Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 2 | The DCSL ( who , interestingly enough , was an active member of the library committee throughout the period of the project ) reports its beginnings in : what was very much a very small group in the school … a certain group of people who were keen for something like this to happen … |
| 3 | Under the urban direction of Radio 4 broadcaster John Ebdon — he of the ‘ distinctive dark-brown voice ’ according , that is , to the planetarium 's press handout — the London Planetarium is very much a peculiarly British institution . |
| 4 | Apparently a physically accurate copy of bass playing 's Big Daddy . |
| 5 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 6 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 7 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 8 | It also does n't actually really mention Estella , so it is basically a rather bleak ending for Pip as he does n't get what he really wanted . |
| 9 | Course , as Derek says , his mate is basically a very decent bloke . |
| 10 | It 's basically a very powerful anaesthetic . |
| 11 | I 'm basically a very private person , but I 'd probably tell Pete things that I would n't tell anyone else . |
| 12 | We look forward to a long a mutually successful relationship ’ . |
| 13 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 14 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 15 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 16 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 17 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 18 | There are many different causes of uncertainty and those which are explicitly due to GIS-based manipulations of geographic information are merely a more recent problem . |
| 19 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 20 | There may be merely a less direct link . |
| 21 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 22 | I think one of the main reasons why we would support the inclusion of a Policy erm E two in the structure plan is because North Yorkshire is adamantly a very rural area and therefore whatever happened in that rural area must be a strategic issue . |
| 23 | Transform the floor : quarry tile it , or lay new ceramic tiles , Mexican tiles or bricks ; put down a well varnished wood block floor ; or lay sheet vinyl , linoleum or vinyl tiles . |
| 24 | With that I leave the door hanging open and disappear fast down a deceptively steep gradient , masked by oily green creeper with wide leaves like Southern fans . |
| 25 | If only he had managed to force down a little more dynercaprol and potassium chloride ! |
| 26 | We turned down a flagrantly suburban side-street near the football ground . |
| 27 | It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure . |
| 28 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 29 | However , the Secretary of State then came forward , in August , with a second , revised regulation , which dropped the exclusion of supplementary benefit and national assistance and sought instead to lay down a more restrictive set of conditions for back payments . |
| 30 | Alternatively , you could carry on south out of As Cain , down a more minor road , to the village of Sare . |