Example sentences of "[prep] i a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JC : Oh yes , that was for me a very great joy . |
| 2 | I took with me a very young airman from the engineering wing and I understood that it was his first flight . |
| 3 | I know it 's there , but I thought that John struck with me a very powerful note , when he said in his conference speech , I should share these things first in private . |
| 4 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 5 | Now that , from the preface , seems to me a pretty clear statement of authorial intent , and the impression 's reinforced as Kurt continues : |
| 6 | Mr Maclean said the fact that MPs visiting Sellafield were not informed of the leak ‘ would seem to me a rather extraordinary discourtesy ’ . |
| 7 | My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all . |
| 8 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 9 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 10 | The candle of hope is to me a more satisfactory symbol than a sickly stanza . |
| 11 | ‘ And that seems to me a very uncharacteristic thing for you to say , ’ Willoughby said firmly . |
| 12 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 13 | It seems to me a very reasonable conclusion . |
| 14 | Seems to me a very reasonable conclusion , I mean you can redress it up in Freudian terms and say their conscious did it , which is really very similar thing to say , I mean the unconscious becomes a sort of god in that case . |
| 15 | This seems to me a very sound argument ; though I do wonder to how many cases of literary mistake it actually applies . |
| 16 | That seemed to me a very glamorous job . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 18 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 19 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 20 | Sue , that does seem to me a very different issue from wages for housework . |
| 21 | is regarded as being essentially something which is neutral , which always seems to me a very wrong thing to say , I I 'm sure it 's quite incorrect . |
| 22 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 23 | It seems to me a perfectly simple procedure . |
| 24 | This seemed to me a perfectly reasonable statement , but for some reason it set Nigel off laughing . |
| 25 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 26 | And that seems to me a fairly fundamental shift in the regional balance of argument and need . |
| 27 | ‘ It seemed to me a fairly routine enquiry . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly , there stood beside me a very tall figure , six foot six or more , bearded and misty-white in appearance . |