Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But f f f for many people Judy I mean th people will look to you with some degree of er of admiration and maybe some degree of of envy that you do have that strong faith that 's that 's helped you through those times . |
| 2 | Thus , in one , glorious fell swoop , we had not only first-hand , first-class information about island fishing locations , but also assured board and lodging when we arrived . |
| 3 | The sound of the explosion melded into a terrible noise that was like an animal dying in awful , bellowing pain , but beneath that sound of agony was a harsh metallic scrape and clash that punched at my belly and eardrums . |
| 4 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 5 | The only tentative conclusion that can be drawn from all these studies is that government financial assistance to strikers may play some minor part , not so much in starting , but in prolonging a strike , but it is an insignificant factor compared to the complex web of economic and political reasons that generate and sustain strike action . |
| 6 | After a tour in February 1989 of Soviet psychiatric hospitals a US delegation reported that , although some improvements had been made , people were still hospitalized for political reasons and recommended that the Soviet Union should not be readmitted to the World Psychiatric Association ( WPA — for October 1989 Soviet readmission see p. 36980 ) . |
| 7 | A communiqué issued after the meeting called for " stability-oriented " monetary policies and noted that the Gulf crisis posed " a risk of inflation and a risk of lower economic growth " . |
| 8 | In one sense , they are the strong passions and urges that I have described as coming from ‘ the roots of emotion ’ . |
| 9 | The ice crystals are pure water , and the concentrated brine that remains after their formation gathers in pockets and channels between the crystals , ultimately to drain back into the sea and sink away from the ice-sheet . |
| 10 | Others can make a loud noise when stopped and you have to turn the volume down . |
| 11 | Interpreting is limited to the oral skills and implies that the translation is being done by a professional linguist . |
| 12 | In response to questions he said politicians should not be able to have a veto on political progress and suggested that the Governments could act ‘ over their heads ’ if they failed to resume talks . |
| 13 | When I was assigned to investigate Ruggiero 's kidnapping , Pietro made a statement to the press drawing attention to my lack of experience and my political views and demanding that I be replaced immediately . |
| 14 | The give-away is to watch carefully : chlorosis has the same yellowing between the veins , but it begins and becomes more advanced in the topmost leaflet , and is followed not by a pale green leaf continuing to struggle , but by its total collapse and withering as the iron becomes not just short , but wholly denied . |
| 15 | I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] . |
| 16 | Due to being hideosly shy and a little worse for the drink I did n't want to go up to some complete stranger and act like I knew him . |
| 17 | He called for increased economic aid and insisted that developed countries , as consumers of cocaine , should share the responsibility for fighting drug trafficking . |
| 18 | Still , he created two characters in The Lord of the Rings of particular suggestiveness , both of them originally on the right side but seduced or corroded by evil , and so especially likely to have analogues in the real world : these are Denethor and Saruman , each of them seen faintly satirically , almost politically . |
| 19 | Works of art were seized from private homes and accessioned as museum property after World War II and , as such , exhibited to the public . |
| 20 | We could only dispose of this debris in the raging Shyok and hope that it would eventually be carried , via the Indus , to the northern frontiers of Pakistan — a region I well remember for its almost total lack of any suitable fuel container ! |
| 21 | I descended the stairs half-naked to one of the yelling bedrooms and announced that I would have to leave . |
| 22 | Later , Provenzano flew over a stolen car and circled while the patrolmen on the ground arrested four black men inside , forcing them to lie on the ground to be checked for weapons . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Sawyer announced the appointment of six Cabinet ministers to his interim administration and said that it did not intend to stay in power for more than a year . |
| 24 | I mean it 's it 's their responsibility to er prepare the local plan in the context of what the structure plan strategy as a whole is saying and I think it 's it 's necessary not to just look at this particular policy in total isolation and assume that that is going to give er what you fear to district councils the ability to nothing . |
| 25 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 26 | On Dec. 18 the UN Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 799 condemning the Israeli action and demanding that it be rescinded , but the Israeli Cabinet , meeting on Dec. 20 , reaffirmed its decision . |
| 27 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 28 | Men can ring the changes by wearing a different shirt or tie if they do n't want to invest in more than one suit . |
| 29 | Judges in sympathy with this view may reject the English authorities and require that actual bodily harm be committed without the victim 's consent . |
| 30 | Er just a points er I think it it you probably had this point clear in your mind anyway but there are different rules that apply as between West Yorkshire and Cleveland . |