Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , whether a horse is friendly or not has no bearing on whether a horse is a good riding horse : some horses who are very good to ride show no indication of liking people at all . |
| 2 | For weekenders , charter flights are of little use , as usually they offer only weekly or fortnightly returns . |
| 3 | With case study material print has an important role but there is always the danger that it goes astray or just does n't get read . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid that still leaves us with a couple of problems . |
| 5 | Elsewhere in Darlington the number of crimes has remained high although here has been a slight decline in some common crimes . |
| 6 | To be effective , children 's mathematical experience needs to be rather more wide ranging and demanding than presently seems to be the case . |
| 7 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 8 | Often gregarious and habitually hunts over water . |
| 9 | The smallest duck of the region , very gregarious and often flies , fast and wader-like , in compact flock . |
| 10 | The male reads it loud and clear and quickly attempts to avoid the sharp claws that are lunging towards him . |
| 11 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 12 | Eileen herself is very friendly and down-to-earth and quickly puts me at ease . |
| 13 | He is widowed and now lives alone in a ground floor fiat in a warden controlled sheltered housing scheme . |
| 14 | Quite how the Gore-tex fabric manages to be completely waterproof and yet allows body moisture to escape , I simply ca n't fathom . |
| 15 | Quite how the Gore-tex fabric manages to be completely waterproof and yet allows body moisture to escape , I simply ca n't fathom . |
| 16 | This standard ensures the unit is waterproof and so prevents an accidental , and potentially fatal , combination of water and electricity . |
| 17 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 18 | This ‘ material of the future ’ comes in white and brown and simply needs a quick wash when dirt collects . |
| 19 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 20 | The ball then waits at the bowler 's end of the pitch until the reset button switch , S3 , on pin 4 of the IC3 is operated ; taking pin 4 high and then resets the flipflop and pin 13 of IC2 goes low , enabling the clock again to run the wicket sequence from D1 to D10 . |
| 21 | The juxtaposition of high and low recurs in their next scene . |
| 22 | Charcoal and bone remains have already been dated at 20 500 years old and further remains found beneath these are now being analysed . |
| 23 | Chapman ( too old and frankly has lost what it takes ) Hodge ( we do n't need any more midfielders and he is still worth a bob or two ) Rod Wallace ( unless he bucks his ideas up ) |
| 24 | He 's like a gazelle , Lee thought , that once ran free and now finds itself all tied up in an unregulated zoo . |
| 25 | The channel used to transmit the message is usually less direct and often involves sophisticated modern technology , but the system still depends on recognised codes , custom and expectations . |
| 26 | Hot while this damp and still clings round my head , |
| 27 | Right the body surface at birth is wet and therefore cools quite rapidly so they 've got big surface area and they 're born wet and they have to be dried off . |
| 28 | He 's flirtatious and often comes round without my daughter . |
| 29 | It is empty and therefore requires the user to input data . |
| 30 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |