Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
2 | Always the most directly relevant to a charged state of mind even though it was n't always modem , it was thus the most comforting and the most healing . |
3 | He 'll be a little less adventurous for a while , and that gives us an advantage . ’ |
4 | If you actually had to live below stairs and see the obscene way people were treated , you might be a little less sympathetic towards a man who claimed just to be following orders because he was weak . |
5 | As always , the bridge pickup lacks any serious punch , but its middle and neck cohorts do an admirable job , if a little buzzily due to a lack of any serious screening . |
6 | If you asked Bradley , he says he does n't know what the crime rate is at the moment , which seems a little politically unsound for a mayor . |
7 | Keeping that in mind it gives you somewhere else to go musically , and those themes tend to be a little more prominent from an adult point of view . |
8 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
9 | Previn and Ashkenazy in their different ways indulge the undulations without worrying unduly about the central axis , which considering rachmaninov 's generic title ‘ Symphonic ’ is perhaps a little too much of a good thing . |
10 | It smacked a little too much of a primitive society . |
11 | If anything , Ambassador is perhaps a little too strong for a three-day event horse … ’ |
12 | They will never replace the PCs completely , after all straight text processing is a little too trivial for a Macintosh , but they are starting to appear in other areas dominated by specially adapted , and very expensive PC systems . |
13 | But it is perhaps a little too wild for a Canadian weekend . |