Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The American was pleasant enough but it soon emerged from the conversation that the two women had little , if anything , in common .
2 but they 're not relevant to that so when you actually come to that you fill in all the relevant details
3 ( Actually , it is Oxford University Press , but we can be sure of this only because we already know something about this publisher . )
4 And as this competition intensifies we should become more demanding so that we actually get the kind of services and products we want .
5 At other points the crest from I will coincide with a trough from 2 so that they almost cancel each other out to give one of the hollows of the pattern .
6 Nor is the road between , say , Salisbury and Winchester necessarily medieval just because it now links the two medieval towns .
7 But she says I 've had enough of this now and it there do n't help
8 I had n't expected to be able to speak to Alan before the end of the week , but at a quarter to five Sylvia de Groot telephoned to say that he was free now if I still wanted to see him .
9 Johnny Tillotson 's Poetry in Motion , Lesley Gore 's It 's my Party , Cliff Richard 's Move It , the Ventures ' Walk Do n't Run , Eddie Cochran 's C'm on Everybody … all sound as fresh today as they ever did .
10 Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill .
11 You can do this even if you also want to go and speak , or ask someone else to speak for you .
12 If you also take that away and you also take away land which is already covered by settlement , I would suggest that you 're left with very little and so what 's the strategic gap ?
13 The hon. Member for Cannock and Burntwood ( Mr. Howarth ) has as much right as anyone else to ask a question on a matter of general interest to the whole House of Commons .
14 The argument that increased non-bank financial intermediation will tend to raise velocity and therefore the amount of spending that can be undertaken with a given stock of money , is simple enough if we once recognise in velocity the importance of the demand for money .
15 Most MIDI processors come factory set to Omni , so you should n't need to dabble too much here unless you really want to .
16 Children with previous experience not only did the shows at the Pavilion at 2 pm and 7 pm but they also appeared at the Ballroom in between , thoroughly enjoying the mad rush .
17 The water-based ones are quite easy to apply and dry quickly but they often look patchy afterwards unless you finish off with a water-based varnish instead of the usual oil-based polyurethane .
18 They adjust the intensities of these so that they exactly match the light from the surface , making the fish effectively invisible from below .
19 He hesitated , his anger subsiding quickly as it always did , and leaving him feeling exhausted .
20 I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’
21 We should n't forget either though that we already have a Social Chapter from the ni nineteen eighty seven Act , it 's not to be sniffed at , it 's given us the directive on the protection of pregnant women at work .
22 But that 's easier said than done , and you will be lucky indeed if it never happens to you .
23 I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things
24 ‘ We played plenty of pretty football at Spurs , but it was n't good enough because we just did n't threaten them ‘ We will The side I put out on Wednesday night will have to be positive .
25 United not so good away but you never know
26 She had heard it all before but he always seemed to forget he had told her .
27 They 're closer now than they ever have been .
28 I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether .
29 Be better though so you just open theirs .
30 She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children .
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