Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 2 | In Britain , mother tongue learners of English are discouraged from using repetition on the grounds that it is ‘ bad style ’ , and encouraged to use a device known as ‘ elegant repetition ’ , where synonymous or more general words or phrases are used . |
| 3 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 4 | Of this day nearer than that because more important . |
| 5 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 6 | Those that were there seemed intended as no more than second or even third-string playthings for those untouched by the recession . |
| 7 | Although brief and rather clinical , it was a highly enjoyable experience and I thought to myself , ‘ I must try this again some day ’ . |
| 8 | As Kellerman says , Eventually , faced by a less than resolute and tactically naive president , congress agreed a tax-cutting package of nearly $7 billion more than Ford had requested . |
| 9 | The HEARSAY project [ Erman et al , 1980 ] used this architecture and has proved to be highly influential ( albeit less than completely successful ) as an example of collaboration between different levels of processing . |
| 10 | He seems to have largely ceased to make these large sketches by 1814 although smaller and less interesting ones exist until 1820 . |
| 11 | In the detail of most recent polls , better-educated and wealthier Americans clearly favour more intervention in Bosnia than poorer and less well-educated respondents would accept . |
| 12 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 13 | Paralysed by fear of ‘ the progressive ’ , this stunted generation have chosen to take as their inspiration the sprightly , cramped insistence of The Monochrome Set , The Undertones , Girls at Our Best , rather than the stealth and reach of Can , Tim Buckley , Hendrix , Talking Head 's Remain in Light , PIL 's Metal Box , chosen to explore an emotional climate of suave nonchalance or at best pensive mawkishness , rather than denser and more elusive feelings ; chosen to prefer the banal clarity of ‘ communication ’ over the glare of revelation and the clouded vision of horror . |
| 14 | By situating each company in its own — albeit small and determinedly unglamorous premises — overheads were kept to a minimum , but , more important , a familial atmosphere was created among staff . |
| 15 | This is clearly a step forward for durability over the single density EVA or other Saucony models , which , although softer and more responsive that PU , can compress after heavy mileage . |
| 16 | Jimbob and Fruitbat , although successful and possibly wealthy are , I 'm afraid not what I 'd call guitarists . |
| 17 | Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age . |
| 18 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Although long-lasting and generally reliable , their musical shortcomings were obvious and none have been manufactured since 1980 , although they are still in use in a few churches . |
| 20 | Anything other than dark-eyed and boyishly slender . |
| 21 | The philosophy which they never tired of expounding to us included visions of a new world , which although sketchy and inevitably idealistic often showed an artistic and positively creative side to their existence . |
| 22 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 23 | Gore justified his demand on the grounds that the evidence accumulated thus far , albeit fragmentary and largely circumstantial , was , nevertheless , " compelling " . |
| 24 | She had also instilled into Yanto at an early age , that he was better than most and as good as anybody . |
| 25 | If unusual and very marked swelling occurs around the tonsils on one or both sides . |
| 26 | Until the middle of the war , the successes came , and spectacularly so , especially in the arena of foreign policy and military affairs , bringing many Germans who were far from Nazis into close identification with Hitler , revamping sagging morale , forcing open acclaim , prompting active participation — if shallow and largely ritualized — in support of ‘ his ’ achievements , disarming potential opponents , making objections to Nazi policy difficult to formulate . |
| 27 | Spencer Stuart have never suffered the violent fluctuations in fortune experienced by Heidrick and Struggles , and have maintained a pattern of steady — if unexciting and generally unpublicised — growth and expansion . |
| 28 | Smells , so often the reason for disinfection , are more appropriately dealt with by improving ventilation , remedial maintenance if necessary and more effective cleaning . |
| 29 | They even jokingly offered me a brother or son — I used to think this was a straightforward , if surprising and rather frivolous show of openness to newcomers . |
| 30 | Bake at 200°C ( 400°F ) Gas mark 6 for 20–25 min or until golden and just firm to the touch . |