Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats . |
| 2 | I always think of delphiniums as having blooms right the way up the stalk . |
| 3 | On the second day of the trail the trial rather the prosecution said that in interviews with the police the pair had demonstrated a fluent capacity to tell lies . |
| 4 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 5 | You have to have all those ingredients and then you must drive at the top of your ability and sustain that level right the way through the Championship . |
| 6 | communism rather a , a weak theory does n't it ? |
| 7 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 8 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 9 | Confusion is not always avoided : the two wheels here are probably near and far wheels of a two-wheeled chariot , but in some cases rather the two near wheels of a four-wheeled cart . |
| 10 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 11 | Cos he 'll have to say mass somewhere every day |
| 12 | Consequently , those British cities and towns which have large numbers of people using injectable drugs may be among the first to experience full-blown AIDS/HIV epidemics , not just because needle-sharing can spread the virus between drug users , but because infected drug users-particularly the young and single-are likely to spread the virus to the wider population through sexual contacts . |
| 13 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 14 | Tolkien furthermore no doubt noted that Malory 's insensitivity in this respect ( a common thing in medieval writers ) had not led necessarily to failure . |
| 15 | It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building . |
| 16 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 17 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 18 | This could allow the court , as in the Goodwin case , to order a reporter to reveal his notes so the company whose information was leaked would know who to sue . |
| 19 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 20 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 21 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 22 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 23 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 24 | All the barracks were demolished , leaving within the defences only the granaries , now enclosed inside their own compound , the headquarters building and the commander 's house . |
| 25 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 26 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 27 | He , he was thrilled because he he got er , his name on the board so the head |
| 28 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 29 | In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young . |
| 30 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |