Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females , however , continue upstream a considerable distance . |
| 2 | Furthermore a higher proportion of blacks were acquitted after trial , which again suggests insufficient evidence . |
| 3 | Furthermore a strong case can be made for arguing that religious commitment is the only way to understand the depths of religion which from the outside may remain sheer enigma . |
| 4 | Furthermore a difficult transition can prejudice the changers against the new method so that they never appreciate its superiority over the old method . |
| 5 | Hopkins advised against sending reclaimed prostitutes into domestic service because of the danger to middle-class sons : ‘ better a thousand times that this fearful social evil should be localized in certain spots , which we call dens , than by our hasty and injudicious benevolence it should be struck into the very bosom of our families . ’ |
| 6 | Better a tough general in charge , was their argument , to ensure the stability of the US-Panama relationship , than a weak civilian regime unable to control nationalist hotheads . |
| 7 | Better a little fish in a big pond than the other way round ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’ |
| 10 | Better a researched decision than a random one . |
| 11 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 12 | Suddenly a loud horn blast pieced the air , a thin strident note pregnant with urgency . |
| 13 | But suddenly a squat campesina is waving me to follow her . |
| 14 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |
| 15 | The remaining men were just preparing to leave when suddenly a young man called Laban Tall rushed into the malthouse , almost too excited to speak . |
| 16 | Then suddenly a wide grin split his face . |
| 17 | Suddenly a portentous atmosphere has been established . |
| 18 | Now that she had to leave it , the cellar was suddenly a friendly place . |
| 19 | ‘ Suddenly a sharp blast of high pressure air rushed downward from the engine , ’ she said . |
| 20 | And suddenly a sharp pain as if stabbed in the gut . |
| 21 | Suddenly a blond boy of about three darted through the door … and the precious hope in Kerry 's heart died . |
| 22 | Then quite suddenly a new design starts up . |
| 23 | Suddenly a new aspect appears beyond the obvious and very gradually takes form . |
| 24 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 25 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 26 | Land prices consequently had risen , and Stephen was suddenly a rich man . |
| 27 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 28 | Suddenly a small crate appeared in the centre of the road ahead of her . |
| 29 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 30 | It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth . |