Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will do it carefully ? ’ he added , his tone sounding suddenly a little dangerous , and Maggie stopped as she reached the door . |
| 2 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 3 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Apparently a physically accurate copy of bass playing 's Big Daddy . |
| 7 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Course , as Derek says , his mate is basically a very decent bloke . |
| 13 | It 's basically a very powerful anaesthetic . |
| 14 | I 'm basically a very private person , but I 'd probably tell Pete things that I would n't tell anyone else . |
| 15 | We look forward to a long a mutually successful relationship ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ John is naturally a very good-humoured , high-spirited person to be with . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You are merely a little anxious — perhaps you have a problem on your mind , some emotional conflict ? |
| 23 | Although Lawrence 's relationship with Feisal was close , the film does not portray its hero as homosexual , merely a little strange . |
| 24 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 25 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 26 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 27 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 28 | There are many different causes of uncertainty and those which are explicitly due to GIS-based manipulations of geographic information are merely a more recent problem . |
| 29 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 30 | There may be merely a less direct link . |