Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they came back into the City , buses had to slow almost to a halt to safely make the turn into Winchester Street ; it was not only steep but also had a tricky camber . |
| 2 | As I 've said , these regulations are apparently complex but merely affect a simple extension of rights to vote and candidacy in conformity with our treaty obligations and I hope that the house will approve these too . |
| 3 | With so powerful and so complete an equipment as the Holy Spirit , the Christian has every reason for peace and joy in believing . |
| 4 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 5 | As I put the question again in 1974 , ‘ Why is Man so restless and so divided an animal ? |
| 6 | There is concern , however , that providing separate , specially labelled services which only mentally disordered people can use is not only extremely expensive but also encourages a discriminating attitude towards already stigmatized people . |
| 7 | Is Test cricket less significant and less enlightened an event than horse-racing ? |
| 8 | Natural law thinking , however , is overtly normative and therefore includes an ‘ ought ’ . |
| 9 | In adults , normal bone marrow contains largely fat and therefore has a high signal . |
| 10 | Forest people are generally small and hence have a low maximal work capacity . |
| 11 | Both the Delanos wrote books for children and adults in an effort to encourage the population to become more literate and hopefully generate a sense of pride in the history of the island . |
| 12 | A distinct genus of plovers , whose wing-tips are always black and usually have a broad white bar , and whose tail is always white at the base and usually black at the tip . |
| 13 | In phytophagous insects the mandibles are bluntly toothed and often bear a molar or crushing surface near the base of the biting margin . |
| 14 | Of those who are remembered , the more distant or briefly glimpsed a grandparent , the more likely the recollection is to be no more than an external image . |
| 15 | However , the nub of Sybase 's interest in the group is thought to be focused at what it can do to make its client/server technology more object-oriented and therefore steal a march over competitors like Oracle Corp and Informix Software . |
| 16 | SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits . |
| 17 | Susan goes temporarily berserk and viciously wields a pair of scissors at Ian . |
| 18 | They are rather slow-growing and usually take a good six months to reach 1″ . |
| 19 | The PC-based IPA is now available but still needs a PC with an extended working memory of 4 Megabytes . |
| 20 | ‘ They are often housebound and frequently receive a declining number of visitors , ’ he told Parliament . |
| 21 | Often silent and quietly studying a portfolio of my daughter 's childish drawings , I was aware of his compassion and deeply grateful for it . |
| 22 | Instead it demonstrated that Scotland is profoundly conservative and still possesses a robust and apparently irreducible Conservative and Unionist vote . |
| 23 | He has , says a friend , a taste for fast driving and also has a private pilot 's licence — he has been known to take friends on duty-free trips to the Continent . |
| 24 | At the same time as our launching of Youth Leagues , we identified volleyball as a growth sport which was not only visually exciting but also had a good , clean image . |
| 25 | This gives an advantage over conventional 100Hz ripple-smoothing filters used in linear power systems in that the values of both L and C can be relatively small but still provide a high a.c. ripple reduction . |
| 26 | Some have been initially successful and then suffered a relapse , suggesting that at least some of the cases owed their success more to the Hawthorne effect than to a deeper understanding of people . |
| 27 | Someone may be very unintelligent and yet have a good sense of hope or trust or love whereas someone else who is highly intelligent may yet have a relatively poor facility in these senses . |
| 28 | She could scream blue murder , but half an hour later would be the life of a dinner party , for she was very vain and never missed a chance to show herself off . |
| 29 | I He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol — ‘ As Paris handsome and as Hector brave ’ , according to a contemporary poetaster . |
| 30 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |