Example sentences of "with a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David DuBon has had to battle with a notoriously difficult subject , and is not afraid to state the plain facts , such as : ‘ it is no longer possible to determine whether its present form is that of the original piece ’ ( Vol . |
| 2 | A busy man , Johnny Cash , with a notoriously short attention span . |
| 3 | For all that he was an attractive little creature with a sweetly expressive face . |
| 4 | At times it has behaved more like a cancer-prevention than an environmental agency , making such scientifically dubious decisions as wanting to remove asbestos from school buildings and to ban substances with a microscopically small risk of causing cancer . |
| 5 | ‘ Venice is very good at keeping its secrets , ’ he murmured with a maddeningly superior smile . |
| 6 | The small , elderly lady opposite leant forward and poked the aggressor in the thigh with a delicately gloved forefinger . |
| 7 | Miss Mates was carrying a black lacquered tray with a delicately flowered china tea-set on it — Wedgwood , Sally-Anne noted — and a silver teapot . |
| 8 | Tapes cut in and overlaid the unearthly siren-call of the electro-acoustic instrument , and Minerva 's cello answered the melodic tonality with a delicately offhand echo . |
| 9 | A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer . |
| 10 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 11 | As an undergraduate my sympathies were with the Left , with the Republicans in Spain , with the anti-Fascists in Italy and Germany , but always with a nearly corresponding hostility to the extremes of political thought on the other side . |
| 12 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 13 | Feminist attention to popular texts with a predominantly female readership , such as the romance genre , soap operas or magazines , is changing . |
| 14 | Health Board administrators with a predominantly managerial ideology can and do take decisions which profoundly affect patients and staff , including medical staff . |
| 15 | In thanking my right hon. Friend for that answer , may I ask him to have regard to the stresses and strains that already exist in a predominantly Christian European Community and to consider whether they would be increased if we admitted to the Community nations with a predominantly Islamic culture ? |
| 16 | Recruitment of top management appears to be through two circuits , but with a predominantly one-way flow . |
| 17 | Harold Perkin has concluded that ‘ The ground was thus laid in the Victorian commuter age , and to a large extent by the social consequences of commuting itself , for the class politics of the twentieth century , with a predominantly working-class Labour party on the one side and the middle-class led Conservative party on the other . ’ |
| 18 | For example , one practice with a predominantly Asian population had persuaded the hospital to subscribe to Language Line , a telephone interpreting service which is now available to all patients attending the hospital . |
| 19 | In this article I look at differences between the way girls and boys talk about television , using data collected from single-sex groups of seven and nine year olds in a suburban state primary school with a predominantly White and middle-class catchment . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you would help me up on deck ? ’ she ventured expectantly , adding with a bewitchingly brief smile , ‘ I 'd hoped to be alone for a while . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you being rather melodramatic ? ’ he said in a deep , cultured voice with a deceptively lazy lilt to it . |
| 22 | For many of these theories computational systems have been developed using very small lexicons that have been sanitised of ambiguity and dealing with a conveniently simple set of grammatical constructions . |
| 23 | It is also informed with a deliciously perverse wit . |
| 24 | Johnny was regarding her now with a singularly unpleasant smile . |
| 25 | York 's fly half Andy Brown provided a cracking start , succeeding with two out of three penalties in the first eight minutes , Novos ' Richard Calman reducing the arrears with a hotly disputed penalty which passed nearly a yard wide of the target . |
| 26 | A hauntingly beautiful woman with no apparent past , but with a secretly burning passion for revenge … |
| 27 | With a closely guarded guest list of just eight — four of whom remain unidentified despite intense investigations — the marriage was being staged under the attentive gaze of their jailers . |
| 28 | Scott 's letter was long , rambling and almost cringing in tone ; nevertheless , Palmerston read it and replied five days later with a not unfriendly letter in his own hand . |
| 29 | Another essential ingredient of our diet is fibre , the importance of which is to provide bulk to keep our gastro-intestinal tracts working satisfactorily and to provide nourishment for the beneficial bacteria which , in health , inhabit our large intestines and supply us with a not inconsiderable proportion of our daily vitamin requirements . |
| 30 | ( The aircraft , from e(F)/121 , got back to Sicily in damaged condition and with a mortally wounded gunner . ) |