Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our experience , the A-2 runs slightly small . |
| 2 | Soundwise the ME-10 kicks out some really usable sounds , and through a combo or power amp all the effects and processes ( like compressor , distortion , noise suppressor , EQ , phaser , flanger , pitch shifter , delay , stereo chorus and reverb ) can be adjusted to sound either fat and warm , thin and cutting , and to cover most points in between . |
| 3 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 5 | If anything , the metabolism of the obese becomes more sluggish when exposed to the cold . |
| 6 | The second accepts as normative American practice , with which foreign judicial authorities must not be allowed to interfere . |
| 7 | The second seems more likely since the Mexican navaids do n't have a great record for reliability . |
| 8 | The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins . |
| 9 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 10 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 11 | In a climate of radical spending cuts , the latter seems highly unlikely . |
| 12 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 13 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 14 | The latter seems more likely . |
| 15 | The latter includes both young and mature students with normal entry qualifications . |
| 16 | The former lists seven or eight subformations made up of algae , lichens and mosses in varying combinations ; the latter includes only one subformation , involving the two antarctic flowering plants , the grass Deschampsia antarctica and the pink or pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis . |
| 17 | As long as the latter enjoys only modest powers , the election of its members will not be taken with full seriousness . |
| 18 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 19 | It is believed that ozone depletion in the Arctic appears less severe than the Antarctic because air currents in the northern hemisphere produce fresh supplies of ozone-rich air into the region and allow the ozone levels to be restored . |
| 20 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 21 | The first dates back two and a half thousand years to the time when the Persians were at war with the Egyptians . |
| 22 | The first goes up left of COTW following a line of pegs and is said to hard for the grade . |
| 23 | These two represent two extremes of difficulty : the first involves only initial letters , the second involves going to the fourth or fifth letter to decide on order . |
| 24 | The first seems less likely since the pilots were experienced and known to be very competent and they had been well briefed ( by professional weather service ) on the ACA arrival and approach procedures . |
| 25 | The first covers only five weeks , for a specific product , and involves very specific sizes and dates . |
| 26 | In the first clutches nearly all the capsules appeared to contain developing embryos , in the second only 10% and in the third , none at all ( Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | Although both batteries show the correct voltage , the alkaline has far more stamina . |
| 28 | All of the foregoing assumes perfectly matching cores and windings and in practice is not easily achieved without individual and fiddling adjustment . |
| 29 | Of necessity , the foregoing provides only brief details about the range of ground equipment available . |
| 30 | If to these one adds other emerging initiatives in management INSET — the management training programme now firmly in place ( Leeds City Council 1991a ) , school-led INSET , and external management courses supported by the LEA — then the massive scale of provision for management training by the 1990s becomes very clear . |