Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult . |
| 2 | More than 40 per cent of the output is exported to overseas markets : the equivalent of over 300 million pints annually or almost a million a day . |
| 3 | About half a sample of consumers who had used the Building Societies Ombudsman or the Insurance Ombudsman felt their schemes were not fair enough and nearly a third questioned their independence . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , events of this century have shown how suddenly and dangerously a fascist group can burst from the fringes of political life . |
| 5 | But while the UK has become suddenly and significantly a net exporter of oil it has gradually lost its self-sufficiency in gas . |
| 6 | I could hear Sorley thumping around inside and then a distinctive whine and a sort of humming stutter . |
| 7 | And she used to sleep in and then a little bit after that she went to live in Liverpool with my grandmother and went to work there so s I I s I was the sort of erm eldest one at home then you know so I felt as if I was more or less responsible for looking after my mam sort of thing . |
| 8 | No fresh cool wind had swept through the valley for days , and the same stagnant air had been breathed in and out a hundred times by the whole gasping village . |
| 9 | Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times |
| 10 | Most of these industries have closed down and only a few survive as a reminder of the type of activity found adjacent to the railway in past years . |
| 11 | By the time dinner has been eaten and evening prayers conducted it is eight o'clock and about a hundred people have gathered . |
| 12 | Clark found that around half of his sample had travelled only 10 miles or less and only a tenth 40 miles or more , with women tending to move over shorter distances than men . |
| 13 | A ‘ good ’ book is basically and essentially a good story . |
| 14 | At club level these divisions are often relaxed as all boards sail together and only a maximum sail size rule is imposed . |
| 15 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 16 | Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings . |
| 17 | The audience too seemed miles away and only a few coughs could be heard . |
| 18 | It is not possible to understand this interesting document until it is remembered that it represents a SHARE of sheep taken over and not a public SALE and then fractions of an animal become acceptable . |
| 19 | She then took her father 's hat from his head , laid it upside down on the sand , rocked it backwards and forwards a few times , then upset it . |
| 20 | This can usually be done by bending it backwards and forwards a few times . |
| 21 | Thus But Hence a useful alternative expression for the partial fraction coefficients is in terms of which and The final result here is referred to as the Heavyside expansion theorem . |
| 22 | The overworked and gloomy chef in the main dining car had not lost his temper altogether and only a few passengers had grumbled that the roomettes were too cramped ; the most usual disgruntlement , George said . |
| 23 | The blizzard had swept on and now a full moon hung low in the dark-blue cloudless sky . |
| 24 | She breathed in slowly and regularly a few times , then got shakily to her feet . |
| 25 | Right and probably a few other things . |
| 26 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 27 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 28 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 29 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 30 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |