Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb mod] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law . |
| 2 | Six thousand 'll be about close enough . |
| 3 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 4 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
| 5 | Whatever the merits of alternative analyses , and however rare the 9,9 ideal may be among undoubted business leaders at the top of companies , the students are expected to take the Grid as gospel . |
| 6 | Five that 'll be about right |