Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things like Doc Martens and Air Jordans are included in the cabinets — unfortunately , this is not so much an attempt to give genuine examples of successful design , more a sign of the current infatuation with popular culture . |
| 2 | So once a person becomes unconscious , remember they 've got to go to hospital because they can only get worse , right , there is n't any , enough sugar in that body to , to be able to work properly so they 'll only get worse . |
| 3 | It began in September 1989 and has taken just over a year to finalise all the details with the design being personally approved by Her Majesty The Queen . |
| 4 | She went home once a month to combat any such suggestion , and told her family that there were very amusing people living on the Thames . |
| 5 | TWENTY-ONE people were killed and 30 injured yesterday when a coach carrying elderly German tourists hit a car and overturned . |
| 6 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 7 | When Liverpool City Council abolished the title of lord mayor in 1983 there was a ‘ public outcry ’ ( The Times 18.5.83 ) , thus demonstrating once again a point made 100 years earlier in 1888 : ‘ that a sentimental grievance is by no means the least difficult to overcome ’ when considering changes in local government ( quoted in Hampton 1966:463 ) . |
| 8 | Once again a joy to watch 8 |
| 9 | Far away a clock struck seven . |
| 10 | A ‘ users group ’ meets about once a month to consider any problems over access to the signal and has proved a useful forum for discussion of wider and longer-term issues . |
| 11 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | Quite often a patient remains undecided at this stage about which goal to pursue . |
| 13 | Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for . |
| 14 | Sometimes when a professional gives considered advice parents exercise their right to reject it . |
| 15 | An ankle tendon injury , suffered at practice on the very day he completed his century at Durham , side-lined Smith for a fortnight but he is most certainly a name to watch this summer . |
| 16 | He was too much a professional to skimp such a vital part of the conference , no matter how pressing his personal motives might be . |
| 17 | In any event , this is very much a time to gain new qualifications and add to you overall knowledge . |
| 18 | What is needed is a public examination system based outside school , which will act as an incentive , not an inhibition , to curricular reform , and will as far as is possible assess pupils accurately , without at too early a stage designating some as ‘ non-examinable ’ or beyond the educational pale . |
| 19 | In some cases , for example , to keep within trimmed budgets , Boards had to install mains of too low a capacity to accommodate reasonable expectations of future load growth ( causing greater expense later on ) ; they also retained old vehicles and offices with excessively high running costs to save on capital expenditure . |
| 20 | Mallachy , when questioned , used the need for caution with great subtlety , with sliding eyes and tapping of the nose , and quickly became accepted by admirers as definitely in there somewhere , but too deep a man to make light comments on it . |
| 21 | Recently when a gang stole some large buddha images from the temple complex at Pagan , the whole country was outraged . |