Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released . |
| 2 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 3 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 4 | They looked so filthy and disreputable that a woman walking her dog stopped to stare at them as they straggled wearily across the wide , almost deserted beach . |
| 5 | The writer , Steve Brady , criticized the notion of the state being so powerful and monolithic that a secret leadership was necessary to prevent MI5 spies from taking over the party . |
| 6 | ‘ The issues raised are so important and fundamental that an effective response is required by the auditing profession , rather than merely attempts to justify the status quo . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The issues raised are so important and fundamental that an effective response is required by the auditing profession , rather than merely further efforts to justify the status quo . ’ |
| 8 | She had her spirit of adventure and desire for romance and excitement fulfilled becoming less superficial and pretentious and a more mature person . |
| 9 | Well , I think I ca n't stretch the secretary 's report much longer than one and a half |
| 10 | In order to show conscious memorising the employer will have to demonstrate that the complexity of the process or that the list of trade connections was so lengthy or important that an honest employee would have realised that these were the property of his employer . |
| 11 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 12 | After all , what could be more natural and nutritious than a deliciously sweet grape dried by the sun ? |
| 13 | Since electrical pulses zinging down a wire are more regular and predictable than a steel cable moving inside a plastic cover , the result should be more precise control of engine revs and better fuel consumption . |
| 14 | So capable of making a kiss into something far more intimate and passionate than a simple meeting of mouths and bodies … |
| 15 | This grows gradually more difficult and strenuous until a final wild swing out and over a jammed block deposits the leader in a superb eyrie behind a tottering pinnacle . |
| 16 | Now in life there is nothing more defenceless or ridiculous than a man with his pantaloons about his ankles , his shirt tail raised and his mind on other matters . |
| 17 | However the high cost of closed-loop systems can be attributed to their small share of the market ; would closed-loop be any more expensive than open-loop if a comparable set of integrated circuit control packages was available ? |
| 18 | A stimulus thrusting towards one is more energetic and aggressive than a similar stimulus moving away . |
| 19 | Cousteau , barely in his twenties , was a happy-go-lucky youngster , always eager and willing and a more than competent seaman . |
| 20 | It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves . |
| 21 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 22 | In the latter case , small , metal discs slightly larger and thicker than a large coin , hold pictures , drawings , etc onto the board and in that way avoid the need for drawing pins . |
| 23 | Udders are both softer and warmer than a sow 's hindquarters . |
| 24 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 25 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 26 | It was as tall and cold as a glacier rolling down a valley , crunching trees like matchsticks . |
| 27 | As frail and pitiful as a moth in spring . |
| 28 | All the difference in the world between somewhere as spacious as this and a crowded tube carriage . |
| 29 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 30 | When I get to the road , with St James 's Park beyond , as fresh and green as an early summer salad , I stop and turn . |