Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boer nationalism merely erected a massive legislative panoply for racial discrimination . |
| 2 | Within the Six , the strongest support came from the West German Finance Minister , Ludwig Erhard , who had long favoured a broader European grouping than that being developed by the Six . |
| 3 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 4 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 5 | Babies put on a lot of fat in the last few weeks before they are born , so looked a poor little skinny scrap of a thing . |
| 6 | Becky 's not only made a good physical recovery , but a good emotional one as well . |
| 7 | The railways not only made a direct physical impact on the landscape : their indirect effects were equally powerful and far-reaching . |
| 8 | Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it . |
| 9 | At one NL meeting the self-confessed animal lover and Jew-hater suddenly adopted a full-blooded Lamarckian argument to explain the difference between Swedish and British cattle . |
| 10 | Fishermen scurry all over the seas catching anchovies ; quarrymen have long made a living scraping guano from the bird-rich islands . |
| 11 | The Head , who had obviously prepared a lengthy moralising talk for this historic first assembly in the new sports hall rose to his feet just as the bell for the end of assembly rang . |
| 12 | But we 've only got a ti now we 've only got a tiny little lawn |
| 13 | ‘ I 've only got a no-hoper left , ’ Sam complained . |
| 14 | He 's only got a little tiny table top one . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid I 've only got a little red one ! |
| 16 | During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice . |
| 17 | Deemed delicious , he ate the lot and then had a cheese omelette and pronounced himself satisfied , having only had a nasty old British rail sandwich en route . |
| 18 | I mean we we , we 've got taco shells , but I find that the taco shells have kinda got a wee funny taste to them . |
| 19 | In addition to the launch vehicles provided by the Soviet Union , Iraq has apparently invented a makeshift disposable launcher of its own . |
| 20 | I do not know why the Leader of the House bothers with his Committees , given that he has apparently introduced a major constitutional innovation without any agreement from them . |
| 21 | If the base drive of the switching transistor was suddenly removed a large induced voltage would appear between the transistor collector and emitter , causing permanent damage to the drive circuit . |
| 22 | It all seemed disjointed and unreal to Donaldson , as if his world had suddenly taken a lurching sideways step . |
| 23 | Located in the Hawaiian Island of Oahu is Pearl Harbor where the United States has long maintained a massive naval presence which guards against an attack on the west cost of America . |
| 24 | In the case of BR , the act merely sanctioned a lengthy historical tradition of formal industrial relations in the old private railway companies . |
| 25 | Unhappily , it had only lasted a few short weeks , but all their friends still shuddered at the memory of their truly spectacular fights ! |
| 26 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 27 | ICI has just developed a new composite widely touted to be a likely contender ; it is now undergoing clinical trials at Liverpool University . |
| 28 | Crying , his duet with K D Lang , stormed to No 12 while I Drove All Night has just enjoyed a long Top 10 run . |
| 29 | This American menswear firm , of totally different culture and nature , has just reported a vestigial half-year profit of $1.5 million . |
| 30 | Mr Mohamed Al Fayed thus obliged a leading French newspaper to substantiate , by implication , a grand version of his personal history that has turned out to be false . ’ |