Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 2 | The text is so extremely accessible and the language is very beautiful . ’ |
| 3 | In the event , post-war council-house architecture and estate layout has been much more pragmatic and the course of their evolving styles not without its many surprises . |
| 4 | Persuasion based upon religious belief can also be much more compelling and the fact that arguments based upon religious beliefs are being deployed by someone in a very close relationship with the patient will give them added force and should alert the doctors to the possibility — no more — that the patient 's capacity or will to decide has been overborne . |
| 5 | But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with |
| 6 | It 's like a very poor imitation of a boarding school , except that the discipline is much more severe and the food twice as bad . |
| 7 | The wind was only slightly stronger and the reservoir a little choppier , but most of the others were out already and managing fine , so I saw no reason why we could n't do the same . |
| 8 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 9 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 10 | she was only about two and a half there |
| 11 | ‘ The last week in May is so often windy and the sea choppy . ’ |
| 12 | But malaria was only regionally important and the drug too expensive to give in sufficient dosage ( McKeown and Brown 1955 , Hobhouse 1985 ) . |
| 13 | The following description of the two forms of right is thus necessarily brief and the emphasis is on computer equipment rather than attempting to give a detailed account of design law . |
| 14 | Meal-times become progressively more tense and the child starts to show more difficult behaviour . |
| 15 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 16 | My first experience of service with HM forces was when I was just over three and a half . |
| 17 | I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now . |
| 18 | If there are aspects of the science of art that Kemp fails to engage adequately , the scope of this book is nevertheless very impressive and a number of the issues he discusses impinge on my concerns as an historian of science . |
| 19 | He was part of her past now , and the future was a little more serious and a lot more dedicated . |
| 20 | Just a little more intense and a touch more desperate . |
| 21 | It shows , I think , that although the tramp is physically grotesque , he is actually pure at heart , like a ‘ ruined temple ’ which , although a wreck and a complete mess , is still arguably sacred and a place of purity . |
| 22 | The storm outside was beginning to abate , but the sky was still ominously overcast and the wind was paying havoc with the trees . |
| 23 | So find the right angle which is usually pretty obvious and the side opposite that the longest side is the hypotenuse which is a long word . |
| 24 | The groups who were deemed worthy of attention played scratchy guitar music , usually very fast and The Wedding Present fitted the bill . |
| 25 | It was still very early and the village of Axe was quiet , but morning sounds drifted faintly to her ears . |
| 26 | There are indeed several hedges to be seen , but the hedged areas are mostly still very large and the landscape as a whole not unlike that of the Cotswolds in its feeling of great space and skies . |
| 27 | She was still very shaky and the journey , short as it had been , had tired her , but he had n't seemed to notice . |
| 28 | The actual origin of the Stamford custom is probably much older and the subject of much speculation . |
| 29 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 30 | Pevensey Levels probably comprises the most important area of this habitat for nesting birds in Sussex , but the Arun valley , Combe Haven , with its reed beds , and some of the marshes around Rye are also particularly significant and every area is of value . |