Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those demands that have so far been made have come from Slovakia , the most controversial concerning a fourteenth-century Italian Gothic altar . |
| 2 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 3 | The incident was one of the most memorable from a year that Waggoner spent following the U.S.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 4 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 5 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
| 6 | They seemed to be mostly line-and-wash with an occasional burst of colour , and even when I got close to them I found I had to concentrate to see what they were about . |
| 7 | Its state regiments are well equipped and lavishly uniformed in a mixture of red and blue . |
| 8 | Maggie thought Phoebe did it deliberately ; Phoebe was normally rather well-dressed in a casual sort of way , and had the best fitting proper designer jeans and lovely hand-knitted posh jumpers ; she had plenty of skirts and frequently wore them . |
| 9 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 10 | The point has therefore now been made with three examples that it is usually carbonate facies that are so remarkably persistent in a lateral sense . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you think he looks rather divine as an officer ? ’ |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that the writing is rather sloppy in a pompous sort of way , it seems to me that the whole exercise was not worthwhile . |
| 13 | The change in western Europe from a predominantly rural to a predominantly urban society had other important effects . |
| 14 | The EEG unit electro-encephalogram unit is one of the most advanced in a British children 's hospital . |
| 15 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 16 | The practice , which I gather is fairly widespread in Africa , appears to be effective in warding off anaemia , presumably due to a high iron concentration in the mud . |
| 17 | The broad sense in which I shall be using homophobia is loosely descriptive of a manifest phenomenon : the hatred , fear , and persecution of , the raging at , homosexuality and homosexuals . |
| 18 | She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde . |
| 19 | Established internationals Gord MacKinnon and Pat Palmer represented the national team squad at the CRU 's recent three day planning meeting in Vancouver and were most supportive of a decision to implement fitness testing for all the country 's top players as an ongoing requirement . |
| 20 | Such accidentally created fires are usually most devastating after a long dry period when the organic content of the litter and soil is experiencing moisture deficiency and the presence of dry kindling provides a good fuel supply . |
| 21 | The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin . |
| 22 | The Mk XIV , was the most convincing-looking with a fuselage , windscreen and engine intact . |
| 23 | Not too long ago your company was most pleasant for a while . ’ |
| 24 | I left school a stone overweight while my father was already dead due to a heart attack at the age of 59 . |
| 25 | Unlike the natural sciences , which deal largely in results , the social sciences are rightly concerned for practice , perhaps because results are rarely possible in an exact mathematical sense . |
| 26 | Our task was to persuade teachers that classroom discussion of linguistic terms could be stimulating and creative , even if a long account of children 's talk looked a little strange in an official Report directed to the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | It was ceasing to be overwhelmingly political in a narrow sense and acquiring new dimensions which , even well before the First World War , were clearly destined soon to become very important . |
| 28 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 29 | Because the hypergastrinaemia in H pylori infection is predominantly due to an increase in the antral gastrin form , gastrin heptadecapeptide ( G17 ) , we infused G17 intravenously and determined the effect of eradication of H pylori on acid secretion , parietal cell sensitivity to gastrin , and the metabolic clearance of G17 . |
| 30 | Our guide was a tall , bespectacled chap in his late thirties , looking properly Anglo with a tweed cap , and a muffler around his neck . |