Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ? |
2 | However , if you left a child under 12 ( England and Wales ) or under seven ( Scotland ) in your home with an unguarded or inadequately guarded fire and they were injured as a result , you would be legally responsible . |
3 | He , in retaliation , has launched against them the most concentrated onslaughts that he has been able to devise . |
4 | I 'm ve I this is the first time it 's happened this way round that anybody 's got That 's the most subtle clue and somebody 's spotted it . |
5 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
6 | Badly digitised photos that you have to squint at . |
7 | It is the most liquid asset but it earns no interest , instead handling and storage costs are incurred . |
8 | So that erm , nobody really kn was the most monotonous job when you had to erm assess literally thousands of students in the end . |
9 | You ca n't solve one little corner , one little technical hiccup so you 'll throw a hundred years of decent work out the window and replace it with sci-fi fantasies . |
10 | Each touch of each finger seemed to burn through her sweat-shirt , and her insides gave the most awful lurch as he held her easily above the floor , his eyes fixed steadily on hers . |
11 | Hypnotists now often suggest that the subject focuses his attention by staring fixedly at a drawing pin on the wall , while telling him in rather monotonous tones that he is becoming more relaxed and sleepy . |
12 | So this is that 's why these do n't have the dimples on them , whereas they should have done if they 'd You see so there 's al there 's incredibly subtle things that you can you can pick up . |
13 | Unfortunately , circumcision is often delegated to the most junior surgeons and its potential morbidity underestimated . |
14 | The most revealing anecdote that I can tell you about that is from Coventry . |
15 | ‘ I work rather odd hours but you can always leave a message for me here at the cafe . |
16 | He still showed little emotional reaction though he was evidently angry with himself for letting his natural arrogance be so easily quashed . |
17 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
18 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
19 | I would counsel against taking this imperatival path , first on the rather weak ground that it is not necessary to do so . |
20 | To her still greater fury , his lips curved into a blatantly mocking smile as he nodded towards her clenched hands . |
21 | LLOYDS Bank yesterday looked certain to retain its position as Britain 's most profitable bank as it unveiled a soaring 28 per cent rise in profits for the year to December . |
22 | we have been most upset Gordon and I about |
23 | ‘ It has long been my opinion that you , my dear Shiona , are the most contemptible individual that I have ever encountered . ’ |
24 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
25 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
26 | and he 's got er rather curly hair and he comes into the Pentam |
27 | Surgeons had inserted a plate and nine screws into her badly broken leg and she was faced with a bill for £1,950 . |
28 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
29 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
30 | Right another thing that we want to er , want to incorporate is risk or un or uncertainty . |