Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually as the rapids calm down I 'm swept to the river bank , exhausted , shaking , but mercifully only a little battered . |
2 | Two whole racks of lamb cooked out to just pink perfection in under 15 minutes and gave a markedly superior eating quality , and a best method for roasting a 4lb boned lamb averaged out over all tests with remarkably only an 8 per cent weight loss . |
3 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
4 | ‘ I was surprised at Steve , ’ said Dick , after watching the world junior champion clear only a paltry 2.05 metres on Sunday compared to double European Cup winner Grant 's 2.25 . |
5 | Palaeography is a very inexact science , and should the researcher wish to delve a little deeper an excellent starting point is The Handwriting of English Documents by H.C . |
6 | A golf course is only rarely a paying proposition in itself : the real gain in value comes from obtaining planning permission to build in open countryside . |
7 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |
8 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
9 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
10 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
11 | The area of the former Metro County is now only residually an administrative city ( in the form of successor joint boards ) and never really was a cultural city . |
12 | All right a new design new styling . |
13 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
14 | Below right A male bighorn sheep with a particularly fine set of horns . |
15 | BELOW RIGHT A large female crocodile on the Nile River . |
16 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
17 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
18 | It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference . |
19 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
20 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
21 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
22 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
23 | Perhaps only a few applied for this job . |
24 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
25 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
26 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
27 | They write on the blackboard steadily , with perhaps only an occasional brief explanation , developing the classical derivation of some fundamental relationship necessary to the understanding of the subject . |
28 | ‘ I only had my little Fender Super Reverb , which was basically only a 35 watt amp — undistorted it 's about 25 watts — so I could n't handle it . ’ |
29 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
30 | ( Though it was in fact close by the high altar steps , so perhaps a little logic came into it too . ) |