Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] but [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sum up , the Signature is an extremely posh-sounding thing but if you like your Teles truly spiteful , as I do , then I 'd guess that this would be £1,600 not particularly well spent . |
| 2 | This family is not a totally foreign family but as I say there were elements of interference that made the task of the County particularly onerous in this case . |
| 3 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 4 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 5 | I know we used the video but that was for a very specific reason but if you know have you ever been to one of those lectures where there 's there 's overheads going on here and then they go and they write on there and they you have some slides and then you have a video and then you know it 's like being at Wimbledon . |
| 6 | I just thought that something like that it would be very good practice but if you have a related documents to have a record of the enquiry with it would make sense of the enquiry , even if our situation was different to the other divisions . |
| 7 | ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives . |