Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , Brian noticed , suddenly a little like the old Celia , outgoing , in command . |
| 2 | You will do it carefully ? ’ he added , his tone sounding suddenly a little dangerous , and Maggie stopped as she reached the door . |
| 3 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 4 | And , while she was suddenly a little mesmerised to see a return of that charm , ‘ You mentioned to my secretary yesterday that you were hoping to see something of my country , ’ he reminded her . |
| 5 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 6 | The DCSL ( who , interestingly enough , was an active member of the library committee throughout the period of the project ) reports its beginnings in : what was very much a very small group in the school … a certain group of people who were keen for something like this to happen … |
| 7 | Under the urban direction of Radio 4 broadcaster John Ebdon — he of the ‘ distinctive dark-brown voice ’ according , that is , to the planetarium 's press handout — the London Planetarium is very much a peculiarly British institution . |
| 8 | In the semi-finals Miss Lockhart , very much a hard hitting baseline player , went on to defeat No. 3 seed Lindsay Nimmo in a very close battle , while Nina Topper defeated Maggie Laughton 7–5 6–2 . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems has a deal going with another Russian concern , this one operating under the improbable name Elvis+ : seems they 've cut some kind of technology licence and co-development pact for wireless network communications technology to be used in Sun 's nomadic computing strategy ; Elvis is apparently a privately held company run by one Alexander Galitsky , who by repute was involved in the Soviet space programme , but all should be clear when the pair go public March 16 . |
| 10 | Apparently a physically accurate copy of bass playing 's Big Daddy . |
| 11 | the winning mole then shot off leaving the other one apparently a little dazed . |
| 12 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 13 | Schmidt 's main interest is in a highly focused peer group norm , which is apparently a linguistically mixed code possessing characteristics both of Dyirbal and of English . |
| 14 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 15 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 16 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 17 | It also does n't actually really mention Estella , so it is basically a rather bleak ending for Pip as he does n't get what he really wanted . |
| 18 | And what he 's saying is that his ‘ Number One ’ guitar , the one this Fender reissue is modelled upon , was basically a cobbled-together rat guitar . |
| 19 | Course , as Derek says , his mate is basically a very decent bloke . |
| 20 | It 's basically a very powerful anaesthetic . |
| 21 | I 'm basically a very private person , but I 'd probably tell Pete things that I would n't tell anyone else . |
| 22 | The lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition , and for a state the size of California it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size . |
| 23 | We look forward to a long a mutually successful relationship ’ . |
| 24 | Rose , on the other hand , seemed to prefer the company of the dancing girls , especially a little Milwaukee German-speaking dancer called Gerda . |
| 25 | Some posts exist attached to a particular secondary school , especially a very large comprehensive , but most A-V technicians are appointed to a local authority centre , or work in further or higher education . |
| 26 | The casual and amateurish character of much British diplomacy in particular , even in the eighteenth centry , is reflected in the fact that when an appointment , especially a relatively minor one , fell vacant without any suitable new holder of it being immediately available , it was sometimes filled merely by a casual volunteer . |
| 27 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 28 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 29 | ‘ John is naturally a very good-humoured , high-spirited person to be with . |
| 30 | Pricing may well be a critical factor in returns to farmers and to decision-making about extension of cultivation , and precise agronomic practices with direct implications for soil erosion , and yet prices of foodstuffs for urban-based elites are naturally a highly sensitive political issue . |