Example sentences of "[art] [adj] really [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the few really good men I have ever met . |
| 2 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 3 | His air of tetchy , meticulous perfectionism , which encourages those around him to walk on eggshells , percolates through the entire Really Useful organisation . |
| 4 | However , if you are unable to seek professional help , do read one of the following really excellent books which will tell you everything you will ever need to know about healing through diet : Leslie Kenton 's Biogenic Diet and Celia Wright 's The Wright Diet . |
| 5 | More than one modern historian has enjoyed wrestling with the question : was Charles the Bald really bald ? |
| 6 | Following the success of Rohan Bags ( £40 ) — the first really versatile and lightweight travelling trousers — a host of imitators have followed . |
| 7 | Svetlanov 's orchestra was the first really good one I conducted in my life . |
| 8 | The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it . |
| 9 | Summer in Strathspeld : the first really hot day that year , air warm and thick with the coconut smell of gorse — swathed richly yellow on the hills — and the sweet sharpness of pine resin , lying dropleted on the rough trunks in thick translucent bubbles . |
| 10 | Dichloro-diphenyl trichlorethane , dicophane or DDT , was the first really specific agent to become available and it is still effective against the adult lice , although there is evidence of the development of resistance . |
| 11 | Arsenic compounds were introduced towards the end of the nineteenth century , but it was the introduction of arsphenamine , or salvarsan , in the early twentieth century that produced the first really viable alternative to mercury . |
| 12 | The Abyssinian crisis , referred to in the previous chapter , was the first really serious issue which moved British public opinion against fascism . |
| 13 | Has it escaped their notice that last Thursday was the first really warm and sunny day of the year ? |
| 14 | After enduring the terrible Winter of 1946–47 , this , the first really warm day of spring , was having a remarkable effect on the dockers unloading the ‘ Marit ’ . |
| 15 | It was the first really warm day of summer . |
| 16 | The GMP ‘ Legend ’ is the first really successful model to feature a so-called ‘ flybarless ’ rotor head . |
| 17 | The first really useful realization of the Lie algebra of the Geroch group was formulated by Kinnersley and Chitre ( 1977 , 1978 a , b ) , who demonstrated the action of the infinitesimal elements of the group in terms of an infinite hierarchy of potentials . |
| 18 | He collaborated with his friend Conrad Beck , the optical manufacturer , in applying these improvements to a production model , and the Beck–Barnard instrument , the first really efficient ultraviolet microscope , was placed on the market in 1929 . |
| 19 | Marseille 's dour defence — inspired by the belligerent Basile Boli — had been so assured , but finally succumbed in the face of the first really intelligent attack they had been forced to face . |
| 20 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 21 | Yes , we have a free day tomorrow — actually the first really free day we have ever had here — i.e. not only free of teaching but also free of official sight-seeing arrangements . |
| 22 | Barker was a natural showman , promoting Henry VIII with the declaration that he would burn all the prints of the film within six weeks , and his own sense of the significance of what he had done is echoed in Rachael Low 's description of this as ‘ the first really important feature film . ’ |
| 23 | This is the first really high pass of the Pyrenees , 3,500 feet up , and a suitably stark spot once you have risen above the trees of the valley . |
| 24 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 25 | It was here that he made his name , carrying out the first really ambitious operation of its kind in the country , which was to be a blueprint for his ‘ Great Design ’ for the Fens . |
| 26 | But it is with inversion that we find the first really unfamiliar transformation . |
| 27 | The only really solid piece of evidence is the fact that Thatcher made no mention of her mother in her Who 's Who entry . |
| 28 | But representative government was the only really legitimate form of government . |
| 29 | Here was the only really contemporary test , and Bournonville failed it . |
| 30 | He knew that he had been the only really close friend and confidant of Modigliani from 1907 to 1914 , until they were separated by the war . |