Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or deftly rabbit-punch a kidney |
| 2 | By decreeing that the order to Nazimov ( the " Nazimov Rescript " ) be copied to other governors , Alexander more or less forced the rest of the empire to follow the example of the north-west . |
| 3 | Angelica loved the valley people — some of them , anyway but at times she could find them … well , basic more or less summarised the idea . |
| 4 | Elsewhere around the country Dorset side West Hants more or less sealed the Area 8 title with an eleventh hour 2–1 away win over Team Excel — which required a final doubles rubber tie-break to separate the sides . |
| 5 | The NGC numbers have more or less superseded the lists compiled by William Herschel , a contemporary of Messier 's , though we still find some Herschel numbers ; for example the irregular galaxy M82 in Ursa Major ( too dim to be seen with binoculars ) is also known as NGC 3034 and as H.IV 79 , the 79th object in Herschel 's fourth catalogue . |
| 6 | The rise in rents between 1848 and the late 1880s more or less matched the rise in real wages during the same period . |
| 7 | The Socialist Party , which got its economics so disastrously wrong at the start of the 1980s , has now more or less caught the point . |
| 8 | It reached , through a series of canals , linked rivers and tributaries , a hinterland that more or less defined the limits of Danzig 's trading potential . |
| 9 | What ‘ noble Remedies , what serviceable Instruments ’ had they produced to equal ‘ so good a Med'cine as Stew 'd Prunes , or so necessary an Instrument as a Flye-Flap ’ ? |
| 10 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 11 | Grumman cut its capital spending to $50m last year , or under half the $105m it charged to depreciation and amortisation . |
| 12 | After a year or a month or possibly half an hour , God 's face looked in . |
| 13 | Unless the original is crisp and clear the copies will lose definition , the smaller or more delicate the typeface , the worse the problem . |
| 14 | Using enormous restraint , she stalked her prey [ or nearly half an hour , and only when she was certain did she leap from her crouching position and bring down her quarry , seizing it by the throat and suffocating it . |
| 15 | We could by measurement give a numerical specification of each of the parts of the causal circumstance-the operation of the heater , its relative location , and so on-and also such a specification of the effect . |
| 16 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 17 | Women are n't encouraged to be as confident in themselves or as single-minded the way men are . |
| 18 | But you do n't have to be as colourful a performer or as vivid a personality as these two to make an interesting subject . |
| 19 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 20 | All these men would not only write ; they would also have to read , because the Minister is not able to read all the Cabinet agenda before he gets there , or even all the agenda of the Cabinet Committees ; and if he does read the papers he reads them with an eye which often fails to understand and to spot the relevant . |
| 21 | The two styles are — or should be — a conscious response to the question of whether the brief monitoring of many or even all the children in a class is more effective in promoting learning than more sustained interactions with a smaller proportion . |
| 22 | Electronic mailing lists like this can easily be infiltrated by other supporters , but thankfully segregation is n't necessary , and so far policemen on horses have yet to be called in to arrest computer terminals ( or even Sonic the Hedgehog ) for causing an affray . |
| 23 | Usually , those who have espoused it as a goal have had little interest in the idea of equalizing all the pupils of a school or an educational system , or indeed all the people in a particular country . |
| 24 | Ten minutes passed , or maybe half an hour , it was hard to tell . |
| 25 | No doubt by 1200 all or virtually all the inhabitants of these two villages had ancestors among the twenty-five slaves of 400 years previously . |
| 26 | Now not all the bi are divisible by p or else all the ai would be , contrary |
| 27 | For the simple truth was that , however many signatures we had assembled on petitions or however extensive the lists of worthy organizations opposed to Hinkley C , the decision would now be made in the totally different context of this classically British performance . |
| 28 | New labour relations are being introduced in industries where they were technologically or politically unthinkable a decade ago . |
| 29 | However physically or mentally frail a resident is , you should help them maintain the maximum amount of independence possible . |
| 30 | Using an excessive amount or too rich a moisturiser on combination skin will congest it and lead to blocked pores and spots . |