Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial .
2 Rewards of a more subtle kind thus have to be substituted .
3 She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it .
4 Within each caste there existed numerous subdivisions , which allotted members a ranking vis-à-vis each other .
5 Short term supplementation with vitamin C reduces the cell proliferation to normal values possibly by reducing the S-phase duration .
6 Polite , friendly , neither intense nor passionate in their responses , they do not appear to have strong opinions either about chess or about their own future .
7 By talking a lot , loudly , and expressing strong opinions early on , and frequently .
8 Rex is a man of strong opinions unflaggingly put into practice .
9 But do n't you think that gen that Harlow generally has that feeling ?
10 I 've never noticed that badge before .
11 A horrible damp stifling smell then filled his lungs .
12 For most people , a penny on or off the standard tax rate — that formulation again ! — pales into insignificance compared with their pre-tax income , the inflation rate , the size of their pension and their mortgage interest rate .
13 Arrange the plants side by side and cut a thin sliver from each stem so that the two wounds exactly match when brought together .
14 The cash limits were intended to reduce the social cost of distortionary taxes elsewhere , to impose ‘ financial discipline ’ in the hope of attaining a performance that was closer to that which was cost-minimizing for any output , and to increase the bargaining power of management in wage negotiations .
15 All Lakewood acoustics are built from solid woods throughout — top , back , sides , edge-binding , the lot — and these two are essentially the same guitar , but with different decoration and different woods for the back and sides .
16 ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War .
17 They were a large group including the Anderson cousins and were all amused to see quiet , timid Sarah so furious .
18 ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops .
19 And as they walked , Shelley could n't quite believe that she was really awake , and not just dreaming of walking beside him , close to him , his strong fingers actually touching her flesh , and the warmth of his breath against her cheek .
20 ‘ We 've had telepathic contacts before in sympathetic Returners . ’
21 To the people the youthful 48-year-old worked with in the theatrical world she was a real professional on stage and a bubbly , friendly extrovert away from the audience .
22 The surface was soggy , but there was a solid base underneath .
23 The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point .
24 Seventy per cent of it is going into farmer 's pockets , right , even on goods like m m manufactured goods , we pay V A T on er manufactured goods and that V A T pays for our contribution to the European Community and most of that contribution , about seventy per cent of it , goes to farmers tt erm , right so the next economic costs to European Community right are fourteen point nine billion alright that 's the size of the dead weight loss that 's the inefficiency right , of agricultural support right , losing fifteen billion dollars a year , right , just going down the er , the Swanny okay Just a couple of point just before we er before we close .
25 Now just to give you some numbers erm on er who gains and who loses right erm right for the world as a whole right , erm the study conducted by right nineteen eighty nine I looked at the cost of some benefits from agricultural support alright , in nineteen eighty six to nineteen eighty seven in just one year one crop year alright .
26 ( Certainly , Working for patients will in due course also require management accounting skills but these will be used to address different issues — such as how to ‘ price ’ contracts for clinical services — from those previously on the agenda . )
27 SFA may in due course also include relevant European institutions ( see page 37 below ) as qualifying intermediaries .
28 Alright well to consider it in due course anyway , for the moment there it is .
29 However , in due course more and more authority ( over defence and foreign affairs for example ) went to the central government .
30 The Conservative Government 's attempts at reviving the private-rented sector have met with very little success though in due course more substantial results are expected from the 1988 Housing Act .
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