Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has sublime importance , however , because it is the scene of the hunt , itself as much a prestigious and sacred activity as a means of acquiring meat . |
| 2 | It was very well presented and that whilst Billy Connolly freely admitted he was not in fact a culture vulture , it was his enthusiasm that in a sense having his own that make the programme apparently a complete and utter joy and in a sense that 's what sponsorship should do , it should do for art , music , ballet and opera what Cousteau and Bellamy have done for the environment and Attenborough |
| 3 | Morrissey , although naturally a quiet and peaceful person , was never one to mince words . |
| 4 | Keynes imagined a socially painless ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ which would be ‘ nothing sudden , merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain , and will need no revolution ’ ( Keynes , 1936 , p. 376 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Merely a hot and frustrated gardener . |
| 6 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 7 | The Titfords ' little house nestled among others occupied by these larger-than-life characters — John was , after all , merely a humble and humdrum cardmaker . |
| 8 | We must give up regarding " good English " as merely a social or literary accomplishment , and … endeavour by research and by exposition to equip the masses with the ability to exercise a reasoned choice in the employment of language ; in other words … we must regard the training of the linguistic consciousness as an essential part of primary and secondary as well as University education . |
| 9 | But despite his lack of flair Tim was obviously a conscientous and hard-working character who had the Dunkirk spirit . |
| 10 | So obviously a sensible and civilized couple begin by going together to see one lawyer , do n't they ? |
| 11 | Editor , — The alleged beliefs and practices of clinical ecology portrayed by A B Kay bear only a superficial and pejorative resemblance to the actual published positions of the field 's representative organisation , the American Academy of Environmental Medicine , known as the Society For Clinical Ecology until 1985 . |
| 12 | But he was not God , to decide such matters , only a competent and caring doctor , and his duty to humanity and to his Hippocratic oath — to save life , not destroy it — left him no choice . |
| 13 | All these schools were in Easington , and that left only a small but delightful anomaly on the other side of the town . |
| 14 | Because they are mouthbrooders it does not matter if a male holds only a small or temporary territory , as the eggs are safe in the female 's mouth . |
| 15 | Without firm action to peg the dollar from either the Bundesbank or the Federal Reserve , such intervention is likely to have , at most , only a small and temporary effect . |
| 16 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 17 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 18 | They can not be determined nationally ; only a political and administrative system that is close to the local population , and responsive to it , can match services to this diversity of preference . |
| 19 | Like the citizens of other advanced industrial countries , Americans in general have only a slight and spasmodic interest in politics . |
| 20 | The implication of this perspective is that it is possible to give only a limited and provisional legitimacy to strategic nuclear weapons deployed as a second-strike ‘ deterrent ’ threat . |
| 21 | The margins for error on a smallholding are extremely narrow ; only a skilled and diligent husbandman can hope to succeed . |
| 22 | This provides not only a familiar and welcome face to people who have not been exposed to library services but also provides a medium of communication through the use of community languages . |
| 23 | He listened , too , and for a moment the noises from the next room ceased , and he heard only a great and total silence , a silence that extended beyond the city , beyond the planet , a silence as empty and bleak and beautiful as space , as the universe itself ; the endless harmonious silence of the spheres . |
| 24 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 25 | Apart from the victory at Halidon Hill , which in retrospect was of great military significance but which gave Edward only a temporary and illusory supremacy , the war did little to enhance Edward III 's military reputation . |
| 26 | He calls himself a ‘ midwife ’ , and like a midwife , has only a temporary and external role to play in the process of birth . |
| 27 | Corporate and government debt ( ‘ debentures ' and ‘ gilts ’ ) confers no ownership on holders , only a fixed or predictable income and a fixed or predictable redemption value . |
| 28 | The empire , at least in Africa , was thought likely to outlast the century , not least by socialist ministers ; and it was imagined that the Marshall Plan , paid off by the end of 1950 , might represent only a brief and passing reliance on the economy of the United States . |
| 29 | Yes , we know it 's only a dim and distant memory now , but , hey , nostalgia 's all the rage , is n't it ? |
| 30 | But only a full and detailed commitment from Darlington Health Authority will put people 's minds at rest . |