Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples at Kaupanger ( Sognfjord ) , built c. 1200 but rebuilt in 1862 , and at Fantoft , near Bergen are simpler but also of considerable interest . |
| 2 | Motor roads in Sutherland are few and far between and so are the villages they serve . |
| 3 | What I have said to Neil and Neil is honest but once or twice he 's said things and I 've said , no Neil ! |
| 4 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 5 | The carpet has obviously been in the family for years , too , and the Rembrandt is unrestored and almost completely black . |
| 6 | Hilton is aware that ultimately the lord will be best judge of what helps him most , but he suggests that every day should start with an effort to discipline his whole attention to God . |
| 7 | Raskolnikov is self-divided and also separated from the human family in a way which for Dostoevsky is both social and religious . |
| 8 | Far left : St Benoit Brie is softer and mildly less creamy with a slightly runny centre . |
| 9 | As a broad generalisation I 'd say Luba Edlina is darker and more probing with the music , making it sound more serious and perhaps less mercurial than usual . |
| 10 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 11 | Of these four men — Ken is fit and still working part-time , Brian was given a war pension because of his deafness , Pat is well , but Dave suffers dangerously low blood-pressure which his doctor ca n't explain . |
| 12 | One of this year 's debutantes , Primrose was pretty but still far too much of a schoolgirl to interest Aubrey . |
| 13 | Life without Eleanor was quieter but less fun . |
| 14 | But Meredith was witty as well as brilliant , and the special target of his wit was Rossetti , who , as he had invited two or three of his patrons , did not appreciate the jest . |
| 15 | This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists . |
| 16 | The benefit for Indonesia was political as well as economic because it implied , as Foreign Minister Ali Alatas pointed out , a recognition by Australia of the legitimacy of Indonesia 's claim to East Timor . |
| 17 | But Steven was dark and over six feet tall … |
| 18 | That 's what I did when Ann was small But then Jerry was n't interested in shopping anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ Because Tanith was premature and only weighed 5lb 4oz , none of the clothes I 'd bought her , or was given , fitted . |
| 20 | The apartment maintained by Ladram Avionics on Park Avenue was small but comfortably fitted out in contemporary style . |
| 21 | Corbett was tired and no longer cared . |
| 22 | Dana was pale and still half asleep . |
| 23 | The wooden gates to Drachenfels are solid and slightly ajar . |
| 24 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 25 | Agit-pop records about the north of Ireland are few and far between , most radical acts seemingly all too willing to swallow the ‘ official ’ British government line — that both sides are as bad as each other ( they 're mad , these Irish ) and that if a few , crazed ‘ terrorists ’ would just stop murdering people everything would be OK . |
| 26 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 27 | So Connor declared his feelings at last , and in due course he and Ruth were married and now , almost a year later , she was going to have his child . |
| 28 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 29 | With its second centenary fast approaching , the Louvre is keener than ever to put some of the lesser-known sections of its collection on public view . |
| 30 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |