Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quartz , on the other hand , is the most stable and crystallizes at the lowest temperature . |
| 2 | sh , he 's really sort of like , dead brainy and goes to the child-minder and goes to school and whatever ! |
| 3 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 4 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 5 | The significance of the seven-hooded Cobra is most clear when related to the discipline of Kundalini Yoga and the seven levels of consciousness leading to Samadhi or ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 6 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 7 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 8 | And , of the instinctual components necessarily repressed and sublimated in the service of culture , the coprophilic is one of the most significant , says Freud : ‘ the excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual ; the position of the genitals — inter urinas et faeces — remains the decisive and unchangeable factor ’ ( vii . |
| 9 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 10 | The sudden stilling of the wind brought with it a silence so total when compared to the continual cacophony of the past hours that the shock of it , for a moment , held Mariana and Trent immobile . |
| 11 | You did n't have to be highly professional and experienced like a personnel manager has to be today . |
| 12 | Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time . |
| 13 | In this way , the dictionary , being a general-purpose source of knowledge designed for use by non-experts , is being used to contribute to the recognition of text that is both highly specific and intended for a specific audience only . |
| 14 | Scruton ( 1984 ) has argued that freedom for conservatives is only possible when subordinated to an organisation or arrangement which defines the individual 's aim . |
| 15 | The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs . |
| 16 | But Hilary Witt , head of Cambridgeshire 's catering service , admits : ‘ The trouble is , going into a school hall for dinner is less exciting than going into the Wimpy bar . |
| 17 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 18 | That temper was raised higher still when he was finally allowed through and found Matchsticks already waiting , idly smoking and flicking through a copy of Lui . |
| 19 | It is this , more than anything else , which makes the map of this sort of country look so empty when compared with the map of anciently enclosed country in say mid Sussex , Essex or Devon . |
| 20 | My prognosis is extremely grave and follows from the diagnosis , that these are consequences of a divided society . |
| 21 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 22 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 23 | Experimentally the system is extremely simple and consists of a device rather like a geiger counter filled with an inert gas and containing the atoms of the element in question . |
| 24 | It would not entitle the buyer to reject all other instalments unless the seller 's breach was so serious as to amount to a repudiation of the contract ( see paragraph 11–08 below ) . |
| 25 | Similarly a God derived from mankind 's need and not from ancient superstitions , can be so developed and adapted to the changing requirements of ever-advancing life , that there will be no danger of destroying the associated religion or of weakening its appeal . |
| 26 | Their achievements may be limited when compared with those of others , but they are no less real and fulfilling for the people concerned . |
| 27 | However , concern over the accountability aspect of the appraisal led the head of department to point out that he was torn between being brutally honest and papering over the cracks . |
| 28 | Sam was so delighted and went round the room shaking hands , offering peace and cake . |
| 29 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 30 | Being so central and combined with the fact that it 's also a club Exclusive hotel where you can always be sure of a lively , fun atmosphere and a friendly welcome , it 's hardly surprising that the Catherine is our most popular base in town and comes top of our list for summer ‘ 90 . |