Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6 ) There were 1.58 children under the age of 16 for each economically inactive lone mother in 1981 . |
| 2 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , you , ’ he said , patiently , irritably , still with that relentlessly everyday , normative tone , as though this whole discussion were the most ordinary event , the most expected of interchanges . |
| 4 | To Nicholas , the only immediate benefit of that wholly unpleasant discussion was that it shut up both le Grant and Tobie ; and even Astorre , when found and brought to the villa , was unnaturally silent except on matters purely martial . |
| 5 | But besides that wholly justifiable disqualification , two others are sometimes advanced : first , that the form is only suitable for small businesses ; and secondly , that it is not suitable for capital intensive businesses . |
| 6 | There was no room in their streamlined productions for that revealingly individual note — the self justification , the expression of highly personal piety — which had occasionally flashed through earlier charters . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact that your uncle was missing was n't reported to the police until Sunday morning — is n't that rather odd ? ’ |
| 8 | Is n't that rather heroic ? |
| 9 | Q : The readers of Aura might find that rather hypocritical . |
| 10 | Why do so many people want to take a long journey into that rather strange place that is known as Adland . |
| 11 | On that rather unsatisfactory agnostic note matters rested for many years until Don Patinkin published his classic work , Money , Interest and Prices . |
| 12 | Many of the knobs and levers also display that rather nice handbuilt look . |
| 13 | That 's where that rather nice , this is w this is the er the departure platform at . |
| 14 | So is Charles Aught , that rather camp man in advertising , who writes poems and art-criticism , and whose correspondence with his fellow-critic Elwyn West was auctioned at Sotheby 's and fetched £25 . |
| 15 | It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period . |
| 16 | ‘ Was not that rather hasty ? ’ |
| 17 | on that rather delicate level . |
| 18 | ‘ Is n't that rather rash ? |
| 19 | So that 's that that 's that rather awkward item so quite rapidly sorted out , yes . |
| 20 | I find that rather admirable . ’ |
| 21 | It is interesting to note , in passing , that rather similar chaotic deposits and slump topography have now been found at the foot of many present.day continental slopes . |
| 22 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 23 | That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again . |
| 24 | Erm so a lot of our time is done in that rather then in preventive or developmental erm work . |
| 25 | Is not that rather ghoulish ? ’ |
| 26 | But there was no time now to speculate on that rather sinister connection , for Luke Travis was coming towards her with his brisk , certain step . |
| 27 | Detailed observation of Willis over the years , however , and his general ‘ out to lunch ’ demeanour , suggested Dylan to be more a tribute to that rather vacant rabbit of Magic Roundabout fame . |
| 28 | Not once did we get that rather unwilling pursed smile , the sly amused look down her nose . |
| 29 | The success of the Green Movement over the last few years has left that rather uncomfortable question hanging in the air . |
| 30 | After that she needed no invitation and , when he was lying exhausted beside her , she would send him into loud peals of laughter with her spicy , tart wit and skill at mimicry , particularly of that rather stuffy English clerk , Hugh Corbett . |