Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 2 | Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting . |
| 3 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 4 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
| 5 | It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions . |
| 6 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 7 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 8 | Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan . |
| 9 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 10 | In the preface , the editor of the catalogue makes it clear that only a representative selection of coins is listed . |
| 11 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 12 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 13 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 14 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 15 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 16 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 17 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 18 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 19 | Life may indeed have been nasty , brutal and short a few hundred thousand years ago , but there are those who claim that at least the shortness was a benefit in comparison with modern human existence . |
| 20 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 21 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 22 | But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus . |
| 23 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 24 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 25 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 26 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 27 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 28 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 29 | I use it throughout my work because , used skilfully and imaginatively , it can make any sort of communication more powerful , more exciting and frequently a lot more fun . |
| 30 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |