Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I also know that you spent a summer on rather a long walk . |
| 2 | To some extent it is fair to ask who is the play 's author : the writer , the company or the director producing the play , or perhaps most properly a collaboration between these three ? |
| 3 | We will , therefore , focus on only a few aspects , namely : primary insider trading , secondary insider trading ( tippee trading ) , tipping , and counselling and procuring others to commit an offence under the Act . |
| 4 | The corollary is obvious : a printing office employing women at low wages to do straight setting could dispense with a number of ordinary linesmen , keeping on only a highly skilled minority of men at rather above normal wages to " service " the type set up by the women . |
| 5 | In sum , as societies become industrialized , so the family loses its range of functions and comes to concentrate on only a few . |
| 6 | Most early red-figure appears on only a few shapes : cups , and pots like the one-piece amphora ( figs. 86–7 ) , in which much of the pot was traditionally black and the extension of that to the background of the picture was an easy step and one which integrates the picture more fully with the pot . |
| 7 | Typically , councillors are part-time and serve on only a few committees . |
| 8 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 9 | He said the planned job cuts did not affect RMT members and the pay cuts were effectively only a withdrawal of overtime . |
| 10 | Anglers Mail columnist Frank Barlow ( Wotsits Tackle ) drew right opposite a pub but some bites on stick float and maggots kept him rooted to his box and he finished runner-up with 11–7–0 of grayling . |
| 11 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
| 12 | ‘ The easiest thing to do would be to piecemeal together a career of some commentating , corporation outings , being a spokesperson , doing a little bit of the tennis politics , doing some coaching for the USTA . |
| 13 | Eventually as the rapids calm down I 'm swept to the river bank , exhausted , shaking , but mercifully only a little battered . |
| 14 | While most obviously a reaction to the coalescence of the right , it was also a reaction against the establishment in north Korea on 14 February of the Interim People 's Committee under the leadership of Kim Il Sung . |
| 15 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
| 16 | ‘ I was surprised at Steve , ’ said Dick , after watching the world junior champion clear only a paltry 2.05 metres on Sunday compared to double European Cup winner Grant 's 2.25 . |
| 17 | So if you take the first one immediately before you go to bed , if your blood pressure does go down rather a lot , it does n't matter cos you 're lying down , you 'll |
| 18 | A golf course is only rarely a paying proposition in itself : the real gain in value comes from obtaining planning permission to build in open countryside . |
| 19 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 20 | All these materials are water-soluble , but this is only rarely a limitation , because intense IR absorption by H 2 O itself makes it very difficult to use IR spectroscopy to study aqueous systems . |
| 21 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |
| 22 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
| 23 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 24 | Consequently the cadmium red light and the droplets of gold fused into the Renaissance gold where they fell upon it in rather a pleasing manner . |
| 25 | But the tendency of such an argument is in the direction of complete relativism , or an entirely arbitrary nominalism , of the type represented by Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking-glass : " " When I use a word " , Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone , " it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more or less . " " |
| 26 | In sum the archaeological evidence confirms in rather a striking manner the impression conveyed by writers who held to the view that ivory connoted luxury and in itself constituted a treasure in much the same sense as gold , silver and precious stones . |
| 27 | He struck , and reeled in rather a good perch . |
| 28 | No doubt because of his strictures on Hardy in After Strange Gods , and because he found Hardy 's view of life personally antipathetic — and when Eliot disliked a writer , as he disliked Aldous Huxley ( i.e. the work , not the man ) , and as he disliked Addison , and above all Goethe , his antipathy was intense and difficult to budge — he reacted in rather a lukewarm manner . |
| 29 | Rose swallowed and came out with it in rather a rush . |
| 30 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |