Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energy generated from running upstairs and laughing with Stella in distant Florence flowed over into the impulse to ring , in turn , her own mother : a pointless act , but one that nevertheless in the context seemed pious , necessary , propitiatory , and a gesture at least towards her sister , who bore so much heavier a filial burden , who would ( in theory at least ) be pleased to know that Liz had remembered . |
| 2 | In those countries where activity is much more sparse a national approach is usually necessary in order to stimulate more work or provide models of good programmes etc . |
| 3 | Her arm was like this only ever such a little hand and if you , she used to go and it just sort of reached your earhole when she was walking past you and if you were talking in class she 'd go . |
| 4 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |
| 5 | There are exceptions , but the fact that information is held in confidence is not as such a sufficient reason for exemption . |
| 6 | It 's a perky companion on the open road too , although not as enjoyable a driving companion as would a Peugeot 205 or a Citroen AX . |
| 7 | But without Ceauşescu 's discretion — Bucharest was not as leaky a diplomatic centre as Washington — the American President would not have been able to achieve the one great success of his presidency , the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt . |
| 8 | mother and I hope father and I will be around to want to pick up what we can to help you 've got ta start thinking about standing on your own feet , you know , because admittedly I er I , I , I could turn out to be not as bad a financial state as I anticipated but I never was stinking rich and I 'm certainly not stinking rich now , so erm I mean |
| 9 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 10 | Chairman in your haste to get your own way for once , I mean , I had my hand up for about ten minutes and I thought that er , er our friend on your right had appraised you of that , because I think that you gave just as much a distorted view of what the real problem is , as perhaps Mr did , and I think that the way you railroaded that one through does you no credit at all . |
| 11 | She had been teaching New Zealand , erm , not quite such a long training so she 's had three or four years ' experience . |
| 12 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 13 | As the main object is to obtain a smooth hover , the actual idle-up controls should be set to give as nearly as possible a constant engine speed . |
| 14 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 15 | In fact , her first administration down to June 1983 showed the impact of Thatcherite policies to be somewhat muted , with even so single-minded a Prime Minister apparently lacking in direction . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Chen added after a moment , ‘ marriage is n't always such a good thing . |
| 17 | Sadly , it was n't always such a pleasant part of the principality . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't really such a sudden decision . |
| 19 | As she could not stop , he had arisen , telling her that she might cry herself sick , but that he was going to Mrs Inigo , a woman who was n't quite such a cold poultice . |
| 20 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 21 | So it is no longer such a hypothetical question to ask , if the nation state were to be abolished ( at least in the sense that it was no longer governed by a sovereign government directly accountable for its actions to the people ) , would a new form of democracy , perhaps more potent than that offered by the nation state , rise from the ashes ? |
| 22 | When the Cooking Centre is no longer available a new repository will have to be found for the storage of goods in excess of normal everyday requirements . |
| 23 | In some cases , the dilution of the equity may be such that the directors and their supporters no longer own a controlling interest in the offeror . |
| 24 | And , for the first time , the full annual report offered the financially more sophisticated a wide-ranging analysis of results ( given separately for the society and the group ) and business activities that were not required of other institutions . |
| 25 | We now need to make it easier for those council tenants living in high-cost areas or on low incomes to move gradually into home ownership , without taking on too heavy a financial burden at any one time . |
| 26 | Okay so good a capital letter on there yeah . |