Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite surprised to see he was wide eyed and quite awake when when he came to my flat . |
| 2 | Not so : the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades . |
| 3 | He graduated from St Andrew 's University , and to , in many ways , he was infinitely better educated and more intelligent than those who ran football around him , but nevertheless , erm , he never showed that , in erm , a sense of being superior . |
| 4 | They would stress the doctrinal fluidity within some , if not all , Protestant movements and the absence of a mechanism of censorship as centralized or as effective as that supervised by the Holy Office in Rome . |
| 5 | Corbett had never seen such evil in someone so small : black hair slicked back against the head like the ears of a wet rat ; tiny , soulless eyes and a face as twisted and as sour as a rotten apple . |
| 6 | Both financial institutions and financial markets are in the main more regulated and less developed than those within the UK financial sector . |
| 7 | Bedrooms are simply furnished and generally quiet as they face inwards away from the square , and room service is available . |
| 8 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 9 | Pumice deposits , in fact , are usually much better preserved and more informative when one sees them at points some way from the vent . |
| 10 | Lavishly produced but too new as yet to judge its consistency and long-term value . |
| 11 | This is most unlikely if the shares are listed but very probable if the company is a private one . |
| 12 | By not feeling personally hurt or professionally inadequate when matters get worse despite one 's best efforts . |
| 13 | The Arias government did not reduce public expenditure , especially on social sectors and education , as much as the opposition proposed nor as much as the IMF advocated . |
| 14 | So all the other routes were motorized and then those when we got a , a big batch of motor buses come in . |
| 15 | The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp-edged than those formed on bare rock . |
| 16 | Physical discomforts , however , were now partially offset by the fact that the legal immunities of diplomats were becoming more clearly defined and generally recognised than in the past . |
| 17 | From Muker by Ivelet and on to Gunnerside the dale is steep sided but pleasantly wooded while Gunnerside itself is on the site of an Old Norse settlement . |
| 18 | The majority were Spaniards , but there were many from South America , particularly Venezuela , and these were better dressed and better off than the other students , a fact that caused some resentment . |
| 19 | But this is a very different proposition — just about the most painful music Prokofiev ever composed and more symphonic than at least five of his symphonies . |
| 20 | Four Palestinians were killed and as many as 80 wounded in clashes with Israeli paramilitary border police on April 1 in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip . |
| 21 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 22 | I can imagine a novel that is as tricksy , as alienated and as writerly as those of , say , Alain Robbe-Grillet while also providing the staid satisfactions of pace , plot and humour with which we associate , say , Jane Austen . |