Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The web of harmony added by the divided woodwind to the faster-moving octaves of the strings transforms the passage from a brusque late-Baroque flourish into something perhaps more appropriate to a Classical symphony . |
| 2 | He pulled the sides of the case apart and peered at the tobacco projectiles it contained , each one as potently dangerous as a Sam-7 . |
| 3 | Even recovery from something as basically physical as a broken leg will be more rapid when the patient has a determined and optimistic outlook on life . |
| 4 | Would n't it be nice if overseas pilgrims to Shakespeare 's town had something to remind them of home , and there 's nothing quite so familiar as a lamp post just like the one on the corner back home in Lisbon perhaps . |
| 5 | There is nothing quite so forlorn as a closed factory — Vic Wilcox knows , having supervised a shutdown himself in his time . |
| 6 | Those present might include the social work case workers , doctors , teachers , district or community nurses , playleaders , and anyone else directly involved in a family where such problems were suspected . |
| 7 | One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon . |