Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Consul-General usually steered clear of too direct an involvement in Egyptian policing . |
| 2 | Always smells funny in here just the colour we need is n't it ? |
| 3 | The following morning , Arty was taken by ambulance to the huge Victorian red-brick pile on the edge of town — a massive structure set well back in the fields and surrounded by a high wall to protect the sensibilities of the sane from too close a confrontation with one of society 's more disagreeable problems . |
| 4 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |
| 5 | Indeed many advertisers , fearful of too close a relationship with Oz and It , dismissive — or completely ignorant — of Time Out , but wishing for a way into a market that the then flagging Melody Maker and NME were failing to tap , seemed optimistic about the prospects for a new alternative British music paper . |
| 6 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 7 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 8 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 9 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 10 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
| 11 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 12 | In reality the government 's budget deficit was probably equal to just under a quarter of GDP in 1992 and the budget passed in March could push it up further . |
| 13 | That 's the view of the political pundit , we 'll see if he 's right in just over a week 's time . |
| 14 | And since they could hardly do that in so public a place , these ragged youths half her size who were pressing around her , she was not really afraid . |
| 15 | CHESHAM United have appointed their third manager this season and their fourth in just over a year , following the resignation of Dave Brown . |
| 16 | In the part of town where I live I see strangers who I would call truly beautiful at least once a day . |
| 17 | Hundreds of students have just begun their first term and computers are essential in just about every subject . |
| 18 | Keen that the fruits of his scholarship should be made available to as wide a readership as possible , I have made strenuous efforts to trace Mr Mint . |
| 19 | Evidence based upon population censuses and analysed by Holmans ( 1981 ) indicates that the number of married couples in shared accommodation fell from three-quarters of a million in 1951 to slightly under a quarter of a million in 1971 . |
| 20 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 21 | so far , and then we go on that at least once a week when we 've been shopping |
| 22 | They stayed with Kirsty for just under an hour , and it was a relief to Shiona to see how well she was looking . |
| 23 | It 's the second accident on the new stretch of the M-forty in just over a week . |
| 24 | By his own estimate he has spent £38 million in little over a year in his attempt to do so . |
| 25 | Especially when my own husband has only been dead for just over a week . |
| 26 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 27 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 28 | ‘ Nay , my lord , I am unworthy of so high a calling , ’ was what he said . ’ |
| 29 | All the recipes here use just five ingredients and are ready in well under an hour . |