and fever-ridden jungles of the Isthmus of Panama , reappears in full vigour in Costa Rica , and extends throughout the Central American republics of Nicaragua , El Salvador and Guatemala , which are by reputation as unstable and explosive politically as the many volcanoes that they contain . |
| 26 | They lubricate it with a saliva that is sticky so that the ants adhere to it , and alkaline so that the formic acid of their stings is neutralised . |
| 27 | Clara , grown careless and ruthless now that the struggle was over , did not fail to point out that the school would have helped upon request . |
| 28 | Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover . |
| 29 | A starfish can regrow all its arms if necessary even if the mutilation is severe . |
| 30 | Social workers defined their main purpose when investigating referrals of alleged sexual abuse as the evaluation of child care risk ; judgement about children 's well-being was justifiable and necessary even if the reasons which motivated referral were unproven or no longer relevant . |