Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 2 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 3 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 4 | However , what is clear is that agriculture in many parts of the developing world is extremely vulnerable to even a slight worsening of conditions ( Parry , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | As ever , we must balance the temptation to introduce such rights willy-nilly against the unreasonable cost burden that might rest increasingly on employers , especially those with only a few employees . |
| 6 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 7 | Sometimes , a tree may be all female , at other times , mostly male with just a few branches carrying fruits from female flowers , and at other times again , the flowers will have both male and female organs , as is the case in most other flowering plants . |
| 8 | This year 's El Niño is the most serious for nearly a decade . |
| 9 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 10 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 11 | Stirling , typically , was not content with just a small raid to prove the potential of his decimated force . |
| 12 | While professional discretion and autonomy is also to some extent an issue in this service , implementation is not complicated by either a multi-tiered structure like that of the health service , or by powerful institutions like the schools and colleges . |
| 13 | Now , my students find themselves coping with the intricacies of the Negotiator/ Interpreter oral assessments of an examination syllabus with which they are not familiar after only a fortnight into the course . |
| 14 | In more recent years , Whessoe has laid off a number of men , and moved into more specialist fields , but it is still one of only a few companies listed on the Stock Exchange to have its headquarters in the North-East . |
| 15 | One Double Room is still available for either a single person or a couple . |
| 16 | Intrinsic water-use efficiency of C 3 leaves is directly proportional to c a and negatively correlated with the ratio of leaf intercellular [ CO 2 ] ( c i ) to c a : A/g=c a ( 1- c i /c a ) / 1.6 in air . |
| 17 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 18 | Use a fake tan — a tan foundation or tinted moisturiser will make your face look more glowing for quite a while after your holiday . |
| 19 | Twenty-year-old Peake not only scored the goal which put Pool on their way to a desperately needed win , he was also one of only a handful of players on either side who looked capable of coming to terms with the gale-force wind and bumpy pitch . |
| 20 | Interestingly , ICL is also one of about a dozen alpha sites for Cypress ' HyperSparc — there are two unnamed companies in Germany also playing with the thing — indeed it reportedly found seven bugs in the chip-set for Cypress . |
| 21 | buying old say a scrapped a written off Sierra you know , picking them up cheap for about a thousand quid from the scrappy |
| 22 | If the traveller looks out of his car or train window or takes a walk along his local brook and bears in mind what a river should look like , he can not fail to notice , in many places , mile upon mile of treeless river bank , often devoid of even a decent margin of bulrush . |
| 23 | Le Mesnil-sur-Oger , Oger and Verzy were long overdue this honour and Chouilly and Oiry , both very fine premiers crus , are far superior to quite a few traditionally established grand cru villages . |
| 24 | The backlash is awaited with interest by everyone , even those with only a passing interest in the music scene . |
| 25 | The ATP Tour , Year Two : 1991 , is a book for the enthusiast although it is also a book that you would have no hesitation in showing off to your friends , even those with only a passing interest in the game . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's very entrepreneurial , and was n't satisfied with just a holiday home , so we 're now developing a new hotel which promises to be — and I quote Stephen now — ‘ the best in the Caribbean ’ . ’ |
| 27 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 28 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 29 | Sound-insulating quilt is laid above the new ceiling , and though a good space between the new and old ceiling is ideal , in houses with low ceilings , the method can be quite effective with only a gap of an inch or two . |
| 30 | The topological structure of the decision space can be quite complicated in even a fairly simple program . |