Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet although Jamaican music is a source of deep national pride , the rich rarely take in the messages . |
| 2 | It was a bloody long wait for the copter , I can tell you . |
| 3 | I 've been forced to pay a high enough price for the goods , for heaven 's sake . |
| 4 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 5 | Internode and internodal simply relate to the stem area between nodes and where the energy storage is minimal or absent . |
| 6 | There are still a few more places available if you are interested please send to the Office as soon as possible . |
| 7 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 8 | Bring to the boil , stirring constantly until thickened and clear then remove from the heat . |
| 9 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 10 | There has been a real enough change in the form of capitalist property but the notion that the workers ‘ control ’ industry through their pension funds or life assurance contributions is manifestly absurd . |
| 11 | Motorways are dangerous enough place at the best of times . |
| 12 | Also an early drizzly start to the day to the north of the county that seems to be easing off as well . |
| 13 | If the boat capsizes because it 's overpowered simply scramble into the high side until you end up standing on the daggerboard . |
| 14 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 15 | He writes : I was now convinced , after the stubborn to-and-fro contest for every foot of ground which had continued throughout the whole of April , that although we had more than once changed our methods of attack , a decisive success at Verdun could only be assured at the price of heavy sacrifices , out of all proportion to the desired gains . |
| 16 | okay just think of a time when you were assertive and you all everybody think of a time when you were assertive , can you think of a time , anybody ca n't think of a time when they were assertive ? |
| 17 | The vertical fins are marked with yellow and the ventral just consist of a few rays . |
| 18 | Rekdal usually come to the wardrobe an hour before the other players at Lierse . |
| 19 | There are few spatial experiences in this country to rank beside that sudden sideways shift from the masculine world of military triumphs and smiling shepherdesses on the Doric frieze of the Royal Fort 's entrance hall into the amazing feminine world of willow-pattern fantasy that swirls up at an angle in the great stairwell . |
| 20 | Gently stir the chocolate and cream until quite smooth then remove from the heat ; leave to cool slightly . |
| 21 | Conservationists tend to take a liberal view of working elephants if only because their very existence depends on there being a healthy enough stock in the wild . |
| 22 | Occasionally he sneaked off to one side and had a good long suck at a silver flask . |
| 23 | Generally a good daily rub in the bath or shower is all that is required . |
| 24 | It is centenary year for the New Zealand Rugby Football Union , good enough cause for a three-match series in a week against the Rest of the World . |
| 25 | ‘ Nor travelled to the city for the purposes of your work ? ’ he thought to enquire , a reasonable enough question in the circumstance of his thinking her a journalist , she realised . |
| 26 | But if there is a substantial enough change in the functioning of the animal we might say that its welfare is poor , even if the animal itself does not detect that its welfare is poor . |
| 27 | Haslemere had to endure some more scares , with ‘ keeper Paul Jones having to pull off one particularly good one-handed save from a header . |
| 28 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 29 | The most practical idea is to have a slight well let into the floor in front of the door and to fill it with coconut matting . |
| 30 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |