Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally phase number one with Cancerians , A rather strange almost mystical day ahead , with thoughts returning from the past . |
| 2 | ‘ It feels rather strange now I 've got my other world back again , I admit . |
| 3 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 4 | Angelica left the train on a stretcher in the dusk under bright station lights , her tomato head half covered by a blanket , and one lifeless hand , with red fingernails and sparkling rings , artistically drooping out of concealment on the side where the train 's passengers were able to look on with fascination . |
| 5 | When they came out of it they often grew crazily rapturous simply at returning to ‘ a world of colour , meadows and flowers and woods … where rain on the roofs sounds like a harmonic music ’ |
| 6 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 7 | Dead right down |
| 8 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 9 | Can can I just add sir o one point I I in my in my preamble I said that we were sometimes able from a local point of view to take into account information locally that perhaps you would n't have got from further afield . |
| 10 | Instead of letting John 's mum do it , consequently he got dead upset so |
| 11 | And though that was where I felt most private often , it was a very private place you see , even at its busiest , and it was busy , I mean it was n't small and quiet , I do n't want you to think that , it was very public . |
| 12 | This is revolutionary technology , perhaps the most far-reaching ever devised . |
| 13 | No , just coming back home to show me the flaming car , and that 's what sa I did n't but I feel dead awful really , but I did n't jump up and down |
| 14 | It 's right right down . |
| 15 | ‘ My head was jolly sore afterwards , ’ Rupert said . |
| 16 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 17 | Most commentators agree that the rapid price acceleration played an important role in generating high inflationary expectations , which remained remarkably resilient even under later conditions of mass unemployment . |
| 18 | ‘ You seem rather shy today , ’ he said as she stood stiffly facing the lake , ignoring him . |
| 19 | ‘ The omens have been rather strong today , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Oh mostly that really , supposedly going to America in February the sixth and the doctor , she said to the doctor what 's the matter and he said you 're really , really run down then he said to her what I suggest you do is to go and buy some cartons of fresh orange juice , a jar of honey and some natural live yoghurt and she 's ate it all , now she 's got diarrhoea ca n't win can ya ? |
| 21 | The Heather he had known on Rhodes was an uncomplicated and instantly likeable young woman : a little gauche perhaps , a little unsure of herself , but essentially only what she might be expected to be . |
| 22 | It is most odd indeed how objects disappear in rooms wherein the only moveable entity is oneself . ’ |
| 23 | It is generally true to say that if the area is predominantly rural then the geographical extent of the restriction can sometimes be greater than if an urban area is under consideration . |
| 24 | The sound is n't the most innovative ever , and the influence of Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5 is obvious . |
| 25 | they 're rather narrow just there no I 'm sorry they 're too narrow they 're really st tight across there . |
| 26 | The station 's first official passenger was the Duke of Kent … who in army uniform today officially opened the described as the most advanced anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | ‘ The world 's most advanced underground . ’ |
| 28 | In the case of Treasury bills it is the government which will be paying — no loss effectively possible there . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that the corporatist literature is important : it is ambitious ; it is sensitive to the tie-up between politics and economics ( in a way which pluralism never was ) ; it deals not just with the process of public policy-making but with the substantive outcomes of that process as well ; and it is keenly alive both to the clashes of interests and to the forces which have tended to hold those clashes in some kind of check . |
| 30 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |