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

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1 Never , perhaps , have I so lived for such a long time together .
2 From workers there 's bitterness that it 's all ended on such a sour note .
3 For months , she admitted later , she had faced the possibility of her son being badly injured against such a highly-rated opponent , but now Lennox was not only the winner but emerged with hardly a mark on his body .
4 Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park .
5 She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault .
6 But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity .
7 If you 're likely to face daemons a daemon-slaying sword is essential ( conveniently , Tyrion comes already equipped with such a mighty weapon . )
8 Our first decision should be whether we want to write a traditional strophic song ( each verse identical in length and metre ) , or music which is not chained to such a rigid form .
9 Suitably inspired by such a religious and historic atmosphere we rambled down the lane for a mile and a half towards Whitesand .
10 It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction .
11 That is far short of a majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha , but with the opposition still technically divided into half a dozen factions , it would make Congress the biggest single party , and President Venkataraman would have to turn to it .
12 Each machine is probably used by half a dozen different people every day .
13 The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally .
14 The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally .
15 Sorry , then , for those gallons of petrol fruitlessly spent in such a barren zone .
16 Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance .
17 Their forced accommodation to the existence of a wide range of non-genetic categories saved them from being solely associated with such a negative approach .
18 This not only serves to give the issues all the appearance of being fundamental and crucial , but also conceals the fact that matters are not so simple as to be accurately captured by such a dualistic portrayal .
19 I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors .
20 Some general explanation is surely needed for such a wide distribution of such a unique facies during a comparatively short period of geological time .
21 That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy .
22 In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself .
23 The first seven frames had never quite pointed to such a convincing victory but once Hendry had forged clear at 6-3 , the writing was on the wall for his Bangkok challenger .
24 Having secured his new gun licence , however , the youth , who was said by the police to be ‘ nightly associated with a gang of Hooligans who undoubtedly used revolvers ’ , had then waltzed into such a commonplace retail outlet as a barber 's shop and purchased a five-chamber revolver .
25 But wage negotiations are very rarely conducted at such a high level of aggregation : wage bargaining is a fragmented , decentralized process .
26 In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure .
27 Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’
28 He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’
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