Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks a bit ill , smiles vaguely , and has a strange rather shy expression . |
| 2 | Parr was smiling when at last he greeted Jessica , his usual rather wolfish smile . |
| 3 | THE sex in the rest of the film , otherwise the usual rather silly collection of schematic cliches by David Hare , follows a similarly leaden pattern . |
| 4 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 5 | The type adapts easily to relief or drawing , since it is an extreme example of the ‘ two-dimensional ’ statue : broad rather flat front and back views , with very little depth between them . |
| 6 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 7 | He gave her his normal rather contained smile . |
| 8 | Good consistent quality wines produced by this mainstream highly popular house . |
| 9 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |
| 10 | It was not until relatively modern times that the now prevailing terribly malevolent form of god worship had its origin , and became a deeply rooted human activity . |
| 11 | He looked a pleasant enough young man , and genuinely concerned . |
| 12 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 13 | But , but , but once , once the , the stories get around that the communists have not created a strong enough military base to guarantee that land reform will hold |
| 14 | Because we decided that they did n't have a , a strong enough military base er w w w what erm gave the peasants the incentive to , to join ? |
| 15 | Behind the monolithic abstraction " aristocracy " was a real world of competing noble individuals , often threatened rather than supported by their own kin , lacking a strong enough local base , needing royal patronage and support . |
| 16 | The trouble here is that none of these composers had a strong enough creative personality to absorb his antecedents to his own advantage . |
| 17 | Same old jolly camp-fire life went on as per usual . |
| 18 | The reshuffle served its purpose , for after a 15-minute rather uncomfortable settling-in period Sunderland , inspired by Davenport 's goal , gradually assumed control and there was no indication of tiredness as the Rokermen , superbly served by Anton Rogan in defence and the non-stop Brian Atkinson in midfield , hustled Boro at every opportunity . |
| 19 | The detailed and well-researched Most Wanted list includes EIGHT of the Premier League 's dynamic performers . |
| 20 | So it 's a sort of interesting rather surreal object sort of recycled medieval hearth on the site of the other one . |
| 21 | A teacher could be called upon to be a lecturer to 120 children , fairly infrequently , on " lead lesson " lines : " a full-scale highly polished performance , carefully prepared , and using any necessary ancillary aids. " ( ibid ) He could be a seminar leader to a subsequent discussion or work group . |
| 22 | Some cases are hereditary so genetic counselling should be given . |
| 23 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 24 | However , the cost is high ( but falling ) and the quality of the final product is sometimes not up to the standard of high-class manually digitized material . |
| 25 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 26 | Both have pale underwing , contrasting strongly with black wing-tips , central tail feathers unbarred , and red-brown not yellow eye . |
| 27 | Printed on chorine free environmentally friendly paper , the document outlines the Bank 's policy on recycling , pollution , energy , credit proposals and other environmental issues . |
| 28 | Throw down the prices from the West but of course good high real foreign currency for Soviet Union . |
| 29 | more erm abrupt more familiar side of him coming out |
| 30 | From having similar rates in the early part of the study period , men residing in the capital area in 1983–7 had approximately 2.5-fold more anal cancer than men living in the rest of Denmark . |