Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 2 | The project will comprise a review of pertinent research findings--notably from the study of small businesses , urban geography and regional economics--together with an investigation of specific practical initiatives in the area of local business development . |
| 3 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 4 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 5 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 6 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 7 | Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier . |
| 8 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 9 | Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations . |
| 10 | It was nearly eight o'clock of a sunny evening , still light , as light as afternoon , but cool as early June often is . |
| 11 | Tommy spent quite a time delivering the handbills to every house in the town and opened for business at eight o'clock on a Monday morning and closed twelve hours later . |
| 12 | there we go Blondie , Island of Lost Souls , taking us round to eighteen minutes before eight o'clock on a Tuesday night , a Radio Nottingham Sports Special , Notts on the Italia trail tonight . |
| 13 | The formal breakfast at eight o'clock in a high-ceilinged dining room with heavy mahogany sideboards and floor-to-ceiling windows was n't everyone else 's way of life . |
| 14 | The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn . |
| 15 | We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft . |
| 16 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 17 | His stride shortened ; his legs felt leaden ; his breathing , till now perceptible only in a slight flaring of the nostrils , became harsh and ragged , his mouth wide open , his teeth biting desperately at the intangible air . |
| 18 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 19 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 20 | " Life is possible only within a movement which calls the world into question " , he was to note later in Le Cheval de Troie . |
| 21 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 22 | Julian Huxley 's directional component in evolution is made possible only by an increasing subtlety of internal integration of the body and a corresponding increase in the inter-individual integration in societal processes involved in reproduction . |
| 23 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 24 | In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world . |
| 25 | Looking , for instance , at grammatically equivalent substitutions , main is possible only in a , ajar only in b , disappear only in c , and hit only in d . |
| 26 | Orchomenos was the only state in Boiotia other than Thebes which had any natural claim to rule all Boiotia ; Tanagra 's brief attempt was possible only in an unusual period when Thebes after her medism was in temporary discredit . |
| 27 | I think we 've go I think we 've got to get through to the members actually that together as a , we 're gon na be a cohesive force for the benefit of the members . |
| 28 | We would bring all that together in a strategic authority , which would not be dictated to by Whitehall and the mandarins down here . |
| 29 | Eleven o'clock of a hurricane morning , Trent thought wryly . |
| 30 | Even if every child of thirteen was learning algebra at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday , each child would be learning algebra for himself , with the help of his own class teacher . |