Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 2 | It is rotproof but then if hemp nets are properly dried after every occasion when they get damp or wet there will be no problem . |
| 3 | ‘ An electric sports car whose exciting styling , 80mph top speed and 6secs 0–60mph time prove that battery power can be exciting as well as green ’ |
| 4 | Try to assess the general state of repair — look for signs of damp as well as cracks in walls and ceilings . |
| 5 | The gifts offered no doubt included the alms of the faithful as well as bread and wine . |
| 6 | In his later years , he was closely associated with Cecil Rhodes so these records might have some historical as well as family interest . ’ |
| 7 | If it is windy as well as cold , remember particularly to wear gloves , a hat and a scarf . |
| 8 | ‘ We are all servants of the Khedive , ’ said Owen , correct in form if not in substance , ‘ British as well as Copt , Copt as well as Moslem . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Hmm , ’ Janice in a tone that suggested that she was really trying to be interested as well as sound it . |
| 10 | Henceforth ‘ industry ’ and ‘ art ’ would always be in symbiotic struggle , within popular as well as elite genres . |
| 11 | At all other times , cars are parked just outside the walls where there is some free as well as fee paying parking available . |
| 12 | Furthermore , of those explanations that incorporate biotic and microenvironmental as well as disturbance effects , the most balanced account is that of Grubb , who used the term ‘ regeneration niche ’ to cover all the factors that affect a plant during its career from fertilized egg to death . |
| 13 | When it comes to technical charts it has a combination of graph types and options that make it suitable for analysing scientific as well as business or financial data . |
| 14 | Ieuan Evans , as Scots know to their cost , can be elusive as well as opportunist and quick . |
| 15 | The struggle there in the sixteenth century became more embittered than ever because Ireland had remained Roman Catholic when England had become Protestant in the middle of the century . |
| 16 | There are fragments of kouroi from Delos as early or nearly as Nikandre 's girl , but before we go on to these a few more general remarks are in place . |
| 17 | With the present depressed economic climate , economic rather than social costs tend to be stressed and it is noticeable that even though accounting is masked in its own technical language it can have quite profound consequences in the political sphere . |
| 18 | An element was still missing from the equation of Tatyana 's suicide and Blanche was more convinced than ever that Taczek possessed it . |
| 19 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 20 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 21 | UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to . |
| 22 | I mean , when you 're actually directing a piece of work , and it does n't matter who you 're working with … they know constantly how you feel about it , and that 's sub-text as well as text , and it 's osmosis ; and a lot of it is very elliptical and oblique and subtle , and it goes on all of the time ; and you know from them how they 're taking it , how they 're working and what they think of it by exactly similar sorts of processes you get those feedbacks , and you see the work . |
| 23 | And in Britain , freight 's decline was absolute as well as relative . |
| 24 | It would incorporate a variety of forms of enterprise , including individual , family and cooperative as well as state productive units , which would be economically self-sufficient and interrelated through a market . |
| 25 | Confronted by physical hazards like this , mountain goats are cautious as well as footsure . |
| 26 | ‘ Our main thrust is to improve individual as well as team skills through work at squad sessions . ’ |
| 27 | So this habit of letting our mind wander can be very dangerous as well as time-wasting and inconvenient . |
| 28 | — The emphasis on ethics and morality , stemming from God 's own absolute moral holiness ; sin as a bar to communion ; the need for repentance and atonement ; the insistence on obedience to God 's law ( moral as well as ceremonial ) . |
| 29 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 30 | Edward 's treatment of his youngest sons was markedly lacking in generosity , and noted by contemporaries : in a political sermon delivered during the crisis of 1376 Thomas Brinton Bishop of Rochester argued that the king should place his sons above the servants , for it was not right and just that servants should become lords and lords beggars . |