Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indoor events had generally been held in the village hall but this had to be booked in advance , so the sudden change involved trying to push upwards of 500 dripping wet people into Greenside Church , a building designed for 300 . |
| 2 | Based in Whale Beach in Sydney , he has featured in ( Australian ) Penthouse and Playboy and been named among the country 's fifty most eligible bachelors . |
| 3 | From 1712 rather inefficient steam engines using the ideas of Thomas Newcomen were unchallenged for about 60 years , especially as a means of pumping water . |
| 4 | He looks a bit ill , smiles vaguely , and has a strange rather shy expression . |
| 5 | Their usual professionally lugubrious expressions slipped markedly into stark astonishment , almost disbelief , hoping , no doubt , that this was not a glimpse of the future . |
| 6 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 7 | You can , for example , create exercises on only the 500 most frequent words , or those words which you have put into your ‘ Unit 15 sluice ’ or your ‘ Banking sluice ’ . |
| 8 | To Nicholas , the only immediate benefit of that wholly unpleasant discussion was that it shut up both le Grant and Tobie ; and even Astorre , when found and brought to the villa , was unnaturally silent except on matters purely martial . |
| 9 | But besides that wholly justifiable disqualification , two others are sometimes advanced : first , that the form is only suitable for small businesses ; and secondly , that it is not suitable for capital intensive businesses . |
| 10 | There was no room in their streamlined productions for that revealingly individual note — the self justification , the expression of highly personal piety — which had occasionally flashed through earlier charters . |
| 11 | Why do so many people want to take a long journey into that rather strange place that is known as Adland . |
| 12 | Many of the knobs and levers also display that rather nice handbuilt look . |
| 13 | So is Charles Aught , that rather camp man in advertising , who writes poems and art-criticism , and whose correspondence with his fellow-critic Elwyn West was auctioned at Sotheby 's and fetched £25 . |
| 14 | It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period . |
| 15 | on that rather delicate level . |
| 16 | So that 's that that 's that rather awkward item so quite rapidly sorted out , yes . |
| 17 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 18 | That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again . |
| 19 | But there was no time now to speculate on that rather sinister connection , for Luke Travis was coming towards her with his brisk , certain step . |
| 20 | Detailed observation of Willis over the years , however , and his general ‘ out to lunch ’ demeanour , suggested Dylan to be more a tribute to that rather vacant rabbit of Magic Roundabout fame . |
| 21 | The success of the Green Movement over the last few years has left that rather uncomfortable question hanging in the air . |
| 22 | Who does that rather rigid policy secure the right balance , rather than a more sophisticated policy that could be sensitive to the competing merits of predictability and flexibility case by case ? |
| 23 | The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end . |
| 24 | Well it erm goes under that rather queer name in fact it is the association of British universities . |
| 25 | I was too occupied in explaining myself legally to that rather brutal man , Dalziel , then in explaining myself emotionally to Jenny , to have much chance of explaining myself rationally to you . |
| 26 | That rather ponderous phrase is used because in an unknown but not insignificant number of contemporary prisons the problem still exists , but the actual substance has changed . |
| 27 | Elderly , softly spoken Mr Crawford in that rather Dickensian office in the City was a far cry from this . |
| 28 | The administration has yet to answer that rather fundamental question . |
| 29 | An individual 's social network is simply the sum of relationships which he or she has contracted with others , and in that rather obvious sense the concept is universally applicable . |
| 30 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |