Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 2 | The buildings were transformed rather successfully into a gallery for Bohemian art by František Cubr and Josef Pilar , in the 1960s . |
| 3 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 4 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 5 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 6 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 7 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 8 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 10 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 11 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 12 | Which brings us on nicely to a discussion of pyroclastic rocks themselves . |
| 13 | Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ . |
| 14 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 15 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 16 | ‘ You can do that all right with a stew , ’ said Penelope . |
| 17 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 19 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 20 | It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 23 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 24 | The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I thought he was all right for a millionaire . |
| 26 | That would not be all right for a priest . |
| 27 | ‘ All right for a start . |
| 28 | ‘ She was all right until a minute ago , ’ he protested . |
| 29 | I 'll be all right in a minute ’ , and then she goes , ‘ I 'll let you off this time ’ , and then I did it again — a really loud one , and she goes , ‘ Fay , you 're going to have to go to the Headmistress ’ , she goes … |
| 30 | He 'll be all right in a minute . " |