Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother in law died and i felt gutted for quite a long time |
| 2 | The 100 Group appreciates this and would be grateful for even a small gesture in the Budget , ‘ maybe with some indication that there could be more to come later' , Mr Lawrence suggests . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone . |
| 5 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 6 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 7 | Research on visual memory , moreover , shows that recognition of pictures , after one quite short exposure , is normally very high over quite a long period . |
| 8 | That fact , and the fact of being in the island , separated from the land wars which every other country in Europe has had to cope with , have produced in the British by now a different state of mind about politics , about the state , about the military , and about foreigners . |
| 9 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 10 | In fact , the diamonds we see in jewellers ' windows are typical of only a small percentage of natural diamonds . |
| 11 | The night was calm and warm with just a slight rustle of a breeze in the trees . |
| 12 | Stirling , typically , was not content with just a small raid to prove the potential of his decimated force . |
| 13 | The arm spines of A. palmeri are very different from Mortensen 's specimen ; they are thick with a very distinct hook , the arm spines of A. otteri are slender with only a small hook , like those of the Ingolf specimens . |
| 14 | She submitted there was no other appropriate or fair way for the Secretary of State to deal with the case other than to allow Doherty at least an oral hearing or written representation . |
| 15 | If the traveller looks out of his car or train window or takes a walk along his local brook and bears in mind what a river should look like , he can not fail to notice , in many places , mile upon mile of treeless river bank , often devoid of even a decent margin of bulrush . |
| 16 | Old kitchen or office chairs — there are always some in secondhand and junk shops — look fine stripped and painted in a variety of colours , some red , some pink or purple , for example , or all white with perhaps a coloured strut or leg , or all black . |
| 17 | What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look ? |
| 18 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 19 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 20 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 21 | I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’ |
| 22 | Cytochrome P450 was present in only a small proportion of normal colon samples , whereas epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase β were identified in about half , and glutathione S-transferase α and γ in most normal samples . |
| 23 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 24 | What was self-evident from even a casual perusal of the book was how extensively the unreconciled Dominion had influenced the others . |
| 25 | At higher Re the flow becomes turbulent in only a small fraction of the total length and so the variations in flow rate are again too small . |
| 26 | It is true that Edinburgh University is active in more than one of the earth science sub-fields — geology per se , geophysics , geochemistry , mineralogy , geomorphology etc. — whereas some universities are strong in only a single sub-field , such as palaeontology . |
| 27 | You will be listening to many of these as the election approaches as they are a wonderful invention of the broadcasting industry : a reporter stands alone with just a small tape recorder to protect him and leaps out in front of unsuspecting members of the public asking them an inane question . |
| 28 | It is plain from even a cursory glance at these figures that , after a slow start , CD-ROM is becoming a remarkable success . |
| 29 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
| 30 | Each of those four nations er really ought to test the software pretty thoroughly before they hand it over but because er we could n't afford four lots of test equipment we said right , ship your software out , in tested to only a modest level and it 'll all be tested centrally in the Deutsch Aerospace facility . |