Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means not taking on someone who is too highly qualified and would be easily bored or dissatisfied as much as finding someone with the ability to do the job . |
| 2 | His face bore the marks of much , not always peaceful meditation ; the look of it not bland or benevolent so much as close impregnable and hard . |
| 3 | The pitch attitude for this phase is critical ; with the nose over-high or -low too much of the float is in the water , and the considerable drag will overcome available thrust . |
| 4 | Madness , in fact , carries far greater stigma than simple criminality ; society fears people who are unpredictable or incomprehensible far more than those who are simply dishonest career villains . |
| 5 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 6 | These roads open up the rainforest to waves of settlers who move into the forests and clear even more land by fire . |
| 7 | Andrew was on his well-trodden path to captivating and conquering yet another willing lady . |
| 8 | If the Peculiar is also strong and consistent then this will increase its importance even occasionally to the point where it will override Mental and General symptoms when evaluating the case . |
| 9 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 10 | We 've tried to keep the newsletter as light hearted as possible without going into the realms of indecency , and have even printed in black and white so those of your who are colour blind wo n't feel left out . |
| 11 | They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence . |
| 12 | I tried your mobile as well but I did n't think it would work up there in the mountains and sure enough all I got was the recording saying try again later . ’ |
| 13 | It will be completed and available later this year . |
| 14 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 15 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 16 | Come Sunday you 're more withdrawn and reticent so any hassle or hitch will prove too much to cope with . |
| 17 | If the price of crude oil remains high and volatile then this will impose severe strains on economies which are already under pressure . |
| 18 | When the children clattered , yelling , down the bus steps , their mothers regarded them with a mixture of disgust and pride , as if amazed anew each afternoon that they had managed to produce children of such spectacular offensiveness . |
| 19 | Other sections of the press , for example the Sunday newspapers , had always shown less interest in politics and devoted considerably less space to the staple diet of the ideal ‘ fourth estate ’ newspaper . |
| 20 | But strong though that thrust is , it is not rescue in that sense that I want to argue for here . |
| 21 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 22 | 1–2 Enforcement Officers or General Assistants Trainees as appropriate Additionally any staff allocated to the Section on Secondment |
| 23 | Dreamily she thought of Bella , and the fact that she was Johnny 's wife , and the fact , also , that if she accepted Johnny as real then all these other people were real too and not , as she had liked to pretend , fictional characters in some book that she was reading . |
| 24 | Reptiles differ from amphibians in that , because of the development of the amniote egg , they are able to breed on land as well as live there most of the time . |