Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supplies of bright red paint ran out in 1943 and several cars appeared painted ‘ indian red ’ , this was a red oxide , that rather resembled the oxide used for trucks by many other undertakings . |
| 2 | Er and and and because they are struggling to bring forward examples it seems to me that that rather proves the point . |
| 3 | That rather vitiates the traditional nature of Cabinet government if you have a strong-minded figure ending discussions in this way . |
| 4 | A unit of traditional authority survived indeed in the Church ; but that rather favoured the independent cities , for with few exceptions each had its own cathedral and its own bishop ; often its own patron saint to protect it against its neighbours . |
| 5 | That rather settled the problem . |
| 6 | Quite the reverse , it is possible expressly to link the concept of " relational properties " with a ( suitably modified ) pluralist thesis by arguing , for example , that the possession of a relational property of a certain kind necessarily entails the existence of more than one thing in the world . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , I. B. Cowan could publish a book in 1971 justifiably entitled The Enigma of Mary Stuart . |
| 8 | The clear aim of the vendor is to disclose as much as possible thereby reducing the potential for claims under the warranties . |
| 9 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |
| 10 | ‘ THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ENFOLDING DARKNESS , THE INVISIBLE WINDRUSH AND RUMBLE OF SURF , THAT POWERFULLY CONCENTRATES THE MIND . ’ |
| 11 | If the purpose is to write , each at our separate window , there is something about the enfolding darkness , the invisible windrush and rumble of surf , that powerfully concentrates the mind . |
| 12 | That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest . |
| 13 | As Erika had already made up her mind , that effectively ended the debate . |
| 14 | That effectively ended the meeting . |
| 15 | That effectively broke the General Strike , which ended on 12th . |
| 16 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |
| 17 | Chambers 49–51 all have the same floorplan , as shown in Map 11 . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 19 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 20 | In the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 , the tenancy of Downing Street changed between Labour and Conservative four times , an average occupancy of only five years : the Great and Good were trying to produce policies which would be durable enough to survive the swings . |
| 21 | The worst fact of 1987 was that without the Foot and Falklands factors , Labour only reduced the Tory lead from 5 to 3¾ million . |
| 22 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 23 | Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose . |
| 24 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 25 | Two movements this time : the first a clever little fantasy on Papageno 's bird-call figure — easy to follow , but just pungent enough to raise the music out of background blandness ; the second knottier , more amorphous and , for me , much less rewarding . |
| 26 | And that obviously creates the uplift in land values which finances the social structure that would be set in terms of the operational criteria for the new settlement . |
| 27 | and that obviously affects the kinds of problems they have with regard to income , benefits , debt problems erm and with regards the kind of things they come in to see us about , things like single payments f for things . |
| 28 | The 518 naturally has the larger , squarer boot ( 16 cubic feet ) . |
| 29 | Mm do n't think it 's dry enough to cut the grass is it ? |
| 30 | He swore viciously , turned the mare a touch westward again , but that merely gave the pursuers a better angle to close on him . |