Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , still clutching the slices of unyielding satin to her , Nicandra wondered how it was possible to acknowledge fitly the immediate and selfless gallantry she had seen . |
| 2 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 3 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 4 | Under section 40(4) ( a ) a review can be postponed if it is net practicable to carry out a review at that time . |
| 5 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 6 | Without this redshift/distance relation , it would be possible to estimate reliably the distance to most of the galaxies we observe . |
| 7 | In this way , it is possible to estimate how the chemical stability of a sound recording will fare with time . |
| 8 | Alexa , who lives with her parents in a village near Maesteg , Mid Glamorgan , is due to carry out a second week of jury service from Monday . |
| 9 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 10 | Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative . |
| 11 | On the word ‘ go ’ , everyone runs round the room trying to burst as many balloons as possible using only the newspapers . |
| 12 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 13 | There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service … |
| 14 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 15 | By 1922 only 232 households owned a plough , whilst 278 lacked even a primitive wooden plough with which to turn over their new earth , if indeed they possessed any . |
| 16 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 17 | Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners . |
| 18 | As the National Curriculum is implemented , it will be possible to carry out a check of the curriculum of each school . |
| 19 | It is also possible to carry out a search by highlighting a word in your original work , cut and paste sections of the Thesaurus into your document and load the program into a DOS Window in 386 enhanced mode for use with Windows . |
| 20 | For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available . |
| 21 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 22 | It may be impractical to carry out a stocktake or inspect the plant and machinery ( particularly if the Vendor wishes to keep the transaction confidential from the work force ) . |
| 23 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 24 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 25 | In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art . |
| 26 | On a clear day it is possible to see both the English and Bristol Channels ; the distant Quantocks and Mendips frame the Somerset Levels , with Glastonbury Tor rising mysteriously out of the mists . |
| 27 | Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved . |
| 28 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 29 | We were due to try out the show at Farnham , a 400-seater theatre , less than an hour from London . |
| 30 | That beats even the £1,784 a week paid last year for unemployed interior designer Peter Julien 's house in Hampstead , London . |