Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 2 | The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him . |
| 3 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 4 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 5 | It had been so quick and thorough that only a few people now remained around it , staring glassy-eyed , and the Rante itself already seemed oddly quiet and deserted . |
| 6 | As long as only a few predators hunt in the same area , each aposematic family is likely to produce several survivors . |
| 7 | His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week . |
| 8 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |