Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , of course , have your headquarters in Tunbridge Wells , is n't that rather a long way to have much contact with Brighton ? |
| 2 | Of this vast quantity of building which was achieved between 146 B.C. and A.D. 476 only a small fraction exists today and often this is in the best condition in the provinces of the Empire , despite the fact that the examples were generally less magnificent . |
| 3 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 4 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 5 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 6 | At 11 p.m. a terrific barrage commenced . |
| 7 | The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress . |
| 8 | Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse . |
| 9 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 10 | In scores of other towns , on the other hand , the market places have been partly built over , so that one gets a broad main street , a block of buildings down one side and behind that again a narrow street running parallel to the main street . |
| 11 | Before 1772 only a little ale-house stood here , on a sandy waste . |
| 12 | He wanted to tell her he had never stopped loving her , that never a single day had passed without him thinking of her , wanting her in his arms or by his side , sharing the success which life had bestowed on him . |
| 13 | However , a second drive forward is not permissible once a rolling maul becomes stationary . |
| 14 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |