Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] news " in BNC.

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1 As we have had some rather rough news in the past few weeks , it is a real shot in the arm and the country will be grateful for the announcement .
2 ‘ Well , I 've got some rather astounding news for you , Gilly . ’
3 ‘ I know you t-told me not to p-propose again and I p-promised , but I h-had some rather b-bad news today .
4 Penny almost forgot about poor Kelpie during Pow-wow , for Brownie Owl had some rather startling news for the Pack .
5 ‘ I 'm afraid I 've just had some rather bad news .
6 ‘ I 've checked and rechecked , ’ the girl told her , almost apologetically , ‘ but I 'm afraid I have some rather bad news for you … ’
7 I get the impression he has had some rather unwelcome news .
8 In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family .
9 Erm , we 've got initially some slightly bad news on this , but then some really rather encouraging news .
10 The country was in a mess ; that 's a nice way of putting some really bad news .
11 Mr Frederick Garnet , 81 , said : ‘ The last thing she said to us before she left was that she would have some very good news for the family when she came home .
12 ‘ I have some very good news for you , my dear fellow , ’ he told the young man .
13 I 'll ring you in the next account period , and I expect I 'll have some very good news for you ! "
14 There 's actually some very good news on this front and there 's now five or six clubs throughout Scotland , and the aim to encourage children , obviously , to remain non- smokers
15 Apparently Malvern Vale and Egham , who are both erm looking dangerous just below Abingdon Town , they both lost today , at home , so some very good news there .
16 He has some very distressing news . ’
17 ‘ I 've got some very exciting news for you , ’ I said .
18 SOME VERY American news .
19 ‘ She informed us all she had some very bad news and through her tears said that King George VI had died , ’ recalls Margery Burton , of Redworth Road , Shildon .
20 He goes back and he says I 've got some very bad news for you
21 There , is that not good news ?
22 To counter this effect , a number of NLP systems were developed to extract information about terrorist incident from a test suite of 100 previously unseen news articles .
23 These rather artificial news items were very much the product of the final election campaign .
24 It 's not all absolutely good news at the present time , because the final boundaries of the area are not yet determined and we are currently in negotiation with the U K government about the precise boundaries of the five B area .
25 To what extent is that really good news ?
26 A new press and publications law was drafted to protect journalists and encourage new publications in both Yemens ; on Jan. 8 both Yemeni news agencies issued a joint bulletin on this subject .
27 ‘ Unless there is any quite remarkable news your sister has to tell , ’ Mrs Browning said , ‘ I would rather not hear what she has to say since I imagine it is a tissue of lies , of excuses and complaints . ’
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