Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 2 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 3 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 4 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 5 | While somewhere through a dark heaven |
| 6 | You never know , might be to make enough money to take you out somewhere for a decent Christmas do . |
| 7 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 8 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 9 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 10 | Union des populations camerounaises ( UPC — Union of Cameroonian Peoples , operating latterly as a Paris-based clandestine organization , having been banned since 1960 ; it was held responsible for unrest in the 1960s and was regarded as communist-led ) . |
| 11 | The late-fourth century rebuilding at Chedworth , with the use of stones from the nymphaeum , and associated coins up to the House of Theodosius , clearly indicates a continued occupation of the site , presumably as a small farm . |
| 12 | This was a nazi form of greeting that had been popularized by P.J. Ridout of the IFL in 1936 , presumably as a conscious pun on his own initials . |
| 13 | Gloucester was clearly intent on overturning the settlement , and as well as seizing Richard Grey 's share , he ordered the young duchess to be handed over to his leading supporter the duke of Buckingham , presumably as a preliminary to resuming the whole duchy . |
| 14 | Gloucester was clearly intent on overturning the settlement , and as well as seizing Richard Grey 's share , he ordered the young duchess to be handed over to his leading supporter the duke of Buckingham , presumably as a preliminary to resuming the whole duchy . |
| 15 | Presumably as a feminist one will only accept into one 's formulation of one 's religious position ideas which do not conflict with one 's ethical position . |
| 16 | He offended the king in some way and was summarily hanged , appearing since as a shaggy man , wearing a great set of stag 's horns and blowing a trumpet . |
| 17 | We will make good use of agency flexibilities in meeting our targets , and deliver programmes and services cost-effectively through a unified local office network . |
| 18 | We will make good use of agency flexibilities in meeting our targets , and deliver programmes and services cost-effectively through a unified local office network . |
| 19 | Still — she stood back to view her handiwork with a pleased nod — she had n't done too badly for a total amateur , even if she did say so herself . |
| 20 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 21 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 22 | She struggled furiously for a few seconds but her former strength was lost to her . |
| 23 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 24 | For a recurrent ( re-do ) hernia the chances are even higher ( somewhere between a 1 in 20 and a 1 in 3 chance of future trouble ) . |
| 25 | Now if you assume that they were paid somewhere between a half-day allowance and a full-day allowance , you 're probably looking at somewhere up towards fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 26 | The proper approach to development lies , no doubt , somewhere between a slavish attachment to all things foreign and an atavistic distaste for any type of change . |
| 27 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 28 | But , in the Jewishness stakes , sweetheart , the kosher ayatollahs who run this neighbourhood would place you somewhere between a Tibetan lama and the fairy on top of the Christmas tree . |
| 29 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 30 | So science , too , is conducted mostly as a pattern-matching exercise . |