Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I personally think it 's much easier just to have a meal out . ’ |
| 4 | And so English regularly expresses a meaning contrast between house and houses , whereas Eskimo regularly expresses a meaning contrast between iglu , igluk , and iglut ( ‘ one/two/more than two houses ’ ) . |
| 5 | Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor . |
| 6 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 7 | The temper of the tools seems good , just soft enough to give a razor-edge , but not too soft that they bend against hard grain . |
| 8 | We were to discover that it was just large enough to hold a corpse and two breathlessly claustrophobic busy-bodies . |
| 9 | Although for reasons of space only parts of the conversations have been transcribed and reproduced here , for several of the conversations the extracts are just long enough to give a flavour of the content and tone of the conversation in general . |
| 10 | From this position Morris was soon able both to develop a practice of his own and to secure the fruits of public office : as early as 1727 he was referred to in print as ‘ the noted architect Mr. Morris ’ , and in 1731–2 he made a visit to Italy . |
| 11 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 12 | We 're sat either side of a small old table , just big enough to take a tray of tea , set simply alongside other tables and chair sin the cheaply luxurious lounge of the Country Club hotel in Cork , Ireland . |
| 13 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 14 | Oliver Tambo staggers on as president of the ANC , though he is hardly strong enough to deliver a speech . |
| 15 | Such semantic contrasts are impossible to duplicate ; for the second elements of these words , it is usually impossible even to find a recurrence of the form contrast . |
| 16 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |
| 17 | It is often more effective therefore to impose a condition requiring odour abatement equipment to be installed before a particular use may commence , then , if such equipment is not installed an enforcement notice may be served under s.87 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 18 | Some who are still young enough plan a baby without a husband , but the cost to the mother will be high and the cost to the child , who has no choice in the matter , may be even higher . |
| 19 | Although probably unlucky not to salvage a draw , Alton need to find more flair if they are needed to finish in the upper half of the table . |
| 20 | The pervasiveness of a version of religion as culturally cosmetic subtly does a lot of harm to people ; it can be very dismissive and hurtful , marginalizing what makes a religious person tick . |
| 21 | The worksheet is now big enough to hold a year 's data . |
| 22 | Some people are even unlucky enough to get a reaction from their suntan protective preparation . |
| 23 | It is particularly important therefore to appoint a guardian . |
| 24 | As we all know our lending institutions , from banks to building societies , have long ago given up caring a tinker 's about customer service or quaint notions of that sort . |
| 25 | For much of the year they appear barren ; with summer moisture the dried-out cushions and patches of vegetation burst into life , yielding arctic poppies , avens , moss campions , saxifrages — flowers familiar from the arctic desert , here abundant enough to provide a scattering of colourful , threadbare mats . |
| 26 | In a new report it complains that ‘ it is disappointing that much of the information the Inspectorate has expected to receive by now is not yet available to it … . the Inspectorate is still finding it particularly difficult not having a schedule and specification for the complete protection system ; this is basic information which should have been provided in the Pre-Construction Safety Report ( PCSR ) which will not be available until September 1983 ’ . |
| 27 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 28 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 29 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 30 | Incredibly , it is almost impossible even to return a detective to uniform simply on the grounds that he is n't very good . |