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

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1 ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves .
2 For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest .
3 Not dead , only decaying ( rapidly at first then rather slowly in an interesting way ) …
4 And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . ,
7 But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages .
8 He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree .
9 MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage .
10 That she would be a little less like a young woman .
11 Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context .
12 On the other hand , the features which stood out most starkly to a western visitor were the harshness of the regime , the lack of stimulation for long-term prisoners , the absence of welfare provisions , and the exclusion of even minor personal comforts such as the display of family mementos and the pursuit of cell hobbies .
13 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 .
14 One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves .
15 She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic .
16 So right from an early age I was told I was special .
17 My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way .
18 If this were so , the strengthening of the various associations generated by the inhibitory conditioning procedure would proceed only slowly for a pre-exposed stimulus and this effect could well outweigh any advantage that the existence of a stimulus-no event association might bestow .
19 She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers .
20 His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow .
21 ‘ It 's all right for a special occasion .
22 But it 's unerringly steady when you 're pressing on , and lurches slightly less ponderously into a tight bend than does its more sophisticated ( and independently sprung ) 960 24v sister .
23 If punishment does indeed reduce the future incidence of crime , then the pain and unhappiness caused to the offender may be outweighed by the avoidance of unpleasantness to other people in the future — thus making punishment morally right from a utilitarian point of view .
24 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 .
25 John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms .
26 She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively .
27 This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork .
28 He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach .
29 We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene .
30 In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man .
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