Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum . |
| 2 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 3 | because it is immoral in a secular way , perhaps as a socially destabilising activity or a crude self-surrender to animal lust ? , |
| 4 | It proved enough for a most handsome victory over decidedly off-colour Ontario and it was an enormous pity that Rod Snow , the dynamic Newfoundland no.8 , sustained a neck injury that kept him out of the final . |
| 5 | This is not really good enough for a supposedly authoritative special publication under the RSC 's banner and I feel that , overall , a more convincing book might have emerged had all the papers been independently refereed . |
| 6 | That is difficult enough for a publicly owned company with a social responsibility . |
| 7 | Only through a very effective regional policy could these differences perhaps be reduced to an extent that would be compatible with the existence of a monetary union . |
| 8 | Warnie said that there was room only for a clear cut division of opinion — if one is a Catholic , the aumbry contains Our Lord and of course even prostration is hardly reverence enough : but if one is Church of England , it contains but a wafer and a little wine , and why in front of that should one show any greater reverence than in any other part of the church ? … |
| 9 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 10 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 11 | They saw the animal only for a very short time . ’ |
| 12 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 13 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 15 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 16 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | However , singing over , and Agnes bringing wine to sip , he got his companion back alongside for a little , before the bedward move was made . |
| 18 | He raised his eyes , morosely , as Morse took Dixon 's seat opposite him and pulled another chair alongside for a very blonde young WPC , who amongst other accomplishments was the only person in St Aldate 's HQ with a Pitman shorthand qualification for 130 w.p.m . |
| 19 | Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job . |
| 20 | Schleiermacher 's own account of Jesus relied heavily on such psychological study ; so , for that matter , did that of Liberal Theology ; and so too did those which saw Jesus only as a particularly heroic and noble representative of the human race , as did the immensely popular Life of Jesus by the Frenchman Ernst Renan ( 1823–92 ) . |
| 21 | On the issue of abandoning the guaranteed communist monopoly Gorbachev announced : " The party in a society undergoing renewal can exist and play its role as vanguard only as a democratically recognized force . |
| 22 | They know him only as a highly efficient and exacting captain . |
| 23 | As far as it is possible to ascertain , this particular meaning appears to manifest itself only as a purely human phenomenon |
| 24 | Its chief heterodoxy , ironically enough , was the large theory of Greek cultural development invoked to explain the mystery ; ironically , because the view of Greek culture actually advanced was based — with explicit acknowledgement — on ideas familiar to all classical scholars and accepted by them without demur , but accepted only as a purely historical phenomenon . |
| 25 | Norman Davis will be remembered by many with affection not only as a very great scholar but also as a most delightful and faithful friend . |
| 26 | In practice there is much overlap and all of the above must be taken only as a very approximate guide . |
| 27 | THE villagers listened patiently as a very senior policeman tried to persuade them they could do without their village bobby . |
| 28 | So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring , summer or whenever . |
| 29 | However , such boards are difficult to turn and in large waves can nosedive , so for a more manoeuvrable design the rocker line would be made more curved . |
| 30 | I have thought so for a very long time . ’ |