Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 2 | He did n't look like he could do anything more strenuous than spit out a grape-pip . |
| 3 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 4 | This format is appropriate when sending out a Investment Overview in response to an enquiry from another member of the ABN . |
| 5 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 6 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 8 | It 's much more fun to go into battle with someone who 's fighting fit than to beat up a victim who 's languishing after a bout of disastrous presentation . |
| 9 | If that person dies the remaining friends are not sure whether to keep up the contact or not . |
| 10 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |
| 11 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |
| 12 | It was obvious now to the World that America 's involvement had driven Kennedy into supporting a corrupt , totalitarian government because the US felt that stopping Communism was more important than setting up a democratic government in South Vietnam . |
| 13 | For him , the task was no more onerous than putting out the wheely bin on Monday . |
| 14 | To finish , I will remind you of something which Paul Eyles regrets he can not sell in his shop — although we both agree it is indispensable when setting up a tank for fish : patience . |
| 15 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 17 | The city parasites were also massing as thick as flies over a turd : smooth-skinned lads , cloak-twitchers , quacks , night wanderers , mimes and petty sorcerers . |
| 18 | ‘ Towards his household he is not threatening nor is he contemptuous of counsel when offered , nor vindictive when searching out a fault . |
| 19 | I was annoyed when came back the last time and I thought oh my goodness I hope I have n't given that woman any annoyance . |
| 20 | What does it involve other than sending out a few letters , keeping a record of what has been done , and putting some figures together at regular intervals ? |
| 21 | There 's nothing more satisfying than dressing up a table to suit the occasion . |
| 22 | It is usual when taking out a mortgage to arrange adequate insurance cover in the event of death . |
| 23 | The best solution to bristleworms is to remove them as soon as possible when setting up a tank , perhaps by quarantining living rock and corals before introduction into the display tank . |
| 24 | This can be just as traumatic and lengthy as coming off an opioid , as the following interviewee experienced : |