Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 2 | Of the two types of bend tests the four-point is the more reliable since only a pure bending moment is applied to the centre section of the beam and the relation becomes exact , for small curvature , since the deformation is truly into a circular arc . |
| 3 | Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism . |
| 4 | Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | It is concerned with English as both a subject and a means of instruction , with the ideas about language , teaching , and learning , which inform different methodologies , and with the verbal interaction that occurs spontaneously in classroom settings . |
| 6 | That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours . |
| 7 | The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised . |
| 8 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 9 | The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data . |
| 10 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
| 11 | There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing . |
| 12 | For instance the regional treasurer , who was given the Friem and Claybury brief while still a deputy , had ‘ a personal commitment , having visited the hospitals and realised the urgency of getting people out of these awful places ’ . |
| 13 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 14 | Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day . |
| 15 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 16 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 17 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 18 | As long as only a few predators hunt in the same area , each aposematic family is likely to produce several survivors . |
| 19 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 20 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 21 | Mr Al-Haroun , when confronted , was as gently apologetic as only a well-bred Arab can be when confronted by an angry occidental . |
| 22 | The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye |
| 23 | The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion . |
| 24 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 25 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 26 | Available as both a network feeder and network node — and compatible with the existing members of the family — the 10K enables customers to build networks supporting thousands of users in up to 250 locations , the company says . |
| 27 | It is hoped that courses tailored to particular IT topics will be available as both a control and a development provision . |
| 28 | This is as much a consequence of data on households being more easily available as necessarily a reflection of real differences between household and non-household kin . |
| 29 | His eyes sparkle at the prospect of retiring three years hence having established Ruby in particular as possibly a bigger money spinner even than Staley 's high fructose corn syrup . |
| 30 | Has she in fact any concept of God at all , or simply a ‘ transcendent life principle ’ ? 27 What is that other than simply a human conception ? |