Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] an [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Eliot , who chose the other way , earned entry into nothing more seriously influential than the circles of Bloomsbury , where the Edwardian pattern survived only in an attenuated and largely illusory version . ) |
| 2 | He had already begun to establish friendly relations with the man , portraying himself meanwhile as an amiable if somewhat tedious fellow with francophobic leanings . |
| 3 | The extent to which British society has , until recently , found such institutions congenial derives largely from an unbroken and perhaps originally feudal tradition of social networks and obligations which were imposed on and accepted by all members of society , whatever their status . |
| 4 | Idle — or perhaps not so idle — mention may be made on the radio news of a distant tropical depression known to be forming somewhere close to an exotic and encouragingly far away island — Yap , maybe , or Truk , or the northern Matianas . |
| 5 | His tutor , Marjorie Daunt , and others who taught him remembered him years later as an intelligent if somewhat odd member of their classes . |
| 6 | By defining this insider fieldwork ( and the university experience which generated it ) as a liminal situation , I am extending the Turnerian concept ( 1969 , 1974 ) in which the individual moves temporarily into an unstructured and somewhat ambiguous state , during the initial process of passing through a rite de passage before returning to structure . |
| 7 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 8 | Maggie 's hands clung to his shoulders , her lips fused with his , and when his knee nudged her legs apart in an impatient and very male act of domination she wound her leg around his calf without even knowing it . |