Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I also know that you spent a summer on rather a long walk . |
| 2 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 3 | We will , therefore , focus on only a few aspects , namely : primary insider trading , secondary insider trading ( tippee trading ) , tipping , and counselling and procuring others to commit an offence under the Act . |
| 4 | In sum , as societies become industrialized , so the family loses its range of functions and comes to concentrate on only a few . |
| 5 | Most early red-figure appears on only a few shapes : cups , and pots like the one-piece amphora ( figs. 86–7 ) , in which much of the pot was traditionally black and the extension of that to the background of the picture was an easy step and one which integrates the picture more fully with the pot . |
| 6 | Typically , councillors are part-time and serve on only a few committees . |
| 7 | Eventually as the rapids calm down I 'm swept to the river bank , exhausted , shaking , but mercifully only a little battered . |
| 8 | Two whole racks of lamb cooked out to just pink perfection in under 15 minutes and gave a markedly superior eating quality , and a best method for roasting a 4lb boned lamb averaged out over all tests with remarkably only an 8 per cent weight loss . |
| 9 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
| 10 | ‘ I was surprised at Steve , ’ said Dick , after watching the world junior champion clear only a paltry 2.05 metres on Sunday compared to double European Cup winner Grant 's 2.25 . |
| 11 | Palaeography is a very inexact science , and should the researcher wish to delve a little deeper an excellent starting point is The Handwriting of English Documents by H.C . |
| 12 | A golf course is only rarely a paying proposition in itself : the real gain in value comes from obtaining planning permission to build in open countryside . |
| 13 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |
| 14 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
| 15 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 16 | In sum the archaeological evidence confirms in rather a striking manner the impression conveyed by writers who held to the view that ivory connoted luxury and in itself constituted a treasure in much the same sense as gold , silver and precious stones . |
| 17 | He struck , and reeled in rather a good perch . |
| 18 | No doubt because of his strictures on Hardy in After Strange Gods , and because he found Hardy 's view of life personally antipathetic — and when Eliot disliked a writer , as he disliked Aldous Huxley ( i.e. the work , not the man ) , and as he disliked Addison , and above all Goethe , his antipathy was intense and difficult to budge — he reacted in rather a lukewarm manner . |
| 19 | Consequently the cadmium red light and the droplets of gold fused into the Renaissance gold where they fell upon it in rather a pleasing manner . |
| 20 | But the tendency of such an argument is in the direction of complete relativism , or an entirely arbitrary nominalism , of the type represented by Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking-glass : " " When I use a word " , Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone , " it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more or less . " " |
| 21 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
| 22 | The area of the former Metro County is now only residually an administrative city ( in the form of successor joint boards ) and never really was a cultural city . |
| 23 | All right a new design new styling . |
| 24 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 25 | Below right A male bighorn sheep with a particularly fine set of horns . |
| 26 | BELOW RIGHT A large female crocodile on the Nile River . |
| 27 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
| 28 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 29 | It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference . |
| 30 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |