Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 2 | There were lambs to put on the hillsides and dragonflies swooped the surface of the lake , clear and still from east to west-sou'-west . |
| 3 | Police said the assault , which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at Chesnut House in St James Drive , Bootle , had been brutal and apparently without motive . |
| 4 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 5 | The final point Mr Deputy Speaker and of course the honourable gentleman knows this is absolutely right , expenditure at an all time high , mountains at an all time high and also of course the gap between consumer prices and world prices the highest ever recorded . |
| 6 | The number of patients intolerant of the diet is disappointingly high and together with inability to sustain a prolonged remission , elemental diet treatment does have its disadvantages . |
| 7 | These shared or duplicated responsibilities are unavoidable and often in fact are desirable because the process is one of mutual monitoring which usually improves reliability . |
| 8 | ‘ In 1980 I was 15 years old and still at school , still a year away from O-levels , and drumming in my first band called Smallprint , playing at SWP benefit gigs ! |
| 9 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 10 | The site must be central , easily accessible and close to parking facilities . |
| 11 | The prison system in England and Wales , then , is creaking and close to collapse . |
| 12 | This is not to be dogmatic about answers , but to encourage pupils to reflect on them , developing increasing knowledge and understanding of how religion is expressed , and learning how to make evaluation which is both personal and yet in touch with public enquiry . |
| 13 | They were particularly impressed with the additional two and a half million for home care with the resources to go with it , together with the additional and also of course the eight hundred thousand for the er scheme . |
| 14 | The artist 's ‘ intimacy ’ with a ‘ handful ’ ( the possessive act of holding in one 's palm ) of ‘ familiar ’ sitters , fixed and therefore by implication immoveable both in the sense that they pose like good models and in the sense that they do not leave , travel or change and therefore have no narratives of their own . |
| 15 | Central government intervention into public health , sanitation and housing was cautious and piecemeal in comparison with Chadwick 's conception of a centralized supervisory network . |
| 16 | The soft violet chiffon fell to her waist , exposing creamy gold breasts to his view , high and proud above the narrow line of her ribcage , their tips rose-brown and tight with longing . |
| 17 | But this notion — that one set of activities is serious and therefore by implication another set must be non-serious — is a naive view , for it presupposes that first and second order experiences operate within the same frame and are therefore amenable to comparison . |
| 18 | A bargain makes me feel threatened and seriously in need of urgent hospital treatment : depressed and unsure of myself . |
| 19 | All could agree on the need to secure appropriate action from parliament and government , but how far this required agitation of mass support at different times and how much deference should be paid to the judgement and tactics of parliamentary abolitionists were points of tension both early and late within antislavery . |
| 20 | Induction thus provides a powerful means of co-ordinating the behaviour of adjacent groups of cells both early and late in development . |
| 21 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 22 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 23 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 24 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 25 | They 're all gauche and giggly in bed , by turns prudish and gushing , fidgety and frenetic one minute , in rigor mortis the next . |
| 26 | The tough-guy actor — filming smash hit movie Patriot Games which is released in Britain to-morrow — had to be rescued by emergency crews after a tough underwater fight scene left him exhausted and close to drowning . |
| 27 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 28 | In 1718 another older brother , Gerard , settled as a merchant in London , where Joshua joined him in 1722 , first as assistant and later as partner . |
| 29 | Later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually of marble . |
| 30 | When this logic was applied to the lower ranks of the armed forces it also carried the gloss that these men were less capable of intellectual control , being more animal and closer to nature . |