Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 2 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 3 | For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest . |
| 4 | Not dead , only decaying ( rapidly at first then rather slowly in an interesting way ) … |
| 5 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 7 | The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . , |
| 8 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 9 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 10 | MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage . |
| 11 | That she would be a little less like a young woman . |
| 12 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the features which stood out most starkly to a western visitor were the harshness of the regime , the lack of stimulation for long-term prisoners , the absence of welfare provisions , and the exclusion of even minor personal comforts such as the display of family mementos and the pursuit of cell hobbies . |
| 14 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 15 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 16 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 17 | The bedroom was insufferably dark , though if he insisted that the drapes be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky . |
| 18 | ‘ So right from an early age I was told I was special . |
| 19 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 20 | If this were so , the strengthening of the various associations generated by the inhibitory conditioning procedure would proceed only slowly for a pre-exposed stimulus and this effect could well outweigh any advantage that the existence of a stimulus-no event association might bestow . |
| 21 | Much British cinema does lack emotional punch , and many screen Englishmen conceal their feelings so effectively beneath a stiff upper lip that it 's fair to ask whether they 're really human at all . |
| 22 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 23 | It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded . |
| 24 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's all right for a special occasion . |
| 26 | But it 's unerringly steady when you 're pressing on , and lurches slightly less ponderously into a tight bend than does its more sophisticated ( and independently sprung ) 960 24v sister . |
| 27 | If punishment does indeed reduce the future incidence of crime , then the pain and unhappiness caused to the offender may be outweighed by the avoidance of unpleasantness to other people in the future — thus making punishment morally right from a utilitarian point of view . |
| 28 | The politicians and officials who expressed public criticism of their work or brought pressure to bear , for whatever reason , did so mostly from an urban standpoint . |
| 29 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 30 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |