Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore warmly welcome any attempt to expand the scope of existing tools and/or present entirely new concepts . |
| 2 | In particular , the speed of cutting from one scene to another has accelerated considerably , so that commercials from the late fifties or early sixties now look incredibly slow . |
| 3 | One means of enhancing the appearance of your home , and at the same time greatly improving security , is to replace old and badly fitting softwood framed windows with upvc or hardwood double glazed units . |
| 4 | Of course , studies of police attitudes or talk however racist , do not necessarily show the police to be discriminatory in practice . |
| 5 | One saving grace was that television drama preferred scenes of short , crisp dialogue which artists , by and large , preferred to doing large chunks of monologue or narration more common in the Theatre . |
| 6 | An annual ‘ boy or girl most likely to run the country ’ jamboree . |
| 7 | You can soak off old glue in water , but you may have to chisel or sand away modern adhesives and you 'll have to use a chisel to clean out the mortise . |
| 8 | ( 6 ) Where any part of the portfolio or account is to be available for investment in contingent liability transactions ( such as futures ) , the maximum amount or percentage so available . |
| 9 | As you drive about the countryside next weekend , and especially if you find yourself approaching a town or village once famous for its market days , look out for places along the route where flanking hedges stand back several yards off the road . |
| 10 | No retributory institution , prison , hulk , penal colony , or penitentiary adequately combined punishment with reformation : he and his select committees exposed them , to little avail . |
| 11 | Fifty-six per cent did not operate the sales ledger on secured terms ; 27 per cent did ; and 16 per cent sometimes operated on secured terms , using bank guarantees , export credit guarantee , or cash up front . |
| 12 | Pupils may become medieval monks ( or nuns ) in a monastery , listening to an address by the abbot , taking part in worship , acting as medieval scribes , or doing more mundane tasks such as gardening or preparing food and eating a medieval meal . |
| 13 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 14 | Mankind as a whole , or much more probably a tribe or race more advanced than others , had reached the conclusion that some less harsh substitute for the laws of survival which produced the human body had to be found in order to bring about the necessary control . |
| 15 | For example , many people find some fruits , such as oranges or pineapple too acidic . |
| 16 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |
| 17 | Tangible assets are stated at cost or valuation less accumulated depreciation . |
| 18 | Also , if one does n't already exist it may be possible to develop a credit information exchange in your industry or area where interested parties can share credit experiences for the common good . |
| 19 | And do you consider price or quality more important when you buy your clothes ? |
| 20 | If theory itself is to be no longer the ‘ double ’ of art or life then Nietzschean affirmation , and not critical theory , would be on the intellectual agenda . |
| 21 | If I use the DIR command on the problem directory there are no files listed but in response to the RD command I get the message : Invalid path , not directory , or directory not empty |
| 22 | Is the tale to be told in the short space of thirty or forty minutes with a minimal cast ? 1f so , then care should be taken to dispense with any dancer or item not essential to the action , e.g. Ashton eliminated several characters in Turgenev 's A Month in the Country . |
| 23 | Use public transport more or walk or cycle whenever possible . |
| 24 | Swindon 's board said ; There 's no rift and no apparent rhyme or reason why Chief Executive , Peter Day suddenly walked out of Swindon Town . |
| 25 | But other types of museum found the provisions disposing only to enhance the institution 's collections or mission unduly restrictive , and an open debate was scheduled to review the Code of Ethics . |
| 26 | A patient has the ‘ right to decline operative investigation or treatment however unreasonable or foolish this may appear in the eyes of his medical advisers ’ . |
| 27 | * Worthless — Major faults or way too expensive |
| 28 | ***** Stunning — The very best of its kind **** Impressive — This one 's tasty *** Reasonable — Does the job ** Not so hot — Expensive for what you get * Worthless — Major faults or way too expensive |
| 29 | Worthless — Major faults or way too expensive |
| 30 | There is no event or activity too large for us to consider . |