Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On further investigation of many of the objects themselves , it becomes clear that they not only represent the selection of non-European artefacts by Europeans , but may also themselves be manufactured as objectifications of the relationship between different societies . |
| 2 | With its efficient sights , this became so popular that it soon almost ousted the longbow ; in fact this was the last meeting at which the silver arrow was won by an archer using a longbow . |
| 3 | Yes , its funny cos its not often we get that one , but I |
| 4 | Table — his Project of a Commonwealth ( 1915 ) created dissension in the ranks-but they soon prevailed , and the Round Table brought into currency a new term , the Commonwealth of Nations , which proved popular because it so gracefully combined the idea of imperial unity with that of national autonomy . |
| 5 | For women without previous commitment to their own career , dependent as they still often are on the normally higher earnings of men , there may be the excitement of starting their life project , married to their husband 's job and caring for him and their much hoped-for children . |
| 6 | But we must drive inflation down so low that it no longer affects the decisions made by ordinary people , businesses and government . |
| 7 | Yet the response from other corporate finance advisers looking for a vehicle in which to advertise , on a confidential basis , acquisition and disposal opportunities they are involved in was ‘ so strong that we then only had to say it was happening , do you want to be part of it ? — and most of the intermediaries did ’ . |
| 8 | The underlying structure of the international system , crucial for Neo-Realism , is offered as an explanation of behaviour so strong that it no longer matters how , or even whether , the actors understand the world about them . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 10 | Sadly , as the Master Bomber on a raid against Le Mans railway yards on 19/20 May 1944 , he collided with his Deputy and it was indeed ironic that they both actually marked the aiming point with their burning aircraft . |
| 11 | ‘ But I find it very sad that someone as high up as Mr Pound should castigate a sport he clearly knows nothing about . ’ |
| 12 | His devotion to The Wedding Present is fanatical and he no longer has two separate lives , one inside the band and the other outside . |
| 13 | ‘ They look easy but they most certainly are not . ’ |
| 14 | The top management of the division rated one of the departments as creative and innovative and one as very problematic from that aspect . |
| 15 | Brenda Thompson talked at some length about her daughter , her friend who was poorly and her ever so humble beginnings . |
| 16 | It is quite likely that you not only have no experience of regression therapy but have never even been hypnotized before . |
| 17 | The eight-month- old girl was so ill that she only just survived the flight to England . |
| 18 | Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society . |
| 19 | The success in putting behind American bars an odious dictator is all the more remarkable because it also neatly winds up the threads of the Iran-Contra scandal . |
| 20 | ARE my husband and I unusual because we no longer want to have sex ? |
| 21 | It shows in the clearness of our skin , the brightness of our eyes and the shine of our hair — assets that become more and more valuable when you no longer have the simple attraction of youth on your side . |
| 22 | Her life must have been hard for she not only produced ten children , one of whom died in infancy but also gave birth to my mother when in her forty-fifth year . |
| 23 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 24 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 25 | And the Duke made sure that they no longer gave employment in the studios to these conspirators . |
| 26 | It will make sure that everyone not only tells our customers what we do for them but also why we do it . |
| 27 | It says this is the only number you want but as read it and said well it does n't really make it clear it 's for reservations and bookings and it does n't really so we 'll just have to make sure that it damn well happens on the advert . |
| 28 | Perhaps it 's as well that we no longer have death by hanging in this country — otherwise those last-minute reprieve calls from the Home Secretary might not happen in time … |
| 29 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 30 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |