Example sentences of "[adv] perfectly [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is nevertheless perfectly happy to go out with the guns and take the boys . |
| 2 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |
| 3 | Although pressing is easiest whenever there is least rain , because the drier the plant the better it will press , it is still perfectly possible to press specimens all the year round . |
| 4 | But , even with the files at one 's disposal in the Public Record Office , it is still perfectly possible to go astray . |
| 5 | It is well worth keeping a special watch for fossils of this kind when hunting in Cambrian localities — it is still perfectly possible to discover a completely new kind of echinoderm ! |
| 6 | Nonsense , said I ; it was still perfectly easy to get around London . |
| 7 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 8 | As for the 1991 cruising season , most of the Med is still perfectly safe to visit . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Romford was also perfectly right to point out that , in the construction industry perhaps more than in most industries , health and safety are of considerable importance . |
| 10 | It is also perfectly valid to use data about other cultures to show that , because these cultures work on other principles than the principles which govern our society , the principles are historically specific and not universal and unchangeable . |
| 11 | Yet the answer is in our own hands , because it is now perfectly possible to immunise all the world 's children against the six killer diseases I have mentioned . |