Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also contains certain diagnostics to deal with unexpected conditions such as too low or too high an illumination level . |
| 2 | You know where he lives in England we 're very quite a generally quite a tolerant or comparatively quite a tolerant society . |
| 3 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 4 | It lay across the most direct if not always the quickest route to Normandy ; in peace , wine and wool crossed the county , adding significantly to its wealth . |
| 5 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 6 | The most popular but not necessarily the most economic biomass conversion process is undoubtedly the production of ethyl alcohol ( ethanol , ) from sugar-cane and maize . |
| 7 | It is doubtful whether ever again the one-man universal classification schemes will make any sense ; it is too big a task . |
| 8 | The pavements were wet when in under an hour they reached Karlovy Vary , but for the moment it had stopped raining . |
| 9 | For example , neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , one of the techniques used to determine the composition of ancient ceramics , would be impossible without a computer program , since the calculations required are so complex and extensive that not even the most resilient individual armed with a pocket calculator could possibly complete them in a single lifetime . |
| 10 | If conditions change only locally and temporarily then only individual differences will result , but , Darwin concludes , if conditions change overall and permanently then a new species will eventually be formed . |
| 11 | These are activities which we would be unable to perform without a detailed knowledge of their personal circumstances , and trying to persuade them auditing is even necessary or that anything has changed since Uncle Albert 's day , is nigh on impossible and certainly not an adequate reason for an additional fee . |
| 12 | Thus we might look around and point to something red and say " This is coloured red " ; and then , perhaps , in order to forestall any tendency to mistake the word for the name of a particular shade of red , gesture towards another thing of a similar but not quite the same hue , and add " And that is red too " . |
| 13 | * Organising an essay around a pre-existing sequence ( such as historical order ) is straightforward but often not the most interesting or useful option ( see p. 54 ) . |
| 14 | Charlotte Brunsdon 's excellent collection Films for Women ( 1986 ) and E. Deirdre Pribram 's equally useful Female Spectators ( 1988 ) both emphasise the heterogeneity of female spectatorship , whilst at the same time seeing film-viewing as very much a social practice rather than something which individuals undergo , passively , in the dark . |
| 15 | He felt it was his duty to protect the girl if her claims against her father were right and just not a 1 5-year-old girl 's fantasies ’ . |
| 16 | What I have advocated is possible and not just a dream , but it would be remiss of me not to consider the nightmare scenario of colliery closures at a time when we are increasing restructuring grants by £1,000 million . |
| 17 | In some cases local authorities have even set up their own associations to deal with this , although since many housing associations are organized on a regional and increasingly even a national basis , local input is likely to diminish over time . |
| 18 | In Type II the prevalence of clinical disease is comparatively low and often only a proportion of animals in the group are affected ; mortality in such animals is very high unless early treatment with an anthelmintic effective against both arrested and developing larval stages is instituted . |
| 19 | This ageing will vary with the spirit ( higher-distillation-proof spirits need less age because they have less flavour ) , the material of the cask ( whether it is new or used and how deeply the interior is charred ) , the size of the cask ( which determines the wood-to-liquid ratio ) , and the storage conditions ( which are affected by temperature and humidity ) . |
| 20 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
| 21 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 22 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 23 | Of these three , bad environment must of course be taken seriously , and it was not suggested that environmental factors did not play an important part in health deterioration , but ‘ environment is not the only factor so operative and possibly not the most important one ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 148 ) . |
| 24 | Even small changes in how fast and how far the contraction spreads can have profound effects on form . |
| 25 | So we were caught like a lot of other people in not predicting just how fast and how far the land sales er prices would actually go down . |
| 26 | His predecessor but one , Hensley Henson , invented the magazine the Bishoprick and by the force of his writing made it a national and not only a diocesan journal . |
| 27 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 28 | Such a throat demands antibiotics on spec because it is likely but not necessarily a bacterial infection . |
| 29 | There are suggestions that the differences within the group labelled Asian are large but here again no details are provided . |
| 30 | She became the bright helpful little girl , friendly but perhaps just a little out of her depth among all these clever men . |