Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Projects UK , 1 Black Swan Court , Westgate Road , Newcastle ( Until March 7 ) AS the second of the four overseas photographers , who came to Tyneside last summer , thereby pre-empting the international flavour of the Cleveland 's River Tees project by more than a year , Natassa Markidou , who has a studio and dark-room in Athens , decided that she wanted to commemorate her stay in the North-East by going back to basics .
2 Veteran Australian Cheyne Horan took third place , while Tahiti 's Vetea ‘ Poto ’ David , a popular favourite with the crowd , who stylishly hot-dogged the biggest waves on the shortest board , was only narrowly pushed into second .
3 If this is so , it renders rather arcane the controversy about whether the dipnois were the true air-sucking lungfish , or the crossopterygii as is recorded in most textbooks .
4 It was most odd the way this woman had immediately made her feel as though she had to be conciliating .
5 Teachers ' status position in the school hierarchy also significantly affects these attitudes , the most senior ( heads and deputies ) being almost neutral , the most junior the most negative and ‘ middle management ’ ( heads of faculties , departments , years ) slightly less so .
6 Again the most senior teachers in schools are the least negative in this regard and the most junior the most negative .
7 Rather dear the shirt .
8 Also at the table were the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Robert Runcie ; Viscount Churchill , a former Lord Mayor of London Sir Robin Gillett , and Lady Gillett ; the Earl and Countess of Strathmore , and the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps the High Commissioner for Cyprus and Mrs Tasos Panayides .
9 Mostly definite the restaurant .
10 There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are .
11 The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time .
12 Sure , ‘ Something So Good ’ and ‘ Harbour Force ’ are thoroughly adequate on a headnodding level , vaguely emotional and politely insistent the both of them .
13 or deftly rabbit-punch a kidney
14 and I think that rather ruined the whole afternoon erm
15 As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle .
16 I was somewhere different every day .
17 That she was looking her best , or that Ven appreciated her appearance was made thrillingly clear a minute later , when she entered the sitting-room .
18 ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like .
19 Er John it looks less defendable every time every time a real person opens their mouths John it becomes less and less defendable ?
20 Broadly speaking , the less social closure there is , the less cohesive the social class grouping will be .
21 Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit .
22 In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year )
23 My father , certainly , did not have so pleasant an odour as my mother .
24 At so grotesque a blunder .
25 One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder .
26 Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position .
27 Who would have dreamed she would be so fiery the first time ?
28 As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation .
29 There is some merit in the Royal Commission 's reasoning , but it does not seem to warrant so total a separation of the two branches of the profession as exists currently .
30 This is so broad a definition that it could include almost any building , structure , or site of archaeological interest made or occupied by man at any time .
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