Example sentences of "[adj] and [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 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
11 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
12 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |