Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 2 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 3 | This was Cultra , where an introduction was de rigueur before so much as a cocktail could be taken . |
| 4 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 5 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 6 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 7 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 8 | There is usually little difficulty in establishing a good business reason , since without it it is highly unlikely that a company would wish to relocate . |
| 9 | Besides , it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim 's funeral . |
| 10 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 11 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 12 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 13 | I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. , |
| 14 | Eddington thought it was simply not possible that a star could collapse to a point . |
| 15 | For if the general shape , the location , and the motion of objects can be computed in a low-level , autonomous fashion , then it is not impossible that a kingfisher may possess comparable perceptual mechanisms capable of computing the depth of a fish in water . |
| 16 | Organisations are reassessing their priorities , says Price Waterhouse consultant Nick Cherrie , and , if they are not convinced that a project can offer a quantifiable and speedy payback , they are likely to shelve it . |
| 17 | There is a little mark , only just larger than a needle might have made , under her left breast . ’ |
| 18 | The division is not watertight since a project may be relevant to more than one area of research and , indeed there are overlapping themes and issues between many of the individual projects . |
| 19 | It is not inconceivable that a government would wish to render all strikes criminal . |
| 20 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 21 | These same factors might also make it more likely that a person will experience the sorts of events to which they will be vulnerable . |
| 22 | Anything that makes it more likely that a child will behave in a particular way . |
| 23 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 24 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 25 | It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee . |
| 26 | It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns . |
| 27 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 28 | A language is said to be recursively enumerable if a program could be written that would print out each sentence of the language . |
| 29 | Valerie Howarth , executive director of ChildLine , said : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that a judge should suggest that a child is responsible for sexual abuse perpetrated upon her . ’ |
| 30 | Across in Hong Kong the marine department raises a single beacon on a flagpole on Green Island , the No. 1 signal : all Hong Kong is now formally aware that a typhoon may be forming within 500 miles . |