Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
2 | Right about now a tactful change of subject seemed in order . |
3 | Only from ‘ position A ’ do they present a target large enough for even a short iron . |
4 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
5 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
6 | In reality it is impossible to estimate the probabilities P ( wi|w1 , … , wi-1 ) for all but very small values of i , and only for quite a small vocabulary . |
7 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
8 | Incontrovertibly , therefore , Johnson had embraced Jacobitism to some degree of sympathy at some stage , and perhaps even quite vehemently , and perhaps for quite a long period of his life — but , as with the formation of many political tastes and stances , the dalliance owed as much to what he disliked ( the Hanoverian kings ) as to what he espoused and idealised . |
9 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
10 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
11 | It 's only worth about a hundred pounds . |
12 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
13 | Mares , on the whole , are surprisingly tolerant of the roughness and rudeness of their own offspring , and rarely seem to reprimand them , and if so , then perhaps with only a slight nip . |
14 | It had to be left long with just a little braid on the top and twisted underneath with a little bit of straw through for the summer . |
15 | By 1790 the European navies numbered in all about 470 ships of the line ( the large vessels which formed the line of battle in important naval conflicts ) together with about a thousand frigates and a thousand smaller ships . |
16 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
17 | The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been . |
18 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
19 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
20 | She wondered at her own weakness in craving for a man who had professed his love for her and made her with child , only to walk away without even a backward glance . |
21 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
22 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
23 | After purification treatment , the process water can be stored in elevated tanks and fed by gravity to the machine , or it can be pumped directly with only a small balancing tank overhead . |
24 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
25 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
26 | Previously they would be drawn directly from over a thousand bobbins straight to the loom in a visible display of colour . |
27 | Psychogeriatric care is of increasing importance with the rising incidence of senile dementia — yet some health authorities are still without even a single psychogeriatrician , let alone an adequate level of staffing for their elderly population . |
28 | Home to over a billion people , yet still shrouded in mystery , this vast country is a remarkable spectacle of exotic sights and sounds . |
29 | The complaint covered parts of East Anglia and the Midlands , home to around a million people . |
30 | Ever since then a Russian deputy foreign minister , Mr Igor Rogachev , has been repeating that his country is impatient for an Indochina deal ; he said it most recently last month in Thailand . |