Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 2 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 3 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 4 | In 1949 , for example , it emerged before the Lynskey Tribunal that George Gibson , the chairman of the North Western Board , had somewhat unwisely accepted a gift of clothing from the flamboyant contact man , Sidney Stanley . |
| 5 | His widow , Anna-Maria St Albyn , did not choose to live in so isolated a place , and her great nephew , heir to the estate , was still a child . |
| 6 | The French fleet was crowded together in a confined space , and on Midsummer Day 1340 the English fleet crashed into the French ships , which were unable to deploy in so cramped a position . |
| 7 | The beautifully illuminated Gondola , which was so greatly admired a year ago , will recommence nightly voyages . |
| 8 | On arrival the patrol members find that two men have apparently just crashed a lorry through a fence and swum across the River Spree . |
| 9 | And that I have personally already found a problem . |
| 10 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 11 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
| 12 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 13 | he 's only ever missed a call-out once |
| 14 | But yesterday , Susan Fey , of the CTC Trust , said , ‘ We were only ever given a target of 20 . |
| 15 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 16 | However , it did n't stop Charlie wanting to taste Coca-Cola , the latest drink from America , at a cost of a penny a bottle ; or to try the new safety razor from Gillette — despite the fact that he had n't even started shaving — at sixpence for the holder and twopence for six blades : he felt sure his father , who had only ever used a cut-throat , would consider the whole idea sissy . |
| 17 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 18 | The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy . |
| 19 | Observations from Earth-based telescopes have so far revealed a wealth of spectral lines , from over 50 varieties of molecules in space , some of which are operating as natural masers . |
| 20 | It has so far reached a total of rather over half a million pounds . |
| 21 | We have so far discussed a number of themes in conventional political theory . |
| 22 | We have so far considered a number of examples of persistent facies on a rather grand scale ; but there are more detailed examples of it which in their way are even more amazing . |
| 23 | Over have so far signed a petition in an attempt to save the hill from further housing . |
| 24 | I mean I 've just worked out there 's , there are twenty eight jobs there , of which er we 've we 've only really made a profit on eight . |
| 25 | The tower had a suitable motif of stars and stripes and somewhat ironically commemorated a man no more remarkable for his Christianity than for his constitutionalism . |
| 26 | In two by-elections for the National Assembly , the DLP lost a seat in the North Chungchong province and only narrowly held a seat in the southern city of Taegu , a traditional conservative stronghold , after an intensive and expensive campaign . |
| 27 | Iris Murdoch 's prolific fiction touches only occasionally on academia ; but she loves plots based on relations between teacher and pupil , master and disciple , and her interest in philosophy is so well known a fact that it informs any reading of her books , which are often felt to convey modern philosophical issues in lucid and digestible form . |
| 28 | If you intend to publish in however limited a way then you are more critical of what you are producing . |
| 29 | She was moving round the room at great speed for so heavily built a woman . |
| 30 | They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow . |