Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not dead , only decaying ( rapidly at first then rather slowly in an interesting way ) … |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 3 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 4 | ‘ So right from an early age I was told I was special . |
| 5 | The politicians and officials who expressed public criticism of their work or brought pressure to bear , for whatever reason , did so mostly from an urban standpoint . |
| 6 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
| 7 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 8 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 9 | Hankin added : ‘ I think fans have waited long enough for an outstanding performance at home . |
| 10 | So much for an early start . |
| 11 | If religious example , and to a lesser extent philosophical theory , can influence our moral decisions , then that an action is legal or illegal will probably have even greater significance ; less so for an old lag , more so for a judge . |
| 12 | In retrospect it seems remarkable that economic policy should have paid lip service for so long to an untested hypothesis . |
| 13 | As Cole records , it settled down finally into an agricultural colony of individually owned and worked farms . |
| 14 | Especially not on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand , a price lower than this would hasten the decay of the falling firms , and slacken the growth of the rising firms ; and on the whole diminish production : and a rise or fall of price would affect in like manner though perhaps not in an equal degree those great joint-stock companies which often stagnate , but seldom die . |
| 16 | A sign to Venezuela which points somewhat desperately towards an empty plot at dawn proudly signals the completed metal pavilion only 13 hours later . |
| 17 | It pulls up and rounds out the corners of its mouth , and chomps its teeth together rapidly in an obsequious manner , as if it is saying : ‘ Do n't hurt me , I 'm only a baby ! ’ |
| 18 | He put the pump-action down carefully on an oiled gun bag lying on the gravel . |
| 19 | One possible reason for this relationship between education and culture is brought out especially clearly in an earlier article by Bourdieu ( 1968 ) . |
| 20 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | I have spoken so far in an ordinary way of episodes of consciousness and of experiences , occasionally of modes and states of consciousness , and also of sensations , moods , perceptions , desires , thoughts , intending , deciding , and so on . |
| 22 | Other evangelicals , perhaps particularly from an Anglo-Saxon tradition , may be less consistent , speaking also of what is found in ‘ nature ’ . |
| 23 | Rugby is identified so strongly as an Afrikaner sport by the black majority that there appears little doubt that it will become a political football . |
| 24 | Suddenly , the pole thumped so hard into an unseen object it almost dislodged Maggie . |
| 25 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 26 | I have had in my mind recently the image of a great bridge , how the pillars rise up and sweep down again with an immense force and weight . |
| 27 | Thereafter the Beco Chapel closed and was used only occasionally by an unlicensed chaplain until its final closure in 1893 — when six pieces of gilded silver plate were returned to the English Church . |
| 28 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 29 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 30 | In the middle to late 1980s that led not only to an unprecedented increase in investment in terms of value , but to a sharp increase in the quality of that investment . |