Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How how about that as a very practical suggestion or as you say perhaps finding |
| 2 | Her ribcage lifted and her chin tilted up in self-defence to warn him off , but he seemed to interpret that as a provocatively brazen invitation . |
| 3 | would be looking at that as a more meaningful contribution to . |
| 4 | Chesarynth thought about that for a very long time . |
| 5 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |
| 6 | ‘ It may be that for a very few the search itself is a necessity . ’ |
| 7 | All that for a very modest price . |
| 8 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 9 | Some performances treat this as a rather flashy excuse for orchestral fireworks . |
| 10 | However , most mathematicians would see this as a very narrow view of their subject . |
| 11 | Ana lingered to join them and Felipe evidently took this as a very good sign . |
| 12 | We have to visualize this as a very gradual process , the early transitional plants perhaps creeping across mud flats , or partially submerged . |
| 13 | Now the defenders of participatory democracy would consider this as a very weak objection . |
| 14 | Tumin regards this as a very questionable assumption . |
| 15 | When policy was seen to be hurting the colonies , some protested ; but even the many who accepted that Britain 's relations with its colonies were unsatisfactory saw this as a relatively minor blemish on an otherwise desirable system . |
| 16 | However , do n't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem . |
| 17 | I suggest this as a purely private exercise . |
| 18 | One could be forgiven , however , for viewing this as a purely academic philosophy . |
| 19 | I saw this as a contemptuously charitable gesture . |
| 20 | Those who complain about dear money and strong sterling would doubtless see this as an even worse regime . |
| 21 | You must imagine this as an entirely gradual process , not easily represented in words . |
| 22 | As discredited limitations have been generally discarded , and natural justice has expanded to new fields , fairness is seen by some as a more appropriate tag . |
| 23 | Having just painfully disentangled herself from one relationship , she had no intention of getting involved in another for a very long time . |
| 24 | Remember that I had left England less than three days before this after an exceptionally grey and dull winter and the bright colours which typify so much Australian knitting were a delight . |
| 25 | I 'd go myself , " she added , " except that the hotel staff would think it strange if one half of a newly married couple should go for a ramble on her own . " |
| 26 | Half of a perfectly good Sunday had been wasted , but there were still several hours till dark . |
| 27 | Most students start with vague objectives or change direction quite fundamentally during their first year so that a wider range of courses is required including some broadly-based and some of a more specialized nature . |
| 28 | Some plants , among them species of myrtle , produce two kinds of pollen , one that fertilises their flowers , and another of a particularly tasty kind that is designed only to be eaten . |
| 29 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 30 | Lawless , as well as remarking on the lack of inhibition in throwing jabs , connected this with a more general ‘ relaxed approach ’ , and others concur with this , agreeing that the black sportsman shows a remarkable tendency to bring to his work a resistance to tension . |