Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident was one of the most memorable from a year that Waggoner spent following the U.S.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 2 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
| 3 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 4 | Public sector borrowing is very highly inflationary in a recession and you should n't raise taxes if your underlying PSBR ( Public Sector Borrowing Rate ) is OK . |
| 5 | Observe , for instance , the ungrammaticality of ( 2 ) , and , while ( 3 ) is acceptable , it is only acceptable with an interpretation that bears no systematic relation to the sentence in ( 1 ) : ( 2 ) *how does muzak drive them ? ( 3 ) how will the mixture turn the buttons ? |
| 6 | Unionists were only interested in a deal that would make Lloyd George 's capture public . |
| 7 | The elvish song is only analogous to a hymn as Gandalf is analogous to an angel ; Elbereth too is unlike ( say ) the Holy Ghost in remaining visible , to elves , and rememberable as a being by those elves like Galadriel who have been across the Sea and met her . |
| 8 | ‘ It was extremely painful for a while but the doctor says there is little risk of permanent damage . ’ |
| 9 | Did I ever do anything so wrong as a child that I should deserve to suffer for evermore ? |
| 10 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
| 11 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 12 | ‘ Everything 's going fine , ’ the girl said , not quite so much of a girl when Diane looked at her close-to . |
| 13 | The attention is not so much of a problem when the dogs are puppies as the idea is to train the dog to not be afraid of people , but when this happens to a fully trained guide dog accompanying a blind person it can cause problems . |
| 14 | While he did not exactly oppose this suggestion , he added , somewhat enigmatically , that he believed Liza 's trouble was due to circumstances quite beyond her control and that she needed the help not so much of a specialist but a sympathetic friend personally acquainted with her predicament . |
| 15 | so that I could actually enjoy it more this time because it 's in , so much of a blur when you get married the first time that you 're caught up with it and you do n't really see what happens , I would like to get married all over again . |
| 16 | I have to explain to everyone that I 'm not so much of a monomaniac as this collection makes me seem , but when my old man died , thirty years ago , he left me his paintings . |
| 17 | Before I start it is worth pointing out that this problem is largely restricted to the users of the Apple Macintosh — PC-based software running under either Windows or GEM seems to be rather better behaved although , in the case of the former , installing downloadable fonts is so much of a pain that many people simply do n't bother anyway ! |
| 18 | Does the change of carburettor give so much of an advantage that the expense of about £70 is worthwhile ? |
| 19 | An act of defiance was her only defence , not so much against a world that suddenly seemed black and horrible to her , but against the shame in her own bewildered mind . |
| 20 | Yet it 's arguable that the Germanic qualities that are prevalent in Wand 's conception are entirely appropriate to a composition that is so closely modelled on Bach 's Brandenburg Concertos . |
| 21 | To the Queen , Cranmer was not only detestable as a heretic but odious as the man who had arranged her mother 's divorce ; he had however been legally consecrated as Archbishop by order of the pope , and only the Pope could hand him over for judgement and punishment by the civil power . |
| 22 | There is no experience so uncomfortable for a nation as to run headon unawares into an axiom . |
| 23 | How much nicer for a family or friends or even just oneself to sit at a table set for a meal ! |
| 24 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 25 | What could a lorry be carrying that its load was so valuable to a thief as to make Hatton 's a feasible reward ? |
| 26 | The conjunction of the two gives us such singers of whom there occur perhaps half-a-dozen in a generation or even in a century . |
| 27 | John was so sure of an encore that he rehearsed the girls in a burlesque version of a quartet from the Gaiety Theatre in London , and in a later scene they performed a coconut dance — a long-established feature of theatre and street dance of the time . |
| 28 | My second term after Christmas was much smoother as a result but it still held problems . |
| 29 | Western observers argued that Gorbachev 's stronger power base and his age ( 58 compared with Khrushchev 's 70 in 1964 ) made him less vulnerable to a coup than his reformist predecessor . |
| 30 | The reverse tends to be the case with Ventura which is both extremely complex as a program and is further hampered by a user interface that is not exactly a model of the way things happen in the real world . |