Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Alfred Hitchcock and Gary Newbon you mean , or the teams right fair enough . |
| 2 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 3 | Existing operations may have outgrown space available in the old location and it may be impossible , owing to planning restrictions or the space actually available , to expand . |
| 4 | Responses to the environment are still required , of course , because the body clock is not a perfect timekeeper and , anyway , environments can not be predicted precisely — the tide can be higher , food abnormally scarce , or the day more cloudy so darkness comes earlier . |
| 5 | But I 've left that sort of civil liberty out of this motion today , because we ca n't deal with all the , because we ca n't deal with everything all at once , but perhaps it can be tou touched at council , because we had Colonel , who also does n't like to be confused with the facts , trying to tell us that next year the , or the year after next , budgets will be cash limited , but I 've got news , they already are cash limited . |
| 6 | Or the year before that . |
| 7 | In those regions where rainfall is adequate , the soil tends to be poor , or the weather too cold . |
| 8 | One , if the stitches are very small , or the yarn not elastic , knit the last row before transfer at a tension one or two whole numbers higher than the rib tension . |
| 9 | Seldom has the time been more appropriate or the need more urgent for a Bill of this kind . |
| 10 | Strings of pack-animals ( up to thirty per string ) carried bulky loads when the distances involved were too great for cumbersome carts , or the job too urgent for river transport . |
| 11 | If the crowd became too large or the children too cheeky , the stall owner who had granted me permission would disperse them . |
| 12 | When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering . |
| 13 | These men happily induce front tyre slides , either with a touch more brake , a tweak on the bars or a fraction more lean angle . |
| 14 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 15 | These are handsome , rusty brown birds with a remarkably amicable disposition for a bird of prey , though they can catch a rabbit or a bird as large as a heron with ease . |
| 16 | It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business . |
| 17 | The discussion so far might suggest the following definition : a public function is a function peculiar to government , or a function not peculiar to government the performance of which has an important impact on society at large . |
| 18 | Erm it was still pretty marginal er but er at least it was opened and erm in eighteen er it carried on until , in eighteen seventy , seventy one , the line was extended back to or a station roughly halfway between the two . |
| 19 | Or a mite more forgiving in a tight spot ? |
| 20 | Harold wants Northumbria for the Godwin family , not an inflated Siward or a Scotia so weak that Norway could step in and settle there . ’ |
| 21 | The poor acceleration of an aerotow makes a swing or a wing-drop more likely . |
| 22 | Or a shade more solid on the straight ? |
| 23 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 24 | In the circumstances of the present case there was either no breach , or no breach sufficiently substantial to be capable of triggering exclusion . |
| 25 | Remember , the protectiveness of your subconscious is unlikely to allow you to go straight to a period or an event so traumatic that it has affected you for such a long time afterwards . |
| 26 | The language was not majestic , nor the order wholly logical . |
| 27 | It was just past dawn and she believed she had n't slept : not that night , nor the previous night , nor the night before that . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't go last week either , nor the week before , nor the week before that . |
| 29 | The Earth also spins , quickly enough to ensure that the nights are not too cold , nor the days too hot . |
| 30 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |