Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 2 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 3 | Although France had a railway line from the coalfield of Saint Etienne to Lyons in 1832 , it too was slow to develop a national network , partly because of governmental reluctance to embrace the new form of transportation and also because the economy remained predominantly agricultural and the road system was more efficient and extensive than Britain 's . |
| 4 | At that time , Spain was predominantly agricultural and the interruption of normal activity during the war had resulted in serious shortages of foodstuffs . |
| 5 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 6 | On this occasion , the guests were predominantly French , the music predominantly English and the dinner a sit-down at small tables of eight . |
| 7 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 8 | The sea was dead calm and the coral a glistening treasure trove of vivid gems . |
| 9 | She was extremely grateful and the course saw out the war in this fashion the camp never materialising . |
| 10 | The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale . |
| 11 | In this case the potential economies will be somewhat low and the impact of their realisation minimal . |
| 12 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 13 | This firm wrote — ‘ The land is eminently sited for a golf course as it is nicely undulating and the soil dry , and with care and attention should be capable of producing a first-class turf . ’ |
| 14 | and it was and you could n't get near it because the heat of the fire was so strong and the smell of the of the smoke was overpow you literally could n't get near it and everyone had to come away . |
| 15 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 16 | The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request . |
| 17 | ‘ ( two ) because staff levels so low and no turnover ’ … ‘ none apart from pre-licentiate programmes ’ … ‘ none at all ’ … ‘ one external course plus health and safety training ’ . |
| 18 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 19 | The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone . |
| 20 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 21 | This decision was somewhat controversial and a gloss was placed on it in Boyle v Kodak [ 1969 ] 1 WLR 661 . |
| 22 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 23 | The ground is literally parched and every blade of grass is yellow as sulphur , but independent of this the land in the interior is less rich and the fen of the country less fertile than any country I have ever traveled [ sic ] . |
| 24 | I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher . |
| 25 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 26 | People were so kind and friendly , the atmosphere was so different and the weather , well , that was unreal . |
| 27 | As Richard 's reign did not begin until 1377 , this is obviously wrong and the discrepancy is thought to have arisen when the charter was either copied incorrectly or misplaced and written from memory . |
| 28 | The " d " and the " w " of Andrew are somewhat different and a pen stroke joining the " w " of Andrew to the capital " 5 " of " Stavanger " is also different . |
| 29 | In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’ |
| 30 | They are people like Louise Fursland , a 37-year-old Down 's Syndrome sufferer with an IQ below 30 and no speech . |