Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 2 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 3 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 4 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 5 | While somewhere through a dark heaven |
| 6 | You never know , might be to make enough money to take you out somewhere for a decent Christmas do . |
| 7 | The late-fourth century rebuilding at Chedworth , with the use of stones from the nymphaeum , and associated coins up to the House of Theodosius , clearly indicates a continued occupation of the site , presumably as a small farm . |
| 8 | This was a nazi form of greeting that had been popularized by P.J. Ridout of the IFL in 1936 , presumably as a conscious pun on his own initials . |
| 9 | He offended the king in some way and was summarily hanged , appearing since as a shaggy man , wearing a great set of stag 's horns and blowing a trumpet . |
| 10 | Still — she stood back to view her handiwork with a pleased nod — she had n't done too badly for a total amateur , even if she did say so herself . |
| 11 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 12 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 13 | Now if you assume that they were paid somewhere between a half-day allowance and a full-day allowance , you 're probably looking at somewhere up towards fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 14 | The proper approach to development lies , no doubt , somewhere between a slavish attachment to all things foreign and an atavistic distaste for any type of change . |
| 15 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 16 | But , in the Jewishness stakes , sweetheart , the kosher ayatollahs who run this neighbourhood would place you somewhere between a Tibetan lama and the fairy on top of the Christmas tree . |
| 17 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 18 | So science , too , is conducted mostly as a pattern-matching exercise . |
| 19 | It is known locally as a popular place for children to play . |
| 20 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 21 | For instance , observer bias would have occurred in our study if the endoscopist has looked more intensely for a hiatal hernia after noting that oesophagitis was present . |
| 22 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 23 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 24 | This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken . |
| 25 | ‘ The Buzz ’ is a heavy techno track , already being played widely as a white label , from the man currently establishing himself as a major techno start thanks to his live performances as well as recorded releases . |
| 26 | ‘ The Buzz ’ is a heavy techno track , already being played widely as a white label , from the man currently establishing himself as a major techno start thanks to his live performances as well as recorded releases . |
| 27 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 28 | If this were so , the strengthening of the various associations generated by the inhibitory conditioning procedure would proceed only slowly for a pre-exposed stimulus and this effect could well outweigh any advantage that the existence of a stimulus-no event association might bestow . |
| 29 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 30 | Then , in 1954 , as the car passed under what seemed a mediaeval or Renaissance courtyard gate there was Frederica , brooding grimly about a personal failure in a dreamed , unreal competition . |