Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be retained purely as a servant , subject to the whims of an above averagely capricious employer with a short memory . |
| 2 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 3 | The distorted modes of communication which the individual has set up within himself , and between self and the outside world , as a result of fearing to express in public form certain wishes and impulses of an infantile polymorphously perverse character , can be unravelled with the analyst 's help . |
| 4 | As these family dramas were played out around Low Birk Hatt farm and the Hauxwell family battled against the twin effects of an overpriced heavily mortgaged farm , and an agricultural depression which presaged the deep national depression of the thirties the other people in Baldersdale coped with their lives . |
| 5 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 6 | Hence CI5 's involvement , although it had been an assignment with an only partially successful outcome . |
| 7 | If a tough , pushy Orc grows fast he will soon come into conflict with an established equally big Orc . |
| 8 | Several American oaks , maples , dogwoods , walnuts , the tulip tree , the tupelo , the amelanchier , and other trees now settled in Europe were also in this catalogue , with an occasional less welcome import , like poison ivy . |
| 9 | ‘ I predict that Western industrialised countries will return to nuclear power as an abundant environmentally benign energy source . |
| 10 | All three Sergeants asked questions simultaneously , the interrogation wending back on itself , crisscrossing through my life in an arbitrary yet efficient way . |
| 11 | The ‘ new ’ BARB collects data from 4435 households , in an increased nationally representative sample set up and administered by RSMB and AGB Research . |
| 12 | To each side of the hearth was a high-backed wicker armchair in an intricate closely woven design fitted with patchwork cushions . |
| 13 | Ludens , now speaking in an angry slightly hysterical voice , said , ‘ No , no ! |
| 14 | Love was something other , to be cultivated in an intense yet innocent fashion , to inspire deeds of gallantry and to transform the knight into a thinking , feeling being rather than one who picked up his sword without any forethought . |
| 15 | If the job fails to satisfy a goal that is important to an individual then that frustration will , over time , affect adversely the behaviour of the person , unless the job is redesigned ( enriched ) such that the person 's goals are met . |
| 16 | While the physically gifted and superhumanly green-fingered Daisy Gamble ( Barbra Streisand ) sings ‘ Hurry , It 's Lovely Up Here ’ , the flowers on the roof of her apartment block , mostly tulips grow at an alarming yet beautiful rate , conveying a sense of freedom brimming over with life . |