Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having hinted at its defects on several occasions , I feel the time is now right for a more detailed examination of the various editorial ‘ improvements ’ . |
| 2 | It is indeed possible for a theoretically single item to have more than one location simultaneously , typically the case with temporary locations and compound objects . |
| 3 | The technical advances of recent years have made it possible for a particularly skilled artist , such as Matt Yuricich , working for instance on the final rooftop confrontation between Deckard ( Harrison Ford ) and Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer ) in Blade Runner , to reduce the number of generations of film going into the composite ( ie action + backgrounds ) by imitating the colours of film rather than of nature ( or , in this case , of the concrete jungle ) . |
| 4 | While most are manufactured in handy sizes to make popular-sized pools , it is quite possible for a little extra expense to have one made to personal specifications . |
| 5 | This has little effect and the courts will still regard the contract as one contract ( albeit a severable one ) and therefore it is possible for a sufficiently serious breach to be a repudiation of the whole contract , Smyth ( Ross ) v. Bailey ( 1940 H.L. ) |
| 6 | It 's possible for a really thick outdoor sweater or jacket , but beware if you want to make a full length coat ! |
| 7 | Nevertheless I felt his efforts to provide a visiting Canadian friend with as much colourful information as possible about a rather dull and isolated town was admirable . |
| 8 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Yet the Italian should perhaps be grateful for a more discriminating anniversary review of his achievements in place of the flood of notes and words which almost submerged Mozart 's genius . |
| 10 | It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the regional conferences demonstrated such a diversity of views on important aspects of educational policy that the way was left clear for a more decisive lead from the centre . |
| 11 | Tait fouled Chester midfielder Graham Barrow twice in the space of seconds and was booked ; when play restarted Tait was red-carded for a pretty innocuous challenge on Chris Lightfoot . |
| 12 | Throughout the world , formal linguistics rode high as an academically respectable subject , and many other disciplines , pure and applied rode high with it . |
| 13 | Since the French have long tended to regard the British as a doggedly upright people rather than an artistically discerning one , a critic in Diapason describes this accuracy in terms of probity ( ‘ voix droites comme la justice ’ ) ; another , writing in Compact , speaks of performances that are millimetrées , as if they were mathematical exercises . |
| 14 | The flavour should be almost viscous for a white wine , rich and succulent for a supposedly dry wine . |
| 15 | Joe Foley led for much of the distance , but once Belfast 's Stephen Mely had fought his way clear of a rather physical confrontation with Michael Cullen he closed on Foley and moved ahead with two of the 15 laps left . |
| 16 | Preparation of prosecution reports to the Procurator Fiscal of a more complex and demanding nature . |
| 17 | Emil is the most unpleasant of a scarcely likeable crew ( their penchant for quoting Shakespeare notwithstanding ) ; he has even previously been ‘ killed ’ in the gas station explosion . |
| 18 | Second , the commoditisation of hardware , which means that maintenance is no longer the critical service it once was — if something goes wrong with a relatively cheap personal computer , for example , people have the option to simply ‘ bung it in the bin ’ without wasting too much money . |
| 19 | This was an attractively produced weekly with a fairly evenly-divided diet of politics , leisure and sport . |
| 20 | In practice a resolution of 0·02 eV ( 20 meV ) is attainable with a relatively simple design using UV sources , and this is adequate to show vibrational features ( characteristically ∼ 0·1 eV ) . |
| 21 | The study of Geography develops a diversity of skills making Geography graduates popular with an extremely wide range of employers . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't be too careful with a really crusty port , ’ said Henry . |
| 23 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 24 | He was thirty-eight years old with a youthfully handsome face , tousled auburn hair that hung untidily over the collar of his open-necked white shirt and a sturdy , muscular physique which he kept in shape with a daily five-kilometre run followed by a punishing workout in his own private gymnasium . |
| 25 | He is a character easily overlooked by the reader of the text , for the bulk of the drama is conveyed in a series of dialogues between the other three characters , and attention is naturally attracted — or rather distracted — by the probability that this text is a script for a simple sort of play and thus very different from a straightforwardly narrative text . |
| 26 | A society frankly committed to legal pragmatism would be different from a self-consciously conventionalist society . |
| 27 | Another question that arises is whether , if the official orthography is different from a purely phonemic transcription , you write your data phonemically or orthographically . |
| 28 | I have strong memories of feeling different from a very early age . |
| 29 | Working from a basis not impossibly different from a very great many comprehensive schools in the UK , it achieved by this single-minded disposition of resources and energy an organization of support for teacher and pupil alike . |
| 30 | All of these design developments have been used to gain a commercial advantage by offering that ‘ extra something ’ to be different in a very competitive field . |