Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at their best in the early '80s , with the great Alison Phillips on drums , they were merely a poor man 's Fall/Three Johns/Creepers , although always reliable for a good live set . |
| 2 | Even at their best in the early '80s , with the great Alison Phillips on drums , they were merely a poor man 's Fall/Three Johns/Creepers , although always reliable for a good live set . |
| 3 | Although undoubtedly popular with a large section of the electorate , the scheme also provided his rivals within the ruling Janata Dal Party with the necessary ammunition to launch an attack on Singh 's leadership . |
| 4 | It is better to have too much information rather than too little in a democratic , consumerist society . |
| 5 | which can be compared with Dame Sirith : Yet there are details of the Interludium that would appear very strange if solely attributable to a northern English redaction of an East Midland text identifiable as the source of the Dame Sirith that we know . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , an increasing number of schools now see withdrawal as only one of a widening range of options , only to be used where the child 's individually assessed needs suggest that this is indeed the most appropriate form of provision . |
| 7 | Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community . |
| 8 | Baudrillard perceives this as the product of multi-national capitalism , but on reflection this principle is not so different from the utility of relations enhanced by the object which was stressed as socially cohesive in a non-industrial society . |
| 9 | First , there is the conversion of a sol ( a colloidal solution ) to a gel ( or an infinitely connected network of polymer chains ) , which is approximately described as formally similar to a critical phenomenon , and for which the formalism of scaling theories is applicable and secondly , the conversion of the gel to a much less compliant , rigid glass , which is governed by diffusion processes . |
| 10 | Time and again he fell in love with young men who had nothing effeminate about them and who , though temporarily involved in a bisexual life , did not share Minton 's inversion and could not on any long-term basis return his love . |
| 11 | Here the incoherence has been identified as probably resolvable by a metaphoric reading , but the respondent obviously feels it is too invisible for her to be able , as yet , to resolve it successfully . |
| 12 | He suggested a better test would be whether the material would be judged as grossly offensive to an ordinary citizen . |
| 13 | Perhaps not always as immediately dramatic as an exploding volcano , devastating earthquake nor a hurricane-force wind — but in terms of a sustained exertion of strength , it is probably the most powerful earth-borne entity known . |
| 14 | Earlier generations had already noticed the odd consequences which followed from Aristotle 's having seen the human condition as unquestionably that of an Athenian gentleman , and Kant 's having seen it as that of a Prussian bourgeois . |
| 15 | Recognition rates are as yet insufficient for a practical system , and need considerable improvement . |
| 16 | As yet unfamiliar to a British audience , they are Darren Largo from this country , and two German sculptors , Werner Haypeter and Gloria Friedman , who lives near Dijon and has been the subject of a recent exhibition at the Moderne Kunst Museum in Vienna . |
| 17 | She rejected the beef curry with rice as too much of an unknown quantity — full of apples and curry powder she suspected — and decided on the steak and kidney pie with chips . |