Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident was one of the most memorable from a year that Waggoner spent following the U.S.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 2 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 3 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
| 4 | Its state regiments are well equipped and lavishly uniformed in a mixture of red and blue . |
| 5 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 6 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 7 | Established internationals Gord MacKinnon and Pat Palmer represented the national team squad at the CRU 's recent three day planning meeting in Vancouver and were most supportive of a decision to implement fitness testing for all the country 's top players as an ongoing requirement . |
| 8 | The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin . |
| 9 | The Mk XIV , was the most convincing-looking with a fuselage , windscreen and engine intact . |
| 10 | Not too long ago your company was most pleasant for a while . ’ |
| 11 | I left school a stone overweight while my father was already dead due to a heart attack at the age of 59 . |
| 12 | For example , a proprietor of a garage may be restricted as to the amount of work that can be taken on due to a lack of skilled motor mechanics ; however , the proprietor can overcome this constraint in the long term by training non-skilled labour to perform the task . |
| 13 | Our guide was a tall , bespectacled chap in his late thirties , looking properly Anglo with a tweed cap , and a muffler around his neck . |
| 14 | However the statistics on intra-trade are not wholly attributable to a country 's membership of the EC . |
| 15 | Even the unemployed place government policy rather low in a list of factors responsible for high unemployment levels . |
| 16 | " I do n't find these little oriental chariots altogether unpleasant as a mode of transport , Joey , " he said , affecting an exaggerated Harvard drawl . |
| 17 | Tom Meredith , the Austin , Texas company 's chief financial officer told Dow Jones & Co that with long-term interest rates at historical lows , he is keenly interested in a debt deal . |
| 18 | With their SOE connexions , the SSRF found a dory more suitable than canoes when landing an agent who wanted to melt into the local scene rather than stagger ashore dripping wet from a canoe . |
| 19 | An obituary said that his tastes were simple , and that he was ‘ wholly free from a sense of personal importance ’ . |
| 20 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
| 21 | Add this to steering that is not too heavy when parking and direct and communicative at speed , and a chassis that irons out most road imperfections but still allows great cornering balance , and the Metro is rarely unsuited to a journey , whether motorway or A-road , long or short . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , Adam , ’ she said at last , ‘ I admit I felt a little peculiar for a while , but whatever it was has passed and I 'm absolutely fine now . |
| 23 | The most interesting of a myriad of other partnerships and endorsements comes from HaL Computer Systems Inc , which is working with USL to make the future versions of SVR4.2 into the 64-bit world . |
| 24 | Others follow , the most interesting for a novice explorer being Long Kin East Cave which can be entered safely by either of two entrances , a wet and a dry , and with the help of a torch it can be penetrated by easy walking along a roomy stream passage for 200 yards . |
| 25 | He was also rather fond of a secretary here . |
| 26 | Lisa is also incredibly popular at a time when the tide of affection for Diana is turning . |
| 27 | But in the second half of the eleventh century and in the early twelfth , liege homage was still a new and growing force in France and England : an experiment which was proving widely acceptable as a solution to the intolerable problem of divided loyalties . |
| 28 | He was alert and neurologically normal with a Glasgow coma score of 14 on admission . |
| 29 | The man would be discovered with his trousers down , revealing nothing so vulgar as a penis . |
| 30 | This is perhaps possible in a sentence like : ( 21 ) This Canadian is French given the existence of dual nationality ( if , that is , any speaker should ever wish to make an assignment of one property in a sentence where the subject is first identified by a competing property of the same type ) . |