Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 2 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 3 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 4 | He picked one of the snowflakes off the parapet and began to read it , but it was not very interesting just a salt report from some sub-district or other . |
| 5 | E two if it was carried forward sir after this morning 's discussion also does n't help us because , as the county made clear this morning and made very clear just a minute ago , it would use such a policy , it sees its position as being to block erm the er inward investment planning terms to block it as er erm being out of tune with the county 's general conservation and environmental policies . |
| 6 | Other diversions include a sauna and steam bath which is free once a week , but otherwise is payable locally . |
| 7 | Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car . |
| 8 | Just seems so unrealistic though a kid would actually do that . |
| 9 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 10 | More recently , free draws have become popular whereby a purchase is not necessary and one shopper merely fills in his or her name on an entry form and ‘ posts ’ it in an entry box in the retail outlet . |
| 11 | The face will fill out , the limbs will unwind and the real Gemma will emerge , so that by the time she is six months old even a stranger will be able to tell her from Carla Marie . |
| 12 | If the CRCs are different then an error message is output . |
| 13 | An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger . |
| 14 | I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ? |
| 15 | Funny how a thread of dialogue at one table can silence a roomful of people , is n't it ? |
| 16 | Funny how a guy who loves doing nothing is accomplishing so much . |
| 17 | Funny how an American caught the feel of a cold evening in England better than anyone else . |
| 18 | It 's funny how an animal like a cow or a horse would swim you would think it would be |
| 19 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 20 | It has been suggested that this is crucial to the development of the disease state , as application of amiloride by aerosol alleviates the decline in lung function in CF. It is not yet clear how a loss of CFTR function leads to this increase in sodium absorption . |
| 21 | A sauna is available free twice a week and there is also a fitness room . |
| 22 | Facilities include an indoor pool which opens onto a large garden , a solarium , sauna ( which is free twice a week ) and sun terrace . |
| 23 | If — as happens too often — the new methods are even more inconvenient than the old then a change-over is difficult , because to the basic inconvenience of the new pattern must be added the inconvenience of learning it . |
| 24 | This information will usually make it clear why a class of share has been classified as equity or non-equity , but if necessary additional information should be given to explain the classification . |
| 25 | So sorry just a moment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In an isotropic medium ( in which the dielectric constant is a scalar not a tensor ) the directions of the E and D lines coincide , thus Figs. 2.40 and 2.41 may refer to either . |
| 29 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 30 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |