Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 2 | If the object of our faith were as elusive as the Loch Ness monster or as inconsequential as whether to have a third cup of afternoon tea , then doubt makes little difference . |
| 3 | This section is not as deprived of light nor as gloomy as it once was , tree felling and gale damage having left gaps through which there are glimpses of the loch below , and the road has been cured of the hazards that beset the early travellers . |
| 4 | Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease . |
| 5 | Jenny Bianco , social services chairwoman , rejected the accusation : ‘ If you get a good service while paying less than it is a much better deal and more realistic than cutting services to save money . ’ |
| 6 | Our relationship between any lottery director and G Tec as a company has always been professional and above reproach and as far as our relationship with the current director in California , we 've had instances were we 've been successful in California in gaining business while she was a director , and we 've been unsuccessful . |
| 7 | cos they used to have and a big handled my mother had sa saucepan and as big as this . |
| 8 | They were unpublished stories , filled with the plight of his affairs : an art student , bundled in the winter snow and as bright as Easter , a girl , really . |
| 9 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 10 | Across the canyon rose Illimani 's triple summit , glinting in the dawn light and far grander than in our tiny photo , while to the right the untold delights of the Cordillera Real began to unfold . |
| 11 | Astrodia tenuispina can be recognised by the skin covered disk embedded with small thin plates ; jaws with a pointed apical papilla and as many as 5 contiguous block like oral papillae , and 3 arm spines of which the ventral most is the longest . |
| 12 | Still , Thomas Brassey the railway entrepreneur , speaking with the voice of business common sense , observed of serfdom that the crop yield in servile Russia was half that in England and Saxony and less than in any other European country , and of slavery that it was ‘ obviously ’ less productive than free labour and more expensive than people thought , bearing in mind the cost of purchase or of rearing and maintenance . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 14 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 15 | At a time such as now , when vocationalism is fashionable , schools in particular but colleges also to some extent , will be characterised as not only different from industry but also inferior because of the academic or rarefied nature of much of their work . |
| 16 | It was a scrappy contest but nevertheless exciting as the news of the England disaster filtered through . |
| 17 | The body fluids of marine fish are generally more dilute than those of sea water , and would be expected to freeze at temperatures of -0.6° to -0.8°C ( Schmidt-Nielsen , 1975 ) , a degree or more higher than the freezing point of polar sea water . |
| 18 | Whether it is something as special as a wedding bouquet or as simple as a few flowers gathered on a picnic outing together , knowing where and when the flowers were picked or used adds a great deal to the meaning of the picture , and the recipient will be very touched at your thoughtful and generous gesture . |
| 19 | The news of the Seren had ignited a bright flame of hope which left her cold and utterly despondent when it shed no light at all on the mystery of her identity . |
| 20 | France had no need of prudence , only of audacity and victor and of the small dark-haired man who knew how to make glory bright as the sun and as sweet as the violet . |
| 21 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 22 | The leaves are pale green and more elongated than those of S. auriculata , extending upwards almost to overlap the preceding leaves . |
| 23 | Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility . |
| 24 | She looked across the hall and visibly relaxed as she saw a man moving swiftly down the staircase . |
| 25 | She and her parents had spent four unforgettable days seeing the Tower of London , the British Museum and as much as her father could pack in without exhausting her . |
| 26 | This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel . |
| 27 | To line the can , cut out a rectangle of paper as long as the circumference of the can and as wide as its depth . |
| 28 | Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him . |
| 29 | ‘ Jumpy as a cat and as cross as two sticks . |
| 30 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |