Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quartz , on the other hand , is the most stable and crystallizes at the lowest temperature . |
| 2 | sh , he 's really sort of like , dead brainy and goes to the child-minder and goes to school and whatever ! |
| 3 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 4 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 5 | The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs . |
| 6 | My prognosis is extremely grave and follows from the diagnosis , that these are consequences of a divided society . |
| 7 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 8 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 9 | Experimentally the system is extremely simple and consists of a device rather like a geiger counter filled with an inert gas and containing the atoms of the element in question . |
| 10 | If the lamp is adjusted , by a circular knob set into the side , the purple glow can be made much brighter and plays over the mutant . |
| 11 | I think the original ending is much better and fits into the jigsaw of the novel much better than the second ending . |
| 12 | Similarly , the declining firm has a share price of only 4.75 and sells at a multiple to earnings of only 2.50 , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a share price of 47.07 and sells at a multiple to earnings of nearly 19 . |
| 13 | Thus the openness of the boundaries is highly variable and depends upon the placement and perceptions of the social actors , their knowledge and goals . |
| 14 | She 's blond , Sloaney , utterly vacuous and gossips on the phone . |
| 15 | He has elevated inscriptions to a new seriousness because the wording of his own work is not bland and ranges from the delphic to the painfully controversial . |
| 16 | Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on . |
| 17 | If it is not legible and consists of a series of private squiggles you have already jeopardised your chances of passing the examination . |
| 18 | Hot water is even more scarce and depends on the weather , or whether or not a fuse has blown . |
| 19 | The increased ionisation along the earth 's lines of magnetic force make them more conductive and leads to an increased current flow with consequent rise in magnetic flux levels . |
| 20 | This average is close to M w but is usually smaller and depends on the method used to measure D. |
| 21 | The anterior or basalar sclerites are never more than two in number , and lie just above the episternum , while the posterior or subalar sclerite is almost always single and lies behind the pleural wing process and above the epimeron . |
| 22 | The third is rather more significant and relates to the moral dimension of change . |
| 23 | In Britain an elected chamber of Parliament coexists with one that is wholly non-elected and consists of the descendants of an hereditary feudal aristocracy together with a minority composed of the beneficiaries of the patronage of successive prime ministers . |
| 24 | Effective management requires accurate timber inventories , data on productivity and predictions of future growth ; determination of the rotation age , which is the age of a stand at harvest , is also crucial and depends on the species and the time period required for optimum growth . |
| 25 | The idea of autonomous organisation of elites is similarly important and contrasts with the class-determined power analysis of Marxism . |
| 26 | Metamorphosen is comparatively prosaic and suffers from a slightly top-heavy balance which gives undue prominence to the leader . |
| 27 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 28 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
| 29 | Continuing east from Spean Bridge along Glen Spean is the A.86 , bound for Newtonmore in the Spey valley , and this , in comparison , is relatively quiet and passes through a succession of lovely scenes and interesting features . |
| 30 | The gallery canopy roof , which adjoins the house , is very old and lies below the house roof . |