Example sentences of "of a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINCE 1970 America 's old folks have become richer and richer , mostly because of a steadily increasing flow of federal dollars . |
| 2 | It 's just one horrific aspect of a tremendously suspensful film underpinned by extraordinary performances from Rebecca De Mornay as the mad minder and Annabella Sciorra as the unsuspecting mum . |
| 3 | It is n't easy when you 're in a single room jammed up with a double bed , and the dump is decorated as carelessly as the inside of a rarely used cupboard . |
| 4 | For others the harmony must be a perfect expression of their aesthetic aims , and must therefore be of a uniformly specific quality — delicate or strong , mellifluous or pungent , arid or sweet . |
| 5 | I was the middle-class son of a comfortably well-off Glasgow bookie — I was even educated at George Heriot 's in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 6 | Occasionally situation Z may inspire the creation of a wholly new principle , which then serves as a possible precedent for the future . |
| 7 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 8 | A key post at the Council in the Marches of Wales came into the hands of a wholly untrained man , Fulke Greville , through his friendship with Philip Sidney . |
| 9 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 10 | There was still a role for central economic management , in Medvedev 's view , but it should be of a wholly strategic kind , leaving operational decisions to the enterprises themselves as ‘ socialist commodity producers ’ . |
| 11 | But from this he suggests ‘ that the sexuality of little girls is of a wholly masculine character . ’ |
| 12 | Moreover those units will relentlessly force themselves into the human conscience as being of a wholly desirable nature , that is , good . |
| 13 | The coroner himself conceded that the intervention of a wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance might make the death ‘ unnatural . ’ |
| 14 | The animal 's pupils widened into black marbles at this sudden intrusion of a wholly novel radiance , then narrowed to slits . |
| 15 | While in Schiller the attempt to reestablish ( and perhaps reinterpret ) the function of the chorus never gets very far , in Schelling this concern is abandoned altogether in favour of a wholly individualistic view of the hero , whose very Solitude is the source of his strength and tragic predicament alike . |
| 16 | Their receipt from the firm of business letters with updated letterheading would doubtless be convincing evidence of actual knowledge , sed quaere where the correspondence is of a wholly formal nature ( eg a compliments slip accompanying a cheque in settlement of a bill ) which would not ordinarily be expected to be read carefully by the recipient . |
| 17 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 18 | There are no breaks in it in the sense of special divine interventions ; and while every event is in its own way particular , individual and unique , none is qualitatively of a wholly different kind from all others . |
| 19 | Thus under a contract for sale of goods the seller commits a breach of fundamental term if he delivers goods of a wholly different kind to those contracted for . |
| 20 | Still less has been made of a functionally similar underclass in the United States . |
| 21 | Bit of a blooming sodding disgrace really , in actual fact , eh ? |
| 22 | The cloth marks a threshold , the boundary between the outside and the inside of a temporarily sacred precinct . |
| 23 | But this does not rule out a high response to real wage changes which are thought to be temporary : for example , suppliers of labour may well want to take advantage of a temporarily high real wage by supplying more labour , taking leisure ( that is , supplying less labour ) when the real wage has fallen back . |
| 24 | I was conscious soon after , and for the next few hours was in a state of half-sleeping , half-waking , yet aware of the presence of a pretty young nurse , perhaps Thai or Korean , who alternated between giving me sips of water and jabbing a needle in my bum . |
| 25 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 26 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 27 | Some of the nicer touches are lent to the machine by the inclusion of a pretty hairy caching IDE hard disk controller , which , in the review machine , is complete with 4MB of RAM to cache the IDE hard drive . |
| 28 | Thus while Ibn Battuta was tolerably enamoured of a pretty Greek slave girl he had bought in Ephesus , he wrote that the filthy freedmen of her accursed race were ‘ swine eaters ’ , drinkers of intoxicating liquors and ‘ enemies of Allah ’ . |
| 29 | These goal-seeking and avoiding reactions represent , within an organism no bigger than 0.2 millimetres in length and with no sort of nervous system , the beginnings of a pretty sophisticated range of active behaviours . |
| 30 | Jim Magilton got one for United , but that was the start of a pretty miserable season . |