Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in .
2 for children 's and teenagers ' wellbeing — they have to learn rules , roles and skills in order to develop self-esteem and self-control , and these attributes are , in the end , liberating and also signs of growing maturity ;
3 There are 5 arm spines obscured by thick skin ; when denuded they appear glossy and quite rugose with large secondary points along the shaft of the spine .
4 This is a curved surface in a moving airflow which simply bends the wind , causing a pressure difference between the windward and leeward sides of the sail .
5 Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science .
6 I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination .
7 To begin with I found the playing a little mannered , although I soon became involved in the thoughtful and musicianly approach of these artists .
8 Being a Special is unpaid and therefore commitment to the job is all important .
9 Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million .
10 The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country .
11 Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms .
12 Only 5ft 8ins tall and under 10st in weight , he covers the ground quicker than anyone I have recently seen , with the exception of one he resembles , South Africa 's Jonty Rhodes .
13 After the nest is complete and around 30cm in diameter , the male nudges the female under it and egg laying begins .
14 I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer .
15 Some 30pc of them have switched to Labour and around 8pc to the Tories .
16 These apparent food sensitivities were often not persistent and only 24% of patients identified the same food on rechallenge , and 15% of patients had positive double blind challenge .
17 Any individual is at liberty to visit the offices of the local planning authority and ask to see the monthly or bimonthly list of planning applications that have been submitted .
18 As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible .
19 After retirement these expectations may no longer even be relevant , yet habits die hard and probably patterns of caring have already been established which will go on exerting an influence even though there is no longer any need .
20 So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good .
21 Water condition : Soft and slightly acid to slightly alkaline , with up to 10 DH and a pH of 6.6–7.6
22 Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture .
23 A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) .
24 The resources necessary to discharge the functions of a surveying practice may not be scarce , but these functions grow increasingly costly and therefore efficiency in the application of those resources is essential in running a successful practice .
25 They are also extremely comfortable and competitively prices with other leather boots on the market .
26 In any particular society , real life suggests to us that the answers are neither black nor white but rather shades of grey .
27 The Ferguson-developed 4wd system , which directs power between the front and rear wheels in a fixed 34/66 per cent ratio , is effective and durable but hardly state of the art .
28 This seems reasonable and about 50% of these are situated on the Tyne .
29 Maradona upset his club last weekend when he returned from an international match in Argentina a day late and just hours before the team 's first division game .
30 Critics and the viewing public were quite accustomed to seeing the nude and even courtisanes in pictures .
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