Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's the most professional boat owner I 've ever worked for . ’ |
2 | Sir John Dacourt , the ambassador , was squat and florid , with frizzed white hair , light blue eyes , and the most luxuriant curling moustache I have ever clapped eyes on . |
3 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
4 | ‘ If there any doubts … do n't take it ’ advises the book , easy to say , less easy to obey for someone in pain or distress , not so easy w hen it is considered that even too much coffee , cola drink or chocolate will register a positive result . |
5 | And IBM Corp is finally ready to take the wraps off its highly parallel processing system it is developing . |
6 | The ferry was the most unprepossessing sea vessel I 've ever seen . |
7 | We both know what an outrageously male chauvinist pig you are , Ross — but , in case you have n't guessed , I find it very insulting that you should insinuate that I have somehow slept my way up to my present position ! ’ |
8 | Although the racking system is normally open type construction it is possible to clad the perimeter of the racking and its top to form a totally enclosed box within a conventional building . |
9 | The important point for our purposes is that until some assumption is made about the generally expected price level we can not rule out any response of the economy to the upward shift in the aggregate demand curve . |
10 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
11 | It was not so different from the modern , much more refined auto-landing system we take for granted today . |
12 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
13 | In another area he did actually get a market research firm 's fieldworkers to go round all the houses asking for young men and women in the age group , and while this appeared to give a reasonably accurate sample frame it was also very expensive . |
14 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
15 | With a carefully selected equity portfolio you can get 10 per cent off a room at selected Hilton Hotels ( Ladbroke Group ) , a cut price ‘ exclusive ’ two-week African safari , 15 per cent off two transatlantic voyages on the QE2 ( Trafalgar House ) , and a free centre court ticket at Wimbledon ( All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet ) for every day tennis is played . |
16 | She says : ‘ It 's the most dreadful exercise video I have seen in a while . |
17 | During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’ |
18 | If you do have a fairly sophisticated information service it is easy to think that you have all the answers to hand , but this may not be the case . |
19 | After another two-hour session on the now freezing parade ground they were released for supper . |
20 | Old fashioned , old fashioned handling , they were designed twenty , thirty years ago , there are much better cars , if you want a really decent sports car you should buy a , a Nissan |
21 | through drink he could of been a really brilliant football player he could of made a lot of money and |
22 | The latter 's called Imbuya , it comes from Brazil and it combines the rich orangey-brown colour of Brazilian rosewood with the kind of wildly complex grain pattern you sometimes see in American walnut . |
23 | Once in , and JustText is a perfectly reasonable text editor it its own right , the material can be ‘ marked up ’ for the various fonts and styles required . |
24 | To make a really successful card design it to complement your father 's hobbies . |
25 | If you have a really bad cellulite problem I suggest you follow the diet and try and take some sensible form of daily exercise even if it is only walking the dog for a couple of miles . |
26 | There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen . |
27 | ‘ It was the most ridiculous shot selection I have probably ever made , ’ he admitted . |
28 | Well Irish Water Spaniel it 's a sort of medium medium to large size dog . |
29 | With well selected video material you could make this point by starting with a " sound only " presentation , as Video Plan 4 in Chapter 4 does . |
30 | Adams ( 1971 ) found no significant asymmetry in a dot enumeration task but it is possible that the relatively long exposure duration he employed was sufficient to eliminate any potential difference between the visual fields . |