Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 2 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 3 | It is a thick worm , pinkish when fresh , and the cuticle is rather transparent so that the internal organs can be seen . |
| 4 | This festival promises to be the most exciting yet and full details may be obtained by telephoning Flowerfield Arts Festival Centre on ( 026583 ) 3959 . |
| 5 | He is large Minnie and loud and not altogether sensible often and I would have no other man in the house to manage him if need be . |
| 6 | ‘ This show is going to be the noisiest or the most interesting ever because the technologies are in transition , ’ Cray said . |
| 7 | Do n't you think it 's a little unrealistic now that the British are n't thinking more in concrete terms of bringing troops back home from Germany ? |
| 8 | The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission . |
| 9 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 10 | ‘ She was only upset yesterday because some silly schoolmate was telling her horror stories about visits to the dentist . |
| 11 | With the deradicalising of students in the Reagan years , Sarris 's criticisms seem less relevant , and the film is less dated now than those made at the same time or a little later that did reflect the Counter Culture , such as Alice 's Restaurant , The Strawberry Statement , Getting Straight and Zabriskie Point . |
| 12 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 13 | This feeling was so strong there that he almost expected to see Linkworth standing there , watching him . |
| 14 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 15 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 16 | It was , he decided , Emersonianism — a disease ( if that is what it is ) which is certainly no less rife now than it was when Winters made his diagnosis fifty years ago . |
| 17 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 18 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 19 | It was the first event of its kind , and only possible now that traffic was beginning to move again after the restraints of the war . |
| 20 | The ‘ full development of an ear for language ’ encompasses a wide range of related skills , understandings and competences , underlining our belief that the language and literature facets of the English curriculum should be seen as mutually supportive rather than exclusive . |
| 21 | Although passage through the gut did not improve germination rates , it must be remembered that the birds are the only frugivores large enough to deal with some of the fruits , e.g. Casuarius casuarius in Queensland taking Beilschmiedia ( Lauraceae ) fruits and passing the seeds more or less intact even though they are 6 cm diameter and weigh 52g . |
| 22 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 23 | It was even less palatable now that its strength made the taste discernible . |
| 24 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 25 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
| 26 | is highly mobile internationally as well in America . |
| 27 | This latter event is all too obviously possible now that man has produced the means , inherent in nuclear warfare and other means of mass destruction , to destroy all life . |
| 28 | The appeal of such a position is of course very considerable , and seems no less strong today than two centuries ago . |
| 29 | Her voice was so dry now that sometimes Kit fancied he heard her when he could not , in the scraping of the boughs of trees , the footfalls in the dusty earth . |
| 30 | This is so respectable today that Christians of all denominations have embraced it . |