Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The least indiscretion , imposition or behaviour perceived as in any way vulgar or encroaching is enough . |
| 2 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 3 | ‘ From what I can see , Katie , this man is either very careful or has been very lucky . |
| 4 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 5 | It is highly addictive , comparably so to heroin or cocaine according to the US Surgeon General , and the health risks are long-term ones , so that starting is easier and quitting is more difficult . |
| 6 | Most of the people here are quite old and have been really through it . |
| 7 | Most of the people here are quite old and have been really through it . |
| 8 | General elections in a broad sense are three centuries old and have been fully representative of adults since 1928 . |
| 9 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 10 | This transcending of the differences of individual gifts in a corporate wholeness in which the love of God could be manifest and known was constantly enacted in the ritual of the Mass at the centre of parish worship . |
| 11 | He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . " |
| 12 | The gardens were started in 1894 and have been gradually extended since then . |
| 13 | The snarling and growling is very audible as the lions move about , looking for a way out . |
| 14 | Children are being told there are times when kicking and screaming is all right — and could even save their lives . |
| 15 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |
| 16 | The students wondered if something had offended him , but later understood that he had been very depressed and had been still further depressed by the sight of everyone 's work . |
| 17 | It was a time when the whole underground culture was at its height and I was very much involved in that and had been since early ‘ 67 . |
| 18 | She was dressed in a clumsy black skirt and a heavy grey cardigan , and , in honour of the occasion , had put on her best apron , which was white and had been exquisitely embroidered by herself . |
| 19 | With the water high up on the beach the sea is very choppy and launching is very difficult because the waves break viciously on the steep upper slopes of the beach which is frequently a shingle ridge . |
| 20 | Most roofs exceed these minimum requirements , but if they are inadequate or have been seriously affected by bad workmanship , poor quality timber , woodworm , dry rot , wet rot , and so on , the eventual result is seen in sagging roofs , displaced or split timbers , twisted and open joints — and visible movement of walls at eaves level . |
| 21 | Other experimental studies have supported the idea that frost weathering is likely to be more effective in alpine and marine arctic environments , where freeze-thaw may occur diurnally , than in polar regions where freezing and thawing are predominantly seasonal phenomena . |
| 22 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |
| 23 | Italian law provides an interesting comparison because the inquisitorial model has been found wanting and has been recently altered to include adversarial elements . |
| 24 | Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated . |
| 25 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 26 | This may again be necessary for work with learning resources , but librarians and experienced teachers will in any case want to stress the absolute necessity of previous detailed checking to see that the resources likely to be helpful and required are actually available . |
| 27 | Although how the two of us sharing a bed is going to make the twins more happy and contented is quite beyond me , ’ she muttered grimly , adding quickly as he took a threatening step towards her , ‘ OK — OK , I 'll go along with this mad charade . |
| 28 | When human life was so short and had been so cheap , what was there but the living , the greed of the moment ? |
| 29 | The low register of the flute , by which we mean the notes between and including is very rich and beautiful and has been much exploited by composers , especially those of the French school . |
| 30 | Confined to the fine arts , this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance . |