Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So sorry just a moment . |
| 2 | The latter , which seemed so strange even a few years ago , is now available as a result of our understanding of sign languages and of the developments in foreign spoken language learning . |
| 3 | So you 're working out what your fractions are so forty over a hundred is four times ten lots of four over ten lots of ten . |
| 4 | Just seems so unrealistic though a kid would actually do that . |
| 5 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
| 6 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 7 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 8 | Other vulnerable lakes endure episodes of acidity in which pH drops below 5.6 when a rainstorm or snowmelt flushes acid , sulphate or aluminium into the catchment . |
| 9 | It is so easy to forget to pay those regular bills such as the rates and mortgage , and even more so those once a year commitments like club subscriptions and insurance premiums . |
| 10 | Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ? |
| 11 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 12 | The Central Market clinic was only open twice a week and , in common with the entire public health service , medicines were almost non-existent . |
| 13 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
| 14 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 15 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not clear why a few of the many people who carry this bacteria go on to develop TSS , while the majority do n't . |
| 17 | Well three percent 's just three over a hundred . |
| 18 | It is patently obvious how a fear which is openly expressed can be passed on . |
| 19 | It 's just sixty over a hundred . |
| 20 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 21 | Assuming , on facts such as those in Bartlett , that the directors have sufficiently researched a project , it is not evident how a court could determine whether the expected profits justify the risks involved , and this is likely to be the case with respect to much business decision making . |
| 22 | So why not spare just a few hours for Amnesty International ? |
| 23 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in the UK it was felt that compulsion in an activity where you are dependent upon the possible offender for notification of incidents was not realistic so a voluntary system for reporting incidents was adopted . |
| 25 | However , a second drive forward is not permissible once a rolling maul becomes stationary . |
| 26 | In 1272 Kilwardby , in 1399 Salmon of Norwich , and in 1303 Gainsborough of Worcester were all required to take an oath to receive their lands at the king 's pleasure and not by papal grant , an oath which was thereafter usual whenever a bishop obtained his see by provision . |
| 27 | Danny Baker 's new breakfast show Morning Edition ( R5 ) , provoked comments that we were downright insulting : ‘ He is no more that just a loutish version of Jonathan Ross . ’ |
| 28 | In any case , my wig is more that just a wig . |
| 29 | If they are more complex then a plan for your care will be made and someone will be appointed to co-ordinate your care needs , and to discuss the plan with you . |
| 30 | In that case we are still unclear how a ‘ meaning ’ account , in terms of actors ' choices within a set of rules , relates to a claim to have identified what ‘ really ’ moves them to particular actions . |