Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of the penalty , recoverable by the Registrar , varies according to whether the company is private or public and to the length of time that the default continues ; the minimum being £100 for a private company and £500 for a public company when the default is for not more than three months and the maximum £1000 for a private and £5,000 for a public company when the default exceeds 12 months . |
| 2 | But he saw the prayers of the Church as a living and fruitful tradition which threw up new ideas , some on reflection wrong or offending and to be rejected , others the seeds of devotion . |
| 3 | Keep the rules clear and simple and to the point . |
| 4 | Your orders are clear and sensible and without arrogance , and you have a great enthusiasm for everything you do . ’ |
| 5 | The biological factor is the length of time that the human child is dependent and helpless and in need of attention from parents . |
| 6 | At present , parts of the towpath are usable but several sections are so overgrown , muddy and waterlogged as to be virtually impassable . |
| 7 | On the way down , the path can be muddy and steep and in places needs extra care . |
| 8 | The public rooms are graceful , fresh and elegant and by night a pianist adds to the relaxed atmosphere . |
| 9 | Described as vocally and orchestrally scintillating , THE DUENNA is both funny and fun and in this Spanish year , Opera North presents the British premiere . |
| 10 | Some people might find that totally wrong and arrogant but to me it 's a philosophy of sport . ’ |
| 11 | The money , however , always disappears — leaving the professional high and dry and minus a considerable sum of money . |
| 12 | It seemed in truth a time of indulgent expansion ; and , as if in retribution , students of all kinds , in universities old and new and in the polytechnics , became more and more resistant to authority , not just social authority , but the academic authority of their teachers and of the disciplines within which they were studying . |
| 13 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 14 | And those New England mountains seemed to me to give evidence of a human success so meagre and transitory as to be more desperate than the desert . ’ |
| 15 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 16 | Rural housing density was lower , but the houses themselves as overcrowded and unsanitary as in towns . |
| 17 | Now is about right for many of the 1981s , which are , however , not great wines , but very engaging and drinkable and at relatively affordable prices , even those with the well-known names . |
| 18 | Now , it was suggested that Mr X 's alleged subnormality did not seem consistent with a lifestyle that involved successful gambling in London clubs at a complicated card game called Kalooki , savings of £30 000 , and familiarity not just with English and French but with Hebrew and Arabic as well . |
| 19 | To him the ground may be steep and rough but on the whole it is even ; and he can pick his direction easily from the top of his moving , six-foot tower . |
| 20 | There are slight variances in these generalities depending on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship ( Quang & Chartier-Kastier , 1991 , pp 103–107 and Elmasri & Navathe , 1989 , pp 329–334 give details ) . |
| 21 | The mapping of relationships also depends on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship . |
| 22 | Given what has been said , a mental event can be simple or complex and of any duration . |
| 23 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 24 | Couched warm and safe and with me here , |
| 25 | From the 1850s and more particularly the 1870s onwards military considerations — new weapons , the importance of rapid and effective mobilisation in case of war , the balance of military and to a lesser extent naval power in general — were more prominent and pervasive than in the past . |
| 26 | Design mirrors ( represents and directly embodies ) this transformative reality by uniting , in the vertical direction , in the moment " of designing , complex human abilities both cognitive and practical and in the horizontal ( over time but in interaction with the vertical moment ) , the movement from critique through the various moments of problem resolution and definition to the realisation of the " solution " in practice ( also cognitive-practical moments but of a different order ) . |
| 27 | The epidemiology of H. contortus is best considered separately depending on whether it occurs in tropical and subtropical or in temperate areas . |
| 28 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 29 | Alongside these developments the plan also has to cater for the projection of a school image which is honest and intelligible and for making and fulfilling promises about quality . |
| 30 | Continuing along the track on a parallel course to Jingling Cave , which is unsuspected and unseen except at one point where it opens into daylight , Jingling Pot is reached , another gaping shaft described as superb in caving journals but not likely to be by timid observers . |