Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 2 | He did n't feel this so strongly when a corpse was far advanced in decay . |
| 3 | They seem to come to terms with the reality of this much easier than a lot of other girls . |
| 4 | A weak sun was about to rise , turning the darkness to a dusty grey : their horses plodded along the frozen track , both riders taking special care against the potholes , some as deep as a man , which could bring down and even kill both the unwary rider and his horse . |
| 5 | Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven . |
| 6 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 7 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 8 | It is a scene which seemed unimaginable as recently as a week ago for Branislav and Bilijana Markovic . |