Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 2 | Carp and bream are among the most sought-after and a special target for poachers . |
| 3 | Even if it eventually transpires that the Lorenz equations do not satisfy the conditions necessary to justify the rigorous analysis ( but see { 33 } ) , it is none the less true that a great many ( infinitely many ) homoclinic orbits do occur in the system though perhaps not distributed densely through all r-intervals . |
| 4 | It was the more attractive because a general election was imminent and Balfour , at least , hoped to lose it , thus transferring the burden to the Liberals . |
| 5 | This makes it all the more vital that a proper understanding of the hydro-dynamic relationships at work in the marine environment is gained . |
| 6 | This makes it all the more vital that a proper understanding of the hydro-dynamic relationships at work in the marine environment is gained . |
| 7 | My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head . |
| 8 | It was , therefore , a little surprising that a Special Commission of the Hague Conference in April 1989 took a rather conservative position on the matter . |
| 9 | This is not supposed to be a travelogue , and I can see from your faces that you want a little more than a cheery jaunt … |
| 10 | There is none of the variety which O'Brian provides through the intimate or casual conversations of Aubrey and Maturin : although circumstances allow Hornblower a little more than a restricted relationship with his loyal and devoted lieutenant Bush , it is never a Personal friendship . |
| 11 | I will be following their progress with a little more than a passing interest . |
| 12 | This inevitably means that a helicopter set will cost a little more than a basic aircraft set which needs no more than four channels . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not in the habit of seducing drunken teenagers ; I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober . |
| 14 | It is enough to say that , especially after 1529 , Parliament became a more dynamic and a still less dispensable part of English government than it had been before . |
| 15 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
| 16 | It was widely believed that City were no more guilty than a great many other clubs keen to do well in the emergency competitions . |
| 17 | For this reason , when M. Oswald and J. Erwin removed the dominant male from a troop the amount of fighting among the remaining pigtails went up ( Figure 7.4 ) ; the effect is not simply due to the removal of an individual , because no consistent increase in aggression followed the removal of either a relatively dominant or a low-ranking female . |
| 18 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 19 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |