Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 2 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 3 | But , back in England , The Smiths felt unsettled and just a little paranoid . |
| 4 | If he fails to do this , we can only ask him to take another and perhaps a more careful look at our experiment , and think again . |
| 5 | " She 's forgetful and sometimes a little difficult , but she still does the garden and she did all the cooking right up to your aunt 's death . " |
| 6 | A Labour administration developed a planning system which made government priorities clearer and thereby a more important consideration in the minds of local decision-makers . |
| 7 | But when I needed a breath of air , or wished to explore Reine , and was out of the attic for an hour or so , leaving him alone there , he became depressed and even a little disagreeable . |
| 8 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 9 | Frank is still just 21 and why a very talented young player ca n't be in the clubs future plans i ca n't understand … |
| 10 | She looked slightly unamused and not a little worried . |
| 11 | A smile curled across his lips , masculine and just a little smug . |
| 12 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 13 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
| 14 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 15 | Boyd began to feel better and not a little smug . |
| 16 | After days of near-solitude Paige found the barrage of questions bewildering and not a little alarming . |
| 17 | We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals . |
| 18 | One does something on the spur of the moment that is trivial and perhaps a little silly , then when that action is caught up in … in a tragic event , one feels quite foolish telling of it . ’ |
| 19 | He made himself a cup of coffee and then , feeling deflated and not a little depressed , went to bed . |
| 20 | Her movements as she set the inverted cups upright on their saucers and manipulated milk jug , teapot and hot water jug were precise and just a little fussy . |
| 21 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 22 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 23 | It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured . |