Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It matters little whether there is much evidence of individualism creating achievement or loss so long as it is believed that it does . |
| 2 | They were all very sharp and attentive , prepared to go back over scenes or lines as often as was required , patient when Charles lost the line , encouraging when he got a flow of dialogue working . |
| 3 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 4 | Write down the registration number and description of the car and driver or passenger as soon as possible before you forget . |
| 5 | It is irrelevant to the Purchaser whether or not the Vendors know the warranties are right or wrong so long as they accept the risk . |
| 6 | By mixing metals it is possible to make alloys which are tougher , more ductile , have a different colour , a lower melting point , or flow more easily when molten than the individual component metals . |
| 7 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 8 | Proposing ideas unfortunately provokes difficulties or objections more often than it wins support . |
| 9 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 10 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 11 | This desire for early winter training required planning and preparation as early as September and a number of Group Organisers and Training Advisers had been slow to appreciate this . |
| 12 | ‘ The most correct thing to do is to hold elections for both president and deputies as soon as possible , so that people can trust somebody , ’ Mr Khasbulatov said . |
| 13 | The course seeks out flaws in temperament and technique sooner rather than later . |
| 14 | To be successful the remedy should match the totality of the patient 's symptoms and signs as closely as possible — as demonstrated in the three separate cases of influenza . |
| 15 | I would feel very happy that there was an under , under provision if I , if I refer to the agenda item twelve , where it says if I read it right that there is twenty three point six percent industrial floor space unoccupied at present and I would have thought it was crazy to start er erm coming up and building even more cos it will just put that figure up will it not ? |
| 16 | ‘ And I 'm eighty-eight , and I object to draughts and crowds as strongly as ever . |
| 17 | Where the reading skill required is that of interpreting such things as labels and road signs , they should pursue the normal targets and programmes as far as possible for their own safety , though they may need help where practicable to interpret these things through other than ordinary visual means . |
| 18 | ‘ A thin man with fierce blazing eyes behind thick glasses , ’ Rebecca West called him in 1945 , ‘ a tiny fuzz of black hair fancifully arranged on his prematurely bald head , and wrists and ankles as straight as lead piping in their emaciation . ’ |
| 19 | I believe that we should not be nationalistic about animal welfare ; we should care for animals in France and Germany as well as for those in Britain . |
| 20 | Across Europe , from the war-devastated areas of France and Germany as far as Greece and Italy , from Austria to Hungary , Poland , and Romania , Bischof carried his camera equipment and bundles of warm clothing for those in need , infinitely caring , attentive to all victims , but above all to children . |
| 21 | The Criminal Registrar 's Report for 1901 documents a trend for declining levels of crime and violence over more than two decades . |
| 22 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 23 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 24 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 25 | Slot the new post sections into the metalwork and hammer fully home if required . |
| 26 | Shiona scowled into his face with its arrogant high cheekbones , self-satisfied mouth and eyes as hard as sapphires . |
| 27 | Because Janssen sell products in quantities for research and industry as well as for laboratory use , they offer packages in many different sizes … often as suggested by their customers . |
| 28 | If only Messrs Cook could guarantee a benefit to mind and manners as easily as they can guarantee a comfortable journey ! |
| 29 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |
| 30 | She returns his toothless smile and waves as graciously as the Queen . |