Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 2 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 3 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |
| 4 | Their origins were separate and later than those of their people . |
| 5 | ‘ At least Farrah is safe and well and for that we are grateful . |
| 6 | But if the day is fine and still and I am alone , I can hear somewhere in myself the sound of the hollow-ended drums , the clapping , the tambourine , the young voices singing , laughing . |
| 7 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 8 | The water was warm and still and so very clear that they could see the lights of the suspended arc-lamps even before they dipped below the surface of the darkened Aegean . |
| 9 | The night was dark and still and the middle road had an eerie , forbidding atmosphere . |
| 10 | O. clavigera can easily be distinguished from O. globifera by the following characters : the plates of the dorsal side are thin not as well developed as in O. globifera ; the spinelets of O. clavigera often have an enlarged rugose tip , those of O. globifera are all of one kind , low and rugose , nearly granuliform ; the apical and oral papillae of O. globifera are shorter and not as rugose as those of O. clavigera ; the oral shield is more regularly rhombic in O. globifera than O. clavigera and the tentacles scales of O. globifera are large rounded while those of O. clavigera are small and spine-like . |
| 11 | Her fingers and toes were chilling and slowly and almost imperceptibly the mist settling on her fur collar was turning a frosty white . |
| 12 | Lobbies were unheated and so if you hung your coat up wet then wet it stayed . |
| 13 | The scenery was beautiful and even though there was snow on the ground it was like a hot summers day and if I had the chance to go back I would . |
| 14 | By saving regularly , you are ‘ pound cost averaging ’ , that is buying more units when prices are low and less when they are high . |
| 15 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 16 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 17 | The close correspondence between the τ and r results suggests that the deviation from interval scale is slight and hence that the effect on results may not be radical ( Siegal , 1956 ) . |
| 18 | They come in a variety of sizes as do the internal filters , but a much wider choice of filtering mediums is available and more than one can be employed at a time . |
| 19 | Johnson is 50 , Melville is 41 and sometimes as you hear this playground talk about sex you hear echoes of a world ignorant of Aids . |
| 20 | She now placed her large square hands on the table and leant towards him , and her voice was low and hard as she said , ‘ Well , what 's the choice ? |
| 21 | Solutions of Einstein 's equation will be sought for sources that are nearly Newtonian , which means firstly that within the source the curvature and strain are small and secondly that the velocity v of the material within the source is very much less than c . |
| 22 | According to Government statistics unemployment in Darlington is 4,685 and more than 1,000 people have joined the dole queue since John Major became Prime Minister . ’ |
| 23 | The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender , Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns . |
| 24 | As a result of this ‘ myth ’ , however , the very fact of variable spelling in an Early Middle English document becomes in itself a reason for concluding that the scribe was Anglo-Norman and therefore that his spelling can be corrected by editors and ignored by historical commentators and dialectologists . |
| 25 | In criticising the text-as-product view of cohesion in text , Morgan ( 1979 ) argues that we see a link between a particular pronoun and a full noun phrase in a text because we assume the text is coherent and not because the pronoun ‘ refers back ’ to the noun phrase . |
| 26 | The radial shields are small and longer than broad . |
| 27 | We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith . |
| 28 | We must know whether this company is insolvent and therefore whether it should continue trading . ’ |
| 29 | A Both will establish separate homes , but constitutionally it has never mattered whether the Prince and Princess of Wales were happy and together or not . |