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 . |