Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
| 2 | Interviews , discussion , meetings , reports etc. are all potential data . |
| 3 | Goldschmidt might rather have said : " Can we really assume that the birds , etc. are such poor observers ( or that some very stupid ones among them are ) ? " |
| 4 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 5 | As between the other three , I have not expressed a particular preference , but because no developer has come forward in connection with sector three , there has perhaps been less detailed attention paid to that sector the A fifty nine , than to others . |
| 6 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 7 | In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over : |
| 8 | I 've only been awake three minutes . ’ |
| 9 | Well only been married eight months , had a little baby . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've only been married 15 days . |
| 12 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 13 | In striking contrast to the spring pattern the numbers seen in autumn have , if anything , diminished , although the picture is somewhat distorted by the exceptional occurrence of 21 at Camber on 8 October 1966 ; there have only been three other October records since 1947 . |
| 14 | Completing our coverage of the Laboratory exhibition , held at Earls Court in November , below are some further items of equipment launched at the exhibition . |
| 15 | Below are several typical ATC phrases used in conjunction with transponder operation . |
| 16 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 17 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |
| 18 | She turned her attention to the room , which had obviously been three smaller rooms at one time . |
| 19 | A certified copy of the entries in the court books is sent to the court to which the proceedings are transferred ; so are all other documents , but in enforcement or payment into court cases only if the transfer ee court so requests ( Ord 16 , r 4(3) , ( 4 ) ) . |
| 20 | ‘ So are all God-fearing admirals , ’ Denholm said . |
| 21 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 22 | ‘ So are some smart guys . |
| 23 | Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them . |
| 24 | Of course it is true that construction , distribution and services are often very labour intensive sectors even in the West , but in Japan not only are these three sectors more labour intensive , so also is manufacturing industry . |
| 25 | Tony Davies attests to the continuing force even in the 1980s of the " fluid and contradictory debris of discursive fragments which surrounds such limp , but none the less coercive , questions as " Well , what do you think of this then ? " 150 It seems that what continues largely to hold these fragments together are those practically-embedded assumptions into which Barbara Hardy , in her strict attention to the humdrum interactions rather than the more formal discursive superstructure , offers a degree of insight unusual for writings on English in higher education . |
| 26 | Inside are six ironed handkerchiefs |
| 27 | Inside are five potential recruits who have just spent twenty-four hours being briefed , tested , interviewed and assessed . |
| 28 | Yours would obviously be thirty five pounds a week . |
| 29 | There would obviously be other important programmes undertaken but the line-item approach to budgeting does little to improve managerial planning and control . |
| 30 | But even in Kenya — the country with one of the fastest population growth rates in the world — there will only be 120 million people by the time Kenyan population stabilises . |