Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 2 | I have only once seen a serious fight between badgers , and the sounds on that occasion were terrifying . |
| 3 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 4 | She had only ever had a vague impression of Frank Shildon and was interested in how far that was at variance with what she was discovering . |
| 5 | The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard . |
| 6 | Foreign investment banks have so far made a big chunk of their profits from earning high interest on the 10 billion won ( $12.6m ) they must deposit to do business . |
| 7 | From Bill Evans ' early days at the end of the first world war , across the years to Bill Evans junior of the 1990's , the family has so far recorded a combined total of 143 years ' service with Wedgwood . |
| 8 | The Police have so far adopted a watching waiting game … vastly outnumbered … they hoped they would gradually leave of their own accord … earlier this month … |
| 9 | My heart pounds , and my throat closes up with fear when this happens , but they have so far beaten a hasty retreat after a selection of Anna 's words , not to be found in any A-level vocabulary book that I 've ever seen . |
| 10 | The scheme , launched by Michael Howard in May , has so far attracted a large number of national and other contractors , and has been given widespread support from both Government and consumer associations . |
| 11 | With the honourable exception of this last case , the homogeneously broadened laser has so far proved a fertile field for instability and chaos only for the theorist . |
| 12 | Alexander Proudfoot , chaired by Lord Stevens , however , has so far proved a glowing exception to that rule . |
| 13 | Following those frustrations , Dettori only narrowly avoided a final disaster when jockeys ' planes were unable to take off from Newmarket owing to high winds . |
| 14 | Being together even wrought a curious change in their characters ; Oldfield noticed that something of his diffidence seemed to have rubbed off on Branson . |
| 15 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 16 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 17 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 18 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 19 | The locals have obviously never tried a good pint of 6X ; how can they drink this stuff ? |
| 20 | Matt had only recently married a lovely girl called Isobel Crichton . |
| 21 | My er the right hon the right honourable lady I 'm er I do n't know whether I 'm sorry to say or not , it 's a bit out of date , my right honourable friend has just today given a clear explanation of the back to basics theme . |
| 22 | The National Consumer Council report Credit and Debt ; the Consumer Interest ( May 1990 ) noted that the number of mortgage repossessions still only represented a tiny proportion of all people with mortgages . |
| 23 | In some cases I have deliberately not mentioned a particular plant because I consider it to be unsuitable for pressing , but I am sure that there are many plants not listed that will press very well . |
| 24 | ( With the exception of preparations last month for the visit of Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister of Japan , President Clinton has still not chaired a high-level meeting on the subject . ) |
| 25 | Despite Mercer 's injury , Leeds say they 've still not finalised a two-year deal for Aussie Test back rower Bob Lindner . |
| 26 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 27 | And , at 62 , Joe has still not found a new job . |
| 28 | With the exception of preparation for his meeting with Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister of Japan , he has still not had a full-blown meeting on trade with his economic team . |
| 29 | This concern with unfixed identity was not unique to the theatre ; society and politics more generally contained a theatrical dimension , what Greenblatt calls ‘ the theatricalisation of culture ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you know , ’ he said , ‘ in all my stay here I have hardly ever seen a Russian soldier . ’ |