Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 2 | In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world . |
| 3 | She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion . |
| 4 | Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs . |
| 5 | Armed only with a false beard , a small knife and a lot of cheek , Mr Vendu would cut the paintings out of their frames and walk off with them ; he even took a Renoir from the Louvre . |
| 6 | And Chain isolated substances which could be recognized as novel and peculiar only with a considerable knowledge of chemistry . |
| 7 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 8 | It continually updates so that you can see the exact amount of bytes free along with a graphical representation of the percentage free . |
| 9 | This implies that , if one is interested only in a limited number of eigenvalues , the power method is the obvious choice . |
| 10 | Earliest into the national newspaper market after 1945 was the Pearson group , previously interested only in a regional newspaper chain ( Westminster Press ) . |
| 11 | The Conservative 's plan a continuation of current training programmes for the long-term unemployed together with a new initiative in conjunction with the Training and Enterprise Councils giving people a voucher with which they can buy a ‘ skill check ’ , providing guidance on how to make the most of their working lives . |
| 12 | The traditional Diamond fighter kite as flown all over Eastern nations is remarkably controllable even on a single line , though its flight path is limited to a narrow sector of the downwind area . |
| 13 | Take a trip around the island by day and discover small restaurants tucked away in amongst the hills and valleys ; follow the bumpy sandy tracks to tiny secluded beaches , almost empty apart from a small bar or café serving ice cold sangria and the snacks the Spanish call ‘ tapas ’ . |
| 14 | Goebbels 's rousing ‘ total war ’ speech on 18 February 1943 stirred the Party faithful again for a short time . |
| 15 | Worldwide underwriting loss for the quarter was $80.5m — representing 7.9% of premiums ( 1992 : $135.0m loss — 14.8% of premiums ) , an improvement of $54.5m due largely to a sharp reduction in the UK underwriting deficit . |
| 16 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 17 | ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them . |
| 18 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 19 | L. John Chapman ( 1987 , p.9 ) says rather primary ‘ there are many that are proficient only in a non-standard version of English ’ . |
| 20 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 21 | My first attempt was a portrait study of a child done from life ; an impossible subject to do directly in paint and not so easy even as a simple drawing . |
| 22 | erm those of you who had mothers who were young in the twenties will probably recall seeing them because they were rather tubular almost like a rubber tube , with small holes punched in for circulation . |
| 23 | I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews . |
| 24 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 25 | Farquhar , unhurt apart from a huge lump on his head , bandaged Lachlan 's wounds quickly before joining him at the oars . |
| 26 | These samples have been found to be very similar socioeconomically to a representative sample . |
| 27 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 28 | The restoration has also revealed the way the archaeological elements were doctored to make them fit together as a sophisticated whole . |
| 29 | The path seemed otherwise smooth enough with a no-redundancy policy having been agreed . |
| 30 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |