Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past .
2 The A one six eight between Dishforth and Thirsk still has the contraflow in place between the A one and the A nineteen and finally just a reminder that er contraflow on the A one at Catterick is causing southbound delays of between five and six miles .
3 In Type II the prevalence of clinical disease is comparatively low and often only a proportion of animals in the group are affected ; mortality in such animals is very high unless early treatment with an anthelmintic effective against both arrested and developing larval stages is instituted .
4 He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved .
5 It deserves a star for its interior alone and maybe even a second for the brilliant horseradish mousse .
6 Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large .
7 The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs .
8 Quite delightful and quite probably a monster hit .
9 Obviously , there are limits to how long options can be kept open and fairly soon a commitment will have to be made .
10 But I 'm getting a bit bad really because I 'm looking forward to doing two wars a year , and if I start looking forward to doing two or even more a year I 'm not going to survive . ’
11 uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened .
12 Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible .
13 However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation .
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