Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judgement , rather settlement , had been effected with speed and secrecy , and begged several questions : Who the controversial compromise ? |
| 2 | Right Chairman , yes , the report 's for information , there are a few things to update , occupancy remains healthy , erm , the working total has fallen slightly over the Christmas recess , but erm , really by ten there . |
| 3 | Sociologists of religion frequently appear inexcusably reductionist to those whom they study . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's most kind of you , sir . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’ |
| 6 | This was mostly afternoon and evening clothes . |
| 7 | She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle . |
| 8 | After reaching the Sahn , the highest of the 50-akce medreses , the scholar may become a 500-akce kadi and thence kazasker . |
| 9 | They 're rather weed , I know my two even . |
| 10 | These books are timeless , not part of the changing whirl of food fashion or trend , rather part of a backbone of information and knowledge without which all cookery books are quite irrelevant . |
| 11 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 12 | The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) . |
| 13 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 14 | Atkinson , cheered by 'keeper Nigel Spink agreeing a new two-year extension to his contract , has called up fit-again striker Cyrille Regis , insisting : ‘ He 's not there to be an ornament . ’ |
| 15 | — FIT-AGAIN striker Andrew Fletcher is set to be recalled to Scarborough 's side for the long trip to Maidstone on Saturday . |
| 16 | That 's a worst case scenario . |
| 17 | The letters appointing him spoke of the ‘ dissensions recently arisen ’ in the duchy of Aquitaine where he was to act ‘ to pacify the said land ’ ( circa stabilimentum terre predicte ) , thereby incurring additional expenses ( which were to be recom-pensed ) at the Paris parlement and in the duchy itself . |
| 18 | I am of course not concerned here with the reliability of the figures themselves but with their use , or rather non-use , by Polybius . |
| 19 | Ah it 's dried off mostly mum . |
| 20 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 21 | Thereby camp may also , either implicitly or directly , interrogate the norm which , according to Jameson , traditional parody assumes . |
| 22 | By now , over 250 volunteers ( mostly university students ) have taken part in our experiments , the duration of which varies from 12 to 22 days . |
| 23 | This , in turn , reveals just how much neutral gas , mostly hydrogen , there is . |
| 24 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 25 | A star is formed when a large amount of gas ( mostly hydrogen ) starts to collapse in on itself due to its gravitational attraction . |
| 26 | Stars are initially formed from gas , mostly hydrogen , and contract under their own gravitational attraction . |
| 27 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's remarkably kind of you to put us up like this , and we 're both very grateful . ’ |
| 29 | But she 'd already started to dissipate the beauty of her voice with various kinds of addiction — narcotics , alcohol and companions who were n't altogether kind to her — and the last ten years of her life ( she died in 1959 ) find the light , drifting delivery of the pre-war years shrivelling into the croak of a haggard ghost . |
| 30 | Another fashion figure of an altogether kind is the exquisitely entertaining and stylish C.Z. Guest . |