Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't know the words if you do n't know what the Spanish or lemonade or you ca n't spell the darn thing you 'll get a low mark right . |
| 2 | Johanna did n't seem upset or crying or anything like that . |
| 3 | Well you can please yourself , it could be that or pine or whatever ca n't it ? |
| 4 | If the module is of type SOURCE , FOREIGN or PMODEL and its name has only been reserved ( i.e. the module has not yet been entered into LIFESPAN ) , the Latest version field will display NONE . |
| 5 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 6 | It is clear that Manne and his supporters see the use of inside information as a reward to entrepreneurs and other corporate employees for their initiative and ingenuity ; a perk , as it were , for the role they play within the economic system . |
| 7 | I said , ‘ It 's clear that Frank and I ca n't work together , so obviously he should leave me alone . |
| 8 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 9 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 10 | AB can not appear , in the epistemic sense of ‘ appear ’ , to me to be shorter than BC unless I possess this concept . |
| 11 | While there was no real social context to the biography of Dorian Gray , who entered a pact with an unseen devil to have his portrait carry the weight of his ageing and guilt while he maintained the freshness of youth and innocence , in this version the victims gather round like Banquo 's ghost , gazing at the decline which is merited and tangible . |
| 12 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 13 | In narrow spaces like these it is easy to see why Prague Baroque had to be more dramatic with a greater sense of movement , light and shade than its Viennese equivalent . |
| 14 | Hindsight throws a retrospective shadow over people and events which distort light and shade as they were actually perceived at the time . |
| 15 | excludes light and insects but which is not airtight . |
| 16 | The humour was devastatingly fresh and Vic and his sidekick Bob saw life from a sort of vaguely diagonal point of view . |
| 17 | Erm , from the E C were , we 've decided to hold the usual Christmas social and Peggy and myself will organise as before with the usual conscripts , you know , the usual team of workers , volunteers I mean . |
| 18 | I remember we did a live version of ‘ Space Oddity ’ with acoustic guitar , bass and congas and it did n't go down so well . ’ |
| 19 | Something almost mystically , er , right , about guitar , bass and drums and nothing else . |
| 20 | For five years , Hong Kong was a bubble of optimism , growing fatter and fatter while its walls stretched thinner . |
| 21 | Brown ( 1980 ) takes this as evidence that there is a range of language contexts and that these may be influenced rather differently by these aspects of motivation . |
| 22 | Some critics have interpreted this as evidence that he finds the human body disgusting , but the opposite is true . |
| 23 | Gastrectomy is not devoid of complications , mortality has been reported as being as high as 16% and there is a high incidence of short and long term complications after surgery . |
| 24 | Lottie Mayor is charming as Liesl and I have no reservations about the local children recruited to play the younger von Trapps , as they perform some complicated routines with great enthusiasm and aplomb . |
| 25 | Indonesian conservationists have reported that at least 1,000 orang-utangs have been smuggled from the country 's forests via Singapore to Taiwan , where they are popular as pets before they grow to adult size . |
| 26 | ‘ Everyone said it was ridiculously high when Gazza and I went for over £2 million . |
| 27 | She looks nowhere near as old as Rebecca and she 's a month older . |
| 28 | A great many of them , certainly those who are the prime candidates to read our magazine , are strikingly different as fathers than their fathers ; they 're also different lovers , husbands , bosses and sons . |
| 29 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 30 | It is possible that Childebert and his mother , Brunhild , had some sympathy for Gundovald , who was careful not to lay claim to Childebert 's territory ; indeed he took oaths on Childebert 's behalf . |