Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Irenius provides sufficient example to bring Eudoxus to proclaim : ‘ In truth , this which you tell is a most shameful hearing and to be reformed with most sharp censures in so great personages to the terror of the meaner ’ . |
| 2 | In this most strange place and in this short moment Nicholas lost his heart and knew for certain that at last , at very last , without doubt or question , he had fallen in love . |
| 3 | The new chairman , Sir John Quinton , claimed : ‘ The economy is poised to move upward this year and in 1994 . |
| 4 | Strictly controlled should mean consented after the most careful deliberation and under the most carefully contrived er conditions . |
| 5 | So what you would see is the machine , as it were , engaging the patient in a much more perhaps conversational mode and with much more feedback and response to the way in which the patient is answering the questions or behaving , rather than just , as it were , a machine which elicits information from the patient and compares it with a statistical set of data . |
| 6 | Another study found that poorly differentiated solid carcinomas showed only weak staining and in our small sample a poorly differentiated tumour would significantly decrease the apparent sensitivity . |
| 7 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 8 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 9 | And so it was that Gladstone Murray , Ernie L. Bushnell and four others , including myself , staggered through the winter blizzard at just after 10 o'clock that evening and through the C.P.R. station to Eastbound Track No1 . |
| 10 | West Indies bowled better this time and at 83 for 5 had England in trouble , with only Gooch having looked confident . |
| 11 | Before flight can occur the thoracic flight-muscles must attain a sufficiently high temperature and for this reason some insects carry out preliminary vibrations of the wings before flight , thereby raising the temperature of the muscles to over 30- C , for example , in Bombus , and some Lepidoptera ( Krogh and Zeuthen , 1941 ; Dorsett , 1962 ; Kammer , 1968 ) . |
| 12 | In the former , he will find services provided in house by members of the National Union of Public Employees at extremely high cost and of poor quality . |
| 13 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 14 | In practice we know have a greater quantity of food , more choice of different foods with less seasonal variation and of better quality than every before , all at a cheaper price . |
| 15 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 16 | ‘ Somehow I survived that long cold night and in the morning the wind stilled and a chill grey mist drifted over the moors . |
| 17 | To be a well trained , dedicated and highly motivated team and to be committed totally to safety . |
| 18 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 19 | May I thank my honourable friend for that extremely helpful reply and for the encouraging figures which he has given to the house this afternoon . |
| 20 | Now the couple enjoy a less hectic lifestyle and for Mr Jefferson the highlight of the day is receiving The Northern Echo . |
| 21 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 22 | However , that day , we were also on our way to battle , although of a less deadly kind and with less deadly consequences . |
| 23 | The resulting Readership Report set the guidelines for making reading a less esoteric activity and for actively canvassing the pleasure of good books in the face of hyped and ephemeral competition . |
| 24 | Unfortunately it is an extremely time-consuming process and at the time of the SEA much yet remained to be done before all the products that needed to be dealt with had in fact been covered . |
| 25 | The Gulf crisis also contributed to a fall in revenue from tourism , which accounted for 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) ; UK and US visitors in particular brought less income , although hoteliers also blamed the government for the damaging effect of a highly valued peseta and for not investing more heavily in tourist infrastructure , especially in improved coastal sewerage systems . |
| 26 | After the addition of 1 µmol/ml of lecithin , the nucleation time was lengthened in only one bile and after 2.5 µmol/ml in only two biles . |
| 27 | Also , the proportion of households containing one person living alone increased between 1981 and 1991 from 22% to 26% , and the proportion of households containing only one adult and at least one child increased from 2% to 4% . |
| 28 | There is only one stream and in periods when the rains fail this can dry up altogether . |
| 29 | Waste ore is a somewhat obscure term and in this context might refer to the residual sand and gravel , which did have a market of sorts . |
| 30 | At this juncture the objective is to treat the analysis of nonlinear circuits in a much wider context and in a much more general manner . |