Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these only 2 had regained a significant amount of their lost weight . |
| 2 | Basically this has got a good feel to it , a good tune and a good throb . |
| 3 | He dosed it up , obviously delighted to have found a reasonable explanation . |
| 4 | Of these , only three had had a continuous hospital admission lasting more than five years . |
| 5 | Elderly people living with other , younger people were much less likely to have had a home-help visit in the last month than households containing only elderly people . |
| 6 | Of course they are rightly pleased to have agreed a new marketing contract with IMG for 1993–95 worth almost double the initial three year contract which guaranteed them $56m but is likely to be around $75m by the time it is completed . |
| 7 | I think the problems we have defence in the last couple of weeks I 'm just pleased to have kept a clean sheet against them I think . |
| 8 | In the early afternoon she and Florian , with two more of their disc jockeys and a number of other public figures , were variously photographed setting an example , the situation being sufficiently dramatic without being overly traumatic to have induced a general spirit of camaraderie . |
| 9 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 10 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 11 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 12 | Once these had made a balanced C-shape , I then filled in any remaining gaps with some hybrid musk roses ‘ Ballerina ’ , which are a lovely shade of pink and are very useful flowers . |
| 13 | The engraving on the outer face of the Mezine example , while decorative , is also likely to have had a symbolic meaning . |
| 14 | So far this has included a major relocation from London to Peterborough , new £100m headquarters , product rationalisation , a number of company-wide initiatives aimed at improving management efficiency and a £1m investment in a new core financial system . |
| 15 | To those brought up on E. alpinum , the viciously prickly glaucous sea holly , E. eburneum is novel if not a revelation and surprisingly easy to grow given a deep well-drained soil in sun . |
| 16 | Whatever the relative order of gesture , speech and structure thereof , my quasi-conceptual evolutionary thesis would still be pressing : iterable contribution to significant structure across the whole language , be it gestural or symbolic , is almost certain to have needed a shrewd intentional grasp by communicators of what they were up to . |
| 17 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 18 | The crypts were small , too small to have needed a central pillar to support the ceiling , so we can only presume that the pillar had a symbolic significance to the Minoans ( Plate 18 ) . |
| 19 | Accordingly , in the television Nice Work , Rummidge University is played by Birmingham University and fears that some may find the performance too convincing have prompted a closing caption , of conspicuously meticulous wording , thanking the real campus for its ‘ good-humoured co-operation ’ . |