Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] ['s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet while these rays tan it now seems UVAs are also the rays which are much more capable of penetrating deeply into the skin , and so cause damage , especially where children 's sensitive skin are concerned . |
| 2 | The bank defended the terms saying they are a 50 p.c. premium over Midland 's price before last month 's bid proposal , 27 p.c. above net asset value and will give an income 442 p.c. better than Midland 's reduced dividend . |
| 3 | There was little traffic , so that Lefevre 's main problem seemed likely to be that of remaining inconspicuous . |
| 4 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 5 | It discovers , in the insurance chain Safeguard — part of the MAI empire — ‘ dozens of youngsters who are paid little over £3,000 a year ’ , less than Labour 's minimum wage . |
| 6 | The door opened suddenly and Rachel 's coy face peered round it . |
| 7 | Battle and bloodshed and betrayal lay behind them , and now they met peacefully in this large house , and slept peacefully in their separate rooms , and met at weekends over the marmalade , and would continue to do so until Charles 's new appointment took him , in a couple of months , to New York . |
| 8 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 9 | The magazine 's message then was the same as it is today : that ‘ women hold up half the sky and a great deal more besides ’ and that development will at best hobble along until women 's disproportionate contribution to the work , wealth and well-being of their communities is both recognized and rewarded . |
| 10 | The sight of his old foe was bad enough but Boro 's new boy would happen to choose Hendrie 's peg on which to hang his clothes before his debut training session . |
| 11 | During the emerging Abyssinian crisis , Cabinet caution reflected a realistic assessment of the dangers to the British Empire of becoming entangled in a naval conflict with Italy in the Mediterranean , especially since Mussolini 's colonial adventure posed no immediate threat to British interests . |
| 12 | Meanwhile it was not long before Britain 's nuclear armoury began to make an impression in the United States . |
| 13 | Yet long before Richard 's formal education had even started his future was being discussed . |
| 14 | After lunch , Reeve removed Cairns with his eighth ball in Test cricket after making a belated entry into the attack in the 108th over , but only after Nottinghamshire 's new signing had made an increasingly fluent 61 . |
| 15 | Their West African near-neighbours redress the balance somewhat when Gambia 's top dance band Ifang Bondi visit the Africa Centre today . |
| 16 | David Tuffin , of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors , says the principle of self-build is still fine , so long as people 's prime concern is to make a place to live rather than save cash or make a profit . |
| 17 | Especially as Wilson 's academic career flourished , and he er , and he wrote to his father less and less . |
| 18 | BEN Jones , an elderly lawyer and nutmeg farmer , has been sworn in as Grenada 's prime minister after the death of Herbert Blaize , who had ruled the southern Caribbean spice island since the withdrawal of US invasion troops five years ago . |
| 19 | Op. 17 No. 2 ( Chopin 's nagging child rather than Schumann 's entreating child ) is surely over-pedalled , and an unspecified change of tempo in the central episode of No. 3 jars on repetition . |
| 20 | He based the restructuring on his own researches rather than Cassel 's discredited process . |
| 21 | But the tournament , held in the magnificent setting of Sun City , will be remembered for the incidents on the third day rather than Frost 's winning total of 276 . |
| 22 | Unemployment exposed more effectively than Labour 's pragmatic programme the sectional basis of the Alliance appeal , and the potentially harsh realities of ‘ efficiency and economy ’ in public expenditure . |
| 23 | It was n't just that Nottingham 's studious fullback landed seven goals from his solitary World Cup appearance , against the American Eagles at Twickenham last October . |
| 24 | But a few rough edges are welcome in these days of vacuous , glossy musicals , and numbers like Over the Hills and Far Away and Macheath 's bitter hymn about Tyburn Tree to the tune of Greensleeves are beautifully performed . |
| 25 | Only on Feb. 27 , i.e. not until Iraq 's comprehensive defeat in the land war , did the Iraqi government agree to meet these conditions . |
| 26 | Belfast itself was a mere eight miles [ 13 km ] away but Thurot 's military commander , General de Flobert , who was already at odds with his naval colleague , refused to attack it . |
| 27 | Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events . |
| 28 | An iron band clamped her wrist , her arm was forced backwards as Rourke 's hard body slammed against her , knocking the air from her lungs . |
| 29 | He argues that , just as Antwerp 's golden age depended on openness , so will its future . |
| 30 | Just as Clelia 's particular combination of virtues could never have been arrived at by fraud , so this room could never have been created out of ignorance or servile imitations . |