Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind .
2 And would I have got so much just from a voice ?
3 No — surely they 'd never commit something so dangerous even to a Company Spiderline .
4 I should be much happier here as a schoolteacher , free and honest , in the healthy heart of England .
5 ‘ It 's much better out of a bottle , ’ says a character in The Chalk Garden ( 1956 ) to a servant preparing the salad dressing , encapsulating the post-war world of anti-sensuality in which the gourmets began at Calais .
6 And they 'd let so many in at a time .
7 In this study only 4 out of a total of 174 memories reported were actually related to public events .
8 When the experiment was carried out using phone instructions however , only nine out of a group of 40 obeyed totally .
9 Patients receive an eye drop anaesthetic for the procedure which is only available privately at a cost of £1,300 per eye .
10 In late 1959 less than ten per cent of the expropriable land area had been touched , and only 6,000 out of a potential 150,000 beneficiaries had received their allocations .
11 Phil Neale has more or less bowed out as a player and there is even speculation about whether he might still resurface with another team .
12 Put another way , SR is only valid locally in a frame in free fall , which neatly disconnects it from any gravitational effects .
13 Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier .
14 Well it 's just normal really for a Saturday .
15 She 's in East Africa — not due back for a couple of months .
16 ‘ I 'm not due back for a while , ’ Sanchez said .
17 At Nesseby we found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes , which were all feeding large young .
18 No , it 's not brown enough for a hen .
19 He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it .
20 A draught whipped his bare legs , and he glanced over his shoulder , along the passage ; there was a hole in the little window beside the back door , just large enough for a hand to come through and turn the key in the lock … .
21 It really is not good enough for a spokesman for the official Opposition to come here in spite , without reading the official report by the independent advisory committee .
22 Tyrell ran the March team in 1970 but the car was not good enough for a driver of Stewart 's calibre so Tyrell decided to build and run one under his own name for Stewart .
23 ‘ Getting by 's not good enough in a game like this .
24 Maria 's brilliant smile was for a particularly attentive television camera , but the dreams sparkling in her eyes were uncontrived , as pure delight and ambition triumphed over all else for a moment .
25 Life is not long enough for a faith without meaning .
26 The report published by the Indonesian Government and the action that they subsequently took — for example , against certain military commanders involved in the incident — show that they are not concerned simply with a cover-up .
27 Silverstein called Douglas , who had already read the script , and to Silverstein 's tremendous relief , Kirk said that the part was n't big enough for him as a star , and not small enough for a cameo .
28 phone calls can get forgotten about , you 're not far away as a phone call .
29 Cos his hair 's not thick enough for a comb
30 probably not big enough for a man .
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