Example sentences of "an [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 2 | But there is an additional condition : we should be able to see a prominent feature of style as forming a significant relationship with other features of style , in an artistically coherent pattern of choice . |
| 3 | For instance , an effectively compulsory change of year end could affect a firm 's billing cycle , which may have been agreed with clients : this would no doubt have cash flow consequences for both firm and client . |
| 4 | Was it an altogether new variety of Creole ? |
| 5 | For he believes that Marx constructed an altogether new kind of theory , of a novelty and importance comparable to the discoveries of Newton or Galileo , and with a structure quite unlike those of its predecessors . |
| 6 | But this part of Althusser 's more ambitious claim for Marx as the founder of an altogether new kind of theory is not upheld . |
| 7 | This functionalist style views law not as a phenomenon which exists on an altogether different plane to government but rather as an instrument which is part of the apparatus of government . |
| 8 | JUST to prove that there is life after rugby , last year 's Grand Slam coach Roger Uttley decided to forsake this season 's Paris showdown in favour of an altogether different sort of grunt-and-grind in Boston . |
| 9 | AFTER an outstandingly successful year of fund raising in 1990 , totalling £13,000 , Broadstairs ladies ' guild were able to make use of an empty shop in Harbour Street which the owner allowed to be used free of charge . |
| 10 | Norwich , who in spite of an outstandingly good record of behaviour were fined £50,000 , must be wondering if this is the same Football Association who dealt with them so severely only last month . |
| 11 | It was an incredibly rich time for woman artists with the whole area of debate around the body and representation opening up . |
| 12 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
| 13 | The builder will not start more houses than he can reasonably be sure of completing in an economically short period of time , nor at a price at which he will be unable to dispose of them . |
| 14 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 15 | Many four-legged animals have an intensely strong sense of smell . |
| 16 | She had taught Alexandra all the history she knew from an intensely Scottish point of view , and French with a cramped and ladylike accent . |
| 17 | The shearing supper , already described so vividly in the text , was an especially successful choice of subject . |
| 18 | It will also pay to weed out credit cards which either charge high interest rates or an annual fee , unless combined with an especially low rate of interest . |
| 19 | Stallions have an especially low tolerance for boredom , and the best cure is greater variety in work . |
| 20 | The Austrian Government is an especially strong advocate of Federalism , while the Governments of the three Višegrad states vie with each other in their unreserved allegiance to the concept of full political union . |
| 21 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 22 | This is an especially fertile area for discontent in any firm as junior and middle ranking partners press for increased reward for increased work and senior partners are reluctant to contemplate any reduction in their incomes before retirement ; and where one area of the work of a firm consistently produces higher returns than others , the clamour for tangible recognition in the form of greater profit shares for the partners involved can all too easily become the rock upon which the whole firm eventually founders . |
| 23 | I suspect that your desire to write a letter about beating children reflects an especially high level of interest in the subject . |
| 24 | Our findings confirm the transient , intense viraemia observed by others in symptomatic , primary HIV-1 infection , which was associated with an especially large reduction in platelet count , perhaps directly related to intense viral replication . |
| 25 | De Stijl is an especially bold assertion of identity , the Dutch word for style implying that there is no other style worth considering . |
| 26 | Four fires in a week occurred at an especially sensitive time of year . |
| 27 | The Gaullist conception of state broadcasting would prove an unconscionably long time in dying-in May 1986 Communications Minister Léotard still referred to the need to reduce state control — ‘ la desétatisation de l'audiovisuel ’ . |
| 28 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 29 | There is an abnormally high incidence of cancer and other diseases among families living along the course of the creek . |
| 30 | if , during a dictation practice , the majority of students have an abnormally high number of spelling errors , one might infer that the teacher has either dictated too fast or chosen a passage too difficult for the level of that class . |