Example sentences of "[is] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said ‘ Yes he s a very good little goalscorer — hell always score goals — Wimbledon know he s the man they have to look after ’ . |
| 2 | That 's a jolly nice present . |
| 3 | There were queues for the meeting , many could not get in , war-songs of the Liberal party were sung , they greeted the speaker with ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ . |
| 4 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 5 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 6 | For the dessert the waiters fetched in a beautiful cake aglow with candles and everybody sang , ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ . |
| 7 | For he 's a jolly good Weller |
| 8 | I mean it 's a jolly good idea it really is |
| 9 | That 's a jolly good idea . |
| 10 | FOR SHE 'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW |
| 11 | Equals something that 's incredibly expensive and it 's a jolly good idea for other people . |
| 12 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 13 | I think that 's a jolly good idea . |
| 14 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 15 | It does n't prove that it 's always true , but it 's a jolly good case where it clearly , I think , is true . |
| 16 | Now , that in a sense , would have fitted much much better into the Playhouse , and had we been open at that stage , there 's a jolly good chance that that show would have actually come to us rather than going there . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 18 | yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top . |
| 19 | As this is n't actually a direct film licence I wo n't dwell on it for too long ; just long enough to warn you that it 's a particularly poor platform product , with the only good feature being that the Amiga version was a lot worse . |
| 20 | It must be said that the Brooklyn Beer is talking here — it 's a particularly dark and mysterious brew . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's a particularly nasty thing to say , but maybe I should have expected it of you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a particularly nice one . ’ |
| 23 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 24 | And that 's a particularly praiseworthy feat when you consider the set of parts the Limited boasts . |
| 25 | Nothing : that 's a particularly poignant kind of pain . |
| 26 | So it 's a particularly wonderful thing for us . |
| 27 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to laugh at myself because that 's a particularly difficult song to pull off . |
| 29 | It 's a blummin beautiful colour — all sort of black with bits of brown in it , and sometimes , in the sun , it looks sort of blue . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |