Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those demands that have so far been made have come from Slovakia , the most controversial concerning a fourteenth-century Italian Gothic altar . |
| 2 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 3 | Maggie thought Phoebe did it deliberately ; Phoebe was normally rather well-dressed in a casual sort of way , and had the best fitting proper designer jeans and lovely hand-knitted posh jumpers ; she had plenty of skirts and frequently wore them . |
| 4 | The point has therefore now been made with three examples that it is usually carbonate facies that are so remarkably persistent in a lateral sense . |
| 5 | Apart from the fact that the writing is rather sloppy in a pompous sort of way , it seems to me that the whole exercise was not worthwhile . |
| 6 | The EEG unit electro-encephalogram unit is one of the most advanced in a British children 's hospital . |
| 7 | The practice , which I gather is fairly widespread in Africa , appears to be effective in warding off anaemia , presumably due to a high iron concentration in the mud . |
| 8 | The broad sense in which I shall be using homophobia is loosely descriptive of a manifest phenomenon : the hatred , fear , and persecution of , the raging at , homosexuality and homosexuals . |
| 9 | Such accidentally created fires are usually most devastating after a long dry period when the organic content of the litter and soil is experiencing moisture deficiency and the presence of dry kindling provides a good fuel supply . |
| 10 | It was ceasing to be overwhelmingly political in a narrow sense and acquiring new dimensions which , even well before the First World War , were clearly destined soon to become very important . |
| 11 | Now the ship greyhound outline of a frigate but rather that of a clumsy old sow with submarine piglets suckling beside her . |
| 12 | Since then we have enjoyed excellent results with the food — the Spirulina in sinking stick and flake form being outstandingly popular with a wide range of fish including brackish water puffers and gobies , a Picasso Trigger ; and our newly acquired shoal of Severums . |
| 13 | The situation is altogether different in a continuous-process industry . |
| 14 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 15 | Considering the rock at Tremadog feels so solid on a small scale , it 's rather a shame that it has a large scale tendency to become part of the scree at the foot of the crag ! |
| 16 | When asked to explain his responses at the end of the study , he replied that his chosen shapes ‘ looked closer and brighter ’ , but did not mention the symmetry which is so striking to a normal observer . |
| 17 | His look as he glanced across at her resembled so much that of a shamefaced small boy that she found it hard to control a smile . |
| 18 | If Frances had not been so low with a cold , maybe she would n't have reacted so strongly to Andy , her boyfriend . |
| 19 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 20 | Leni had taken pity — more than pity — on the young woman who was so grateful for a friendly German voice and so bemused by the political carnival she had unleashed . |
| 21 | They were to be expected in that , the middle watch , when eyes were gritty with tiredness and the air stale and limbs cold , but it was less usual in a busy forenoon watch as this . |
| 22 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 23 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 24 | For the age range 14 and under 17 , prosecution is only possible for a limited number of offences on the authority of a magistrate , and the extended care , protection and control procedure is used in most cases . |
| 25 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 26 | She was also attracted by the opportunity to do advocacy whilst serving articles , which is only possible in a local authority . |
| 27 | He said the feasibility study would seek to prove that laser welding was not only possible in a subsea environment , but would also lead to substantial improvements and cost savings . |
| 28 | It came to include the policy for polytechnics , that is — a measure of concentration — announced in the 1966 White Paper , and more or less finalized in a Parliamentary statement in April 1967 , when Crosland announced confirmation of a list of twenty-eight polytechnics in England and Wales , leaving open the possibility of two more . |
| 29 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 30 | The bad weather universal in the northern hemisphere this year is entirely attributable to a phenomenal volcanic explosion in the southern hemisphere last year ! |