Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergei and Anton , from Chernobyl , too shy perhaps to speak even a few words in their own language . |
| 2 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 3 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 4 | This usually requires quite a lot of practice but is invaluable once it has been mastered . |
| 5 | Alternatives to this usually provide only a palliative for the rural transport problem . |
| 6 | Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 . |
| 7 | Where the groups are of similar social and economic level with no particular dislike for each other , the supplanting of one group by another usually involves only a minimum of friction . |
| 8 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 9 | As this now forms quite a substantial part of our invoice ( £900 last year ) would you please try to publicise us as much as possible . |
| 10 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 11 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 12 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 13 | It flirts with the EEC and the European Free Trade Association , but membership of either still seems more a fantasy than a real option . |
| 14 | These usually make quite a small pool and can frequently be purchased from department stores as well as from garden centres and water-gardening specialists . |
| 15 | ‘ That probably explains quite a lot of it ! |
| 16 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 17 | The Labour party is now divided between reformers and abolitionists , the latter now numbering about a quarter of all Labour MPs . |
| 18 | A total of 34 farms had no assistance from wives whilst on two farms there was a daughter working on the farm in addition to the wife , though the latter now did only a limited amount of farm work . |
| 19 | Moreover , rather than simply reflecting a stronger relationship between risk and memory at higher levels of risk , the relationship visible in Figure 4.6 actually has both a negative and a positive component . |
| 20 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 21 | That immediately excludes about a quarter of our youngsters on the dole , because they have never been trained . |
| 22 | The fact we were first in meant quite a lot . |
| 23 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 24 | Their increasing interest in the subject actually led to the pair 's first ever meeting just a year ago . |
| 25 | Space available here permits only a summary of the main points of Project 2000 . |
| 26 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 27 | Sour Ltd bought 40% of the Ordinary Shares of Crowt Ltd many years ago , when the capital structure of Crowt Ltd consisted of 200,000 Ordinary Shares of £0.50 each fully paid less a debit balance of £5,000 on Profit and Loss Account , its only reserve . |
| 28 | Now the consensus among gerontologists is that those who survive into their sixties mostly retain quite a high degree of fitness into their mid-seventies . |
| 29 | Surprising though cause normally a place like that can need a car |
| 30 | Although Reg 20 obviously contemplated primarily an actual employer and employee , it was clear that , having regard to the statutory scheme as a whole , Reg 20 was intended to have a general application . |