Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , the deprave-and-corrupt test carries the sense of something ‘ strikingly or importantly bad or evil ’ , to quote the words of an educationalist in The Times ( 1977 ) , who continued : |
| 2 | Ceauşescu 's decision to immortalize his rule in stone , or rather concrete and imitation marble , made clear the anachronistic , even archaic nature of his rule . |
| 3 | Add a little vanilla essence for vanilla buttercream ( about 1·25ml/¼tsp per 75g/3oz icing sugar ) , or perhaps orange or lemon juice for a citrus cream ( add 5ml/1tsp per 75g/3oz ) . |
| 4 | There are many instances to be found in decided cases where the right of a nation to legislate for waters more or less landlocked or land embraced , although beyond the three-mile limit , has been admitted . |
| 5 | Standard weepers are produced by budding and sometimes grafting , rambler types into stems a foot ( 30cm ) or more higher than bush types in order to enhance the weeping effect . |
| 6 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 7 | Some were hard , some sticky , some wobbly or as runny as water . |
| 8 | Within the modern academy , English is treated with respect , though those teaching it may feel themselves impaled on the perennial dilemma of making it appear either a soft option or inhumanely technical and jargon-ridden . |
| 9 | Clients were almost exclusively European and predominantly French and Belgian . |
| 10 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 11 | Graphically the game is top-notch , the character sprites are large and nicely detailed while movement is fluid and looks very believable . |
| 12 | By the 15th century , a steady supply of Anatolian , and perhaps Caucasian and Turkoman rugs were imported by Venetian merchants . |
| 13 | Their problem , however , is trying to reconcile national curriculum demands with their desire to offer a second modern language , three sciences and perhaps Latin and Greek . |
| 14 | Cheiranthus allionii ( Siberian wallflower ) Like ordinary wallflowers , but smaller and only yellow or orange . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , thank you , an excellent meal and only three and ninepence . ’ |
| 16 | Smaller and less variable than Desert Lark , from which readily distinguished by dark bar at tip of shorter tail . |
| 17 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 18 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 19 | Call louder and less shrill than Buzzard . |
| 20 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 21 | They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken . |
| 22 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 23 | But the public character of science is more complicated and less benign than Popper 's theory hoped ( see Chapters 7 and 8 ) . |
| 24 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 25 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 26 | Prevention is always more sensible and less costly than cure . |
| 27 | The relative decline of US capital ( chapter 10 ) was reflected in large balance of payments deficits as US goods became less and less competitive and war expenditures in Vietnam climbed . |
| 28 | Franco had allowed anti-French nationalism to flourish in Spanish Morocco in the first half of the 1950s , naïvely and carelessly confident that pressure for independence would not be a problem in the Spanish protectorate . |
| 29 | Public-sector unions threatened a general strike in March 1991 and held protests and demonstrations against police repression and in favour of increased wages and better social and labour conditions . |
| 30 | ‘ How convenient and extremely predictable that excuse is ! ’ he drawled . |