Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 2 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 3 | This year 's El Niño is the most serious for nearly a decade . |
| 4 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 5 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 6 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 7 | Use a fake tan — a tan foundation or tinted moisturiser will make your face look more glowing for quite a while after your holiday . |
| 8 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 9 | Sound-insulating quilt is laid above the new ceiling , and though a good space between the new and old ceiling is ideal , in houses with low ceilings , the method can be quite effective with only a gap of an inch or two . |
| 10 | Maxim had wondered about that : the blast effect had seemed pretty widespread for just a bomb . |
| 11 | Having gone conspicuously quiet for over an hour , disappearing before we had even finished unpacking the car , there is nothing more to be deduced than the obvious . |
| 12 | The third vulnerable group of the population are the very elderly with only a state pension . |
| 13 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
| 14 | He got very excited about quite a lot of your recordings . |
| 15 | There are , however , no tigers in Sri Lanka , so they must have reached the southern tip of India when the land bridge to that island had disappeared and the sea gap become too wide for even a tiger to swim across . |