Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a major objective of burial societies and other forms of insurance ; irreplaceable possessions were often pawned or sold to pay for a funeral . |
| 2 | Warning colours presumably evolved because such striking patterns are easily recognised and the lesson quickly learned . |
| 3 | It may also be asked whether national political and economic policies are always debated and discussed with the seriousness they should be in curriculum committees or teachers ' colleges . |
| 4 | A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud crack of thunder . |
| 5 | The mortally wounded killer was alternatively pleading and threatening now , his insanity having paradoxically deserted him , in circumstances which would have driven others to the brink of madness . |
| 6 | The oral papillae are slightly flattened and the distalmost papillae may be widened at the free end or in some specimens larger than the others almost opercular . |
| 7 | Her dark brown hair was neatly cut and waved around her face ; there was only a slight tinge of grey . |
| 8 | If one public house has occasion to put out any customer then the other public houses are immediately alerted and likewise , if someone is banned then the other public houses are informed . |
| 9 | If one public house has occasion to put out any customer then the other public houses are immediately alerted and likewise , if someone is banned then the other public houses are informed . |
| 10 | New interests emerge , fresh claims are admitted , but old titles are seldom revised and still more rarely withdrawn . |
| 11 | But a reaction against high rise was quickly mounted and the additional subsidy was withdrawn in 1967 . |
| 12 | For uneven development also means that social groups are spatially constituted and differentiated , with variable local strengths and importance . |
| 13 | Full sound support is also given and both Ad Lib and Roland sound boards are supported . |
| 14 | In Britain , borrowing needs of all public authorities are largely centralised and expressed as a public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) . |
| 15 | In this area a seif-like dune forms , but away from the shelter of the cliff the influence of the prevalent wind is again felt and the seif-like dune tends to break down to isolated mounds and finally to barchans . |
| 16 | For the most part , popular violence was reluctantly undertaken and temperately employed , a response to extreme provocation and almost always conservative in its aims . |
| 17 | The predominant accent of the foreigners in the hotel corridors and restaurants is American , though English voices are sometimes heard and , it is said , the occasional Aberdonian . |
| 18 | This was one of the finest and largest churches here but , having survived much of the bombardment of the First World War , it was seriously damaged in the fire of 1917 when its wooden roof was totally destroyed and caused great ruination when it collapsed into the church . |
| 19 | In this case a trenchant critique of Aristotelian orthodoxy was both motivated and ( to our eyes ) deflected by religious concerns . |
| 20 | But High Winds are now forecast and the entire team may soon have to evacuate the mountain with or without him |
| 21 | The reasons for the apparent change in relative incidence at different sites are poorly understood and there is controversy about whether the increase of cardia cancer represents an absolute increment or whether the apparent increase is related to a decreased incidence of antral tumours . |
| 22 | In the head the segmental receptors are especially developed and differentiated into sense organs responding to environmental stimuli emanating often at a distance from the animal . |
| 23 | When the adsorbent becomes saturated with odour molecules its adsorptive capacity is greatly reduced and it becomes necessary to regenerate the adsorbent , usually by treatment with superheated steam . |
| 24 | Old rivalries are barely submerged and every quip has a deadly double meaning . |
| 25 | In an allegedly animal-friendly society , where the rules for pets in public places are generally blurred and often very bad , it 's pleasing to put your head down on a strange pillow knowing your pet is just a pat away . |
| 26 | Lots of titled guests were always invited and once , in my mother 's time as cook , princess Mary came to dinner . |
| 27 | The long-lasting substantial differentials between social classes is well known and well established due to the excellent analyses produced in the past in the Registrar General 's Decennial Supplements . |
| 28 | The old buildings are then demolished or left to decay . |
| 29 | The first concern of field social workers is inevitably to find and maintain placements for children who can not live continuously with their own families . |
| 30 | Social problems are discursively constructed and demand policy resolutions that must be first and foremost valuable in the context of this discourse . |