Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a poll of Anglican Clergy undertaken in 1864 only 40% expressed the view that the damned would suffer everlasting torment ; it may be assumed that a poll of laity would have disclosed a substantially lower percentage.ii . |
| 2 | Malcolm had designed a very nice women 's mac . |
| 3 | Suicide and anorexia are by no means mutually exclusive phenomena , but in the typical case of primary anorexia nervosa suicide is simply not a factor , except perhaps when depression has won a particularly resounding victory , and the shame of defeat becomes unbearable . |
| 4 | The Government has won a very important victory . |
| 5 | The Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) , which had won a far smaller representation in the Országgyülés than it had hoped , had campaigned for a referendum on the issue ( in an attempt to avoid indirect election within the legislature ) , which was held on July 29 . |
| 6 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 7 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 8 | Not many ticks had been added to our bird list , but we 'd earned a very fine tick for our lizard list ! |
| 9 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 10 | Sensible and necessary price increases none the less attracted a predictably irresponsible press reaction , with Conservative newspapers bearing anti-nationalisation headlines such as ‘ You own the electricity industry — AND UP GO THE PRICES ’ . |
| 11 | Here are located a disproportionately large slice of the nation 's ‘ sunrise industries ’ . |
| 12 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 13 | Kenya has been the least affected , because it had never occupied a strategically important corner of a continent that had largely been ignored in the bipolar world of the superpowers . |
| 14 | For many years teachers had occupied a somewhat ambiguous position . |
| 15 | The Puritans — who have sometimes been given the useful alternative title ‘ the hotter sort of Protestants ’ and are now increasingly referred to by historians as ‘ the godly ’ — did not necessarily uphold different beliefs from the moderates , but their religious activities generally occupied a far greater proportion of their time and energy . |
| 16 | With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company . |
| 17 | Liquids can only be compressed a very small amount and then only under high pressures . |
| 18 | To the CBI 's worries about the future of the inner city is added a very real concern that business services may be placed high on the list for cuts by budget-chopping local authorities . |
| 19 | With growing success has also come a more informed understanding of the quality of life . |
| 20 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 21 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 22 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 23 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 24 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
| 25 | Cotter seems to have enjoyed a fitfully co-operative relationship with Wilson until 1921 , when the NSFU seceded from the National Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 26 | Since the late 1970s both have enjoyed a more generous helping of autonomy than any other Spanish region . |
| 27 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 28 | Ever since the opening of this exclusive holiday complex in 1970 , Citalia has enjoyed a very special relationship with the Forte Hotel Village , ensuring that now , over 20 years on , no other tour operator has the same knowledge and experience of the Village as we do . |
| 29 | The agricultural sector has continued to be both the supporter and beneficiary of urban and industrial development , and the rural population has enjoyed a very considerable prosperity in the years since 1947 . |
| 30 | Having enjoyed a very tasty breakfast , he feels good and returns to his room to collect his luggage . |