Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] with 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 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
3 | She would periodically become possessed with rage , strip off much of her ceremonial clothing , and tear about the Rante beating anyone who would stand still long enough with a knobbly bamboo cane . |
4 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
5 | erm Anybody that 's well-organized , good at clerical operations , preferably can type a little bit even though , if only perhaps with a few fingers , erm would make a perfectly computer operator for a small firm . |
6 | The jump instructions ( b ) and ( c ) in Figure 3.11 contain an operation code field ( perhaps together with a subsidiary information field specifying the jump condition ) , and an operand field ( perhaps together with an addressing mode field ) to specify the location to which control is to be transferred if the condition is true ( that is , if the jump is successful ) . |
7 | Often found to be needed in vigorous , robust , healthy , rugged people and in children : they come down suddenly with a violent illness , a raging fever etc . |
8 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
9 | The Gyggle forearms were covered all over with a regular pattern of tight ginger curlicues of hair . |
10 | A nurse led Charlie through to a cubicle where an elderly man in a long white coat made him strip to the waist , cough , stick out his tongue and breathe heavily before prodding him all over with a cold rubber object . |
11 | Prick the log all over with a fine skewer and drizzle over the remaining Cointreau . |
12 | Sprinkle evenly over the top of the vegetables , drizzle all over with a little olive oil and bake for 15–20 minutes until crisp and lightly browned . |
13 | Hal had sent a messenger only yesterday with a dutiful report on his fruitless sally into North Wales , and his orderly return . |
14 | If red meat is really what you want , you would be even better off with a well-trimmed steak . |
15 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
16 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
17 | Equally , from the tenant 's point of view the interest granted him under a tenancy at will is so precarious that he would almost always be better off with a fixed term to which the 1954 Act did not apply . |
18 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
19 | If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one . |
20 | It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly . |
21 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
22 | Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ? |
23 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
24 | But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all . |
25 | Mrs Zamzam spoke slowly , a village woman speaking to a stranger , and without warning she stood up and went to her other room , returning a minute or so later with a rusting tin . |
26 | Boro provided seven of the 15 heat winners , with Daz Sumner having his best night so far with a 12-point return from his six rides . |
27 | If there are any holes or dips in the cake , these can be filled in now with a little marzipan and glaze . |
28 | Within perception you quite often get erm a local processing going on simult apparently simultaneously with a global processing and the two sort of mutually influence each other . |
29 | However , the guaranteed harmony of economic activity resulting either from a mechanistic or biological analogy fits in awkwardly with a Christian view of man and work . |
30 | In a real fight you should move in fast with a fearsome yell and overwhelm him with blows before he can hit you . |