Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he was as good as they come , as far as I was concerned , because if it could be had , swiped , stolen , midnight requisition or just purely ordered from some place , when we needed it we got it . |
| 2 | The discontent with Rome had at last resulted in rebellions of slaves and of the lower classes , indirectly or even directly supported by those who at the two opposite corners of the Roman Empire were trying to defend their own independence , the Spanish tribes and Mithridates , king of Pontus . |
| 3 | But a number of feminists have suggested that women in many cultures and many situations are partly or even totally excluded from this kind of formal discourse . |
| 4 | In general , the property of the non-conformist churches is administered either directly by the denominational headquarters as managing trustees , or else legally held by this body as custodian trustee and managed by honourary officials from the local church membership . |
| 5 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 6 | In the latter two cases the objects concerned can be given spatial co-ordinates and thereby unequivocally distinguished from any other particulars of the similar sort . |
| 7 | While the above arguments suggest that the link between payment of the domestic rates and services received will lead to greater expenditure , it should be noted that domestic rates are one of the more obvious and most easily perceived of all taxes . |
| 8 | 1968 ) has become one of the best known and most widely used of all language tests . |
| 9 | There are several drugs available which are highly effective at eliminating trichomonas from both sexes , and metronidazole is both the earliest and most widely used of these . |
| 10 | It 's a curiosity , of course , and perhaps best thought of that way , for the light it throws on Mozart 's attitude to the musical past . |
| 11 | It must be emphasised that the preceding information does not constitute some new revolutionary theory , but echoes a once universal understanding of the true workings of nature embraced by the knowledgeable in every high civilisation of the past , and perhaps intuitively felt by most sensitive individuals who have not been bludgeoned by the dull instruments of Western reductionism . |
| 12 | It seems to me manifest that in a world in which sexual activity is more and more openly presented in all media , in which sex is exploited for purposes of advertisement and entertainment at every level , and in which people 's sexual proclivities are discussed in the plainest terms , children at school need to be given clear information from an early age , and a chance to have their questions answered at various stages of their school career . |
| 13 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |
| 14 | They can first be divided by the principle or characteristic of function ( into , for example , overcoats , underwear , dresses ) and then further subdivided within these functional groups by other principles or characteristics such as size , price range , material or colour . |
| 15 | The Star quoted this statement and yet still referred to both incidents as ‘ sex attacks ’ . |
| 16 | In the case of someone like Christopher Rouse it is easier , because he is well established in this country , and very well liked by many conductors . |
| 17 | This was a passage of history hardly known even to the ablest scholars or the twelfth-century Renaissance , and very imperfectly known to those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who self-consciously implanted the democratic institutions of republican Rome and ancient Athens in their own Florence . |
| 18 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 19 | The legends are screen-printed on , that 's one better than stick-on , but so badly done in some cases that it 's a toss up as to which is the worst method ! |
| 20 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |