Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of pipe has also been widely used ungalvanised in gas plumbing , but modern installations use copper . |
| 2 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 3 | If we are tempted to assume so , it may be worth while looking at yet another parallel to balance the highly peculiar one of race . |
| 4 | They were exceedingly lucky as the reef was only clear enough of water at low tide for an aircraft to land on three days each month . |
| 5 | The most important of these constitutional factors , but not the only one , was the difference between the genitals of boys and girls , and the capacity , only visible later in adult life , of females to give birth to children . |
| 6 | Scissors types are extremely versatile powered by battery , propane gas or diesel . |
| 7 | East London was especially fortunate due to proximity to the largest concentration of wealth in the country , the remainder of London . |
| 8 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |
| 9 | The stars of either sex clustered in twos or threes , massing their power , or strode out alone , shining soloists , while the less attractive gathered for protection in groups outside the offices of some religious or political organization . |
| 10 | However , this technique was better accepted on poorer lands where food crops were less attractive relative to fuelwood . |
| 11 | There are a total of 14 still-sealed potion bottles and vials here , but most of them are no longer magical due to age , evaporation , or adulteration . |
| 12 | The back door of the Old Rectory , giving access to the scullery , was normally left open during daylight hours and an inner door to the house locked , but Alice Mair had knocked at the front door and made herself known . |
| 13 | A PC is no substitute for artistic ability , but with the aid of a suitable package you can achieve effects that are neither too time-consuming , costly or just plain impossible by hand . |
| 14 | The ventral arm plates are approximately rounded pentagonal in shape becoming broader than long and rectangular on distal segments and separated except occasionally for the second and third ventral plates . |
| 15 | It can be used by portfolio managers wishing to create displays for individual clients , including the percentage changes between specific dates and graphs of each price history and has already proven popular with City stockbrokers who prefer to scan graphs rather than lists of prices . |
| 16 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 17 | Feeling rather ill due to lack of visibility , we stumbled into Chalet des Pierres , just above Courchevel 1850 , and were disheartened to feel that justice could not be done to such a fantastic display of food . |
| 18 | In the former , shifting sand dunes have become more extensive due to overgrazing and injudicious cultivation causing the southern margin of the Mu-Us sandy region to extend beyond the northern boundary of the Loess plateau and the northern margin to extend into the Nobq Desert . |
| 19 | Derek Smith , the British businessman imprisoned last month after he tried to sell five and half pounds of uranium to Greece 's Nuclear Research Centre , was yesterday set free on bail , writes Helena Smith from Athens . |
| 20 | Twenth five of 51 ( 49.0% of patients experienced further variceal bleeding after randomisation to long term endoscopic sclerotherapy . |
| 21 | There is also another way in which being female has an effect ; women are more likely to be in the kind of low status , perhaps unpleasant , jobs where absenteeism is more likely irrespective of sex . |
| 22 | They are thought to have formed by partial melting of subducted oceanic crust — a process that would have been much more widespread early in Earth history than at present , owing to the higher thermal gradients prevailing at that time . |
| 23 | Green peppercorns can be used in place of the more traditional black for Steak au poivre , and also look most attractive when used sparingly with fish . |
| 24 | The model on which GCSE is based is the more traditional one of moderation of individual pupil scripts . |
| 25 | The brick tower was usually black tarred for weather protection and contained up to seven floors . |
| 26 | There 's a weekly expedition into the mountains by mountain-bike , which are always available free of charge . |
| 27 | There 's also a mountain bike tour with instructor and the bikes are always available free of charge . |
| 28 | Americans , for example , believed that Stalin was following a definite plan for the expansion of communism throughout the world — when in reality his aim may have been the much more defensive one of building barriers round the Russian homeland . |
| 29 | Explanation : That which you would like to achieve by helping the family — it could be something specific like improving Amy 's weight or it could be something more general such as changing attitudes . |
| 30 | Another problem is the more general one of liability for negligence : as we saw in Chapter 5.3 ( f ) , this is regarded as insufficient for liability for most serious offences , and yet it may be sufficient for manslaughter . |