Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 2 | Paradoxically it was not quite so bad now the invaders had arrived . |
| 3 | This rich peasant economy ought to benefit the population as a whole because it 's increasing production and erm if it becomes more efficient then the rents wo n't have to so high the poor peo poor people benefit . |
| 4 | Obviously , if the infant were deaf , blind , without tactile sensations , and totally immobile then the prospects for cognisance would not be very rosy ; but in this case the input systems would fail to function as well , so both constructivists and nativists ( those who believe in innate mental structures ) would predict failure . |
| 5 | The Zenon Papyri have shown how in about 259 B.C. the agents of the finance minister Apollonius operated in the interests of their master : one of his estates was at Bet Anat in Galilee ( Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 1 , 1–5 ) . |
| 6 | Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap . |
| 7 | From about ten o'clock the bars and the street start to fill up . |
| 8 | However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ? |
| 9 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 10 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
| 11 | Late in the afternoon , he asked and obtained from the now bemused Prior the services of the lay brother who had accompanied them to Earlston . |
| 12 | Even quieter now the Burghgeshes have left . ’ |
| 13 | The dour , stalwart Dwarf troops were quite unlike any the Elves had faced before . |
| 14 | COOK 'S NOTE : Do not serve the dip too cold otherwise the flavours will be lost . |
| 15 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |
| 16 | LWT needs 75 per cent of its shareholders to approve the scheme , which does not seem too difficult now the plans have been moderated . |
| 17 | Because he always had long trousers that went over his boots , and they were you know , very wide so the boys would call him too long and too loose . |