Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | E. M. Byrde , the Police Magistrate at Anuradhapura in 1896 , noted that ‘ cattle stealers do not go about , as witnesses would wish one to believe , removing stolen cattle in broad daylight or along frequented high roads by moonlight . ’ |
| 2 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 3 | As Aldous Huxley more or less said 40 years ago in The Doors of Perception , as he turned away from the exploding Red Hot Peppers : is n't alcohol a bloody awful drug ? |
| 4 | Continue writing this scenario for two or so double-spaced typewritten pages . |
| 5 | ‘ Now if he was dyslexic , or only had one leg . |
| 6 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 7 | THE RALLY started on Sunday , 2 February at 10 am and the freezing cold morning saw many last-minute checks by various crews on all those things they had forgotten or already checked three times . |
| 8 | There is one large , wide , blunt or slightly pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 4–5 oral papillae , which are pointed with the distalmost one being the largest . |
| 9 | Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales . |
| 10 | There is one long pointed apical papilla flanked by 7–10 rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae . |
| 11 | There is one large pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 4 rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which merge with tentacle scales associated with the nearly superficial second tentacle pore . |
| 12 | The tentacle pores are quite large each is armed with a rounded or slightly pointed scale-like tentacle scale . |
| 13 | All deputies were either party members or carefully vetted non-party people . |
| 14 | Even though the defendant knew the names and addresses of all customers , the quality of contact was not of the degree required in order to establish that he was ever regarded as " being the business " or even had any influence over the customers . |
| 15 | Anna stayed in the paddock , and her only contact with people was when she was chased into a yard and chute for worming and branding , or else had two legs at a time strapped up to facilitate an occasional trimming of her hooves . |
| 16 | Acts done by a partner outside the normal course of the firm 's business will generally not bind the firm unless his co-partners have expressly authorised or subsequently ratified those acts . |
| 17 | Occasionally in the early months his subordinates deliberately or accidentally transgressed these rules and promptly had their knuckles rapped . |
| 18 | There 's an example in my book , with one that only lasted six weeks , for example , which is astonishing by modern standards . |
| 19 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 20 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |
| 21 | Remember the PLO operation that suddenly appeared next door in Larnaca ? |
| 22 | When he was with close friends , he abandoned that somewhat starched public demeanour . |
| 23 | Next to the door was a small window that nevertheless boasted sixteen panes . |
| 24 | The aspirin bottle was empty , as was the silver-papered , singly wrapped , Panadol square that usually held twelve tablets , but in which she knew there had been only three , for she herself had taken two that afternoon . |
| 25 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 26 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | Equally dramatic has been the emergence of a new venue , the former Gas Works , converted into a theatre almost at the drop of a hat , a transformation that clearly shook last night 's capacity audience at the first performance in the Klondyke Building . |
| 28 | Manager Ian Porterfield praised Townsend 's performance in a game that also saw four bookings . |
| 29 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 30 | Intermediate values are seen for tawny owls and great grey owls ( 50–60 per cent ) , and high values for the owls that also showed greatest damage to the maxilla , the short-eared owl , spotted eagle owl and European eagle owl ( 80–90 per cent ) . |