Example sentences of "[adv] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Always look for the ABTA symbol and book only with a bonded ABTA member . |
| 32 | We are so sure of this that we go out confidently into the hills , or sail away in boats armed only with a magnetic compass , certain that it will always point in the same north-south direction , so we can judge our own direction of travel from it . |
| 33 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 34 | And Chain isolated substances which could be recognized as novel and peculiar only with a considerable knowledge of chemistry . |
| 35 | Armed only with a false beard , a small knife and a lot of cheek , Mr Vendu would cut the paintings out of their frames and walk off with them ; he even took a Renoir from the Louvre . |
| 36 | Because Soviet military doctrine regards strategy , deployments , force structures and defence Production as integrated and interdependent activities , the Defence Council is concerned not only with a finite number of economic tasks , but with the scrutiny and elaboration of all aspects of defence policy . |
| 37 | Trying to vamp a bunch of vagrant whales in the Pentland Firth in March armed only with a waterproof tannoy and a box of plain-wrapped tapes is not everyone 's idea of a good time . |
| 38 | But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle . |
| 39 | Other studies have shown similarly extensive local group activity but in Birmingham , only about one-third were politically active and most of these ( 63 per cent ) were involved only with a single issue . |
| 40 | The CEO must cope not only with a huge array of often amorphous and constantly changing data but also with variables so tightly interwoven that they must be disentangled before they will yield useful information . |
| 41 | Then , without previous movement or sound , only with a sudden gush of closed and graveyard air , the rotten surface above buckled and dimpled , lolling in sagging bubbles of turf , and sending its under-levels of soil cascading down on top of the ancient arc of bricks that upheld it . |
| 42 | They do best not only with a steady food supply but also with a steady moisture availability at root level . |
| 43 | Capitalist society … can maintain a relative equilibrium only at the price of painful crises ; the adaptation of the various parts of the social organism to each other and to the whole can be achieved only with a colossal waste of energy . |
| 44 | It was a joke because rheas , which look like small ostriches ( only with an extra toe on each foot ) can not fly anyway . |
| 45 | If I say : ‘ I have faith in you to post this letter ’ , such a statement is compatible only with an intellectual uncertainty that you will do so . |
| 46 | Uncle Basil was amused by this and rigged up a device like a stone age " Comeback tennis " only with an old composition cricket ball . |
| 47 | Violette in a mannish black silk trouser-suit , decorated only with an intricate artist 's clasp . |
| 48 | Serve only with an interesting bread ( if it 's interesting enough you wo n't miss the butter ! ) , such as pitta , black bread , rye , pumpernickel , or whole wheat roll . |
| 49 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 50 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 51 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 52 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 53 | He tried to wipe the wetness from his mouth using the back of his hand , only to find his face smeared afresh with a foamy slime . |
| 54 | She sat down and fanned the baby gently with a Japanese fan . |
| 55 | Instead , I 'm woken up gently with a strong cup of black coffee . ’ |
| 56 | The left-hand crag — Nouveau Monde — starts gently with a worthwhile group of Severes , steepens to HVS ( Jardinerie and Queenstowne being perhaps the best ) and then to E1 5b . |
| 57 | Distribute conditioner evenly by combing it through gently with a wide-tooth comb . |
| 58 | Insert your plants gently with a hooked wire tool . |
| 59 | When it begins to set , splash a little water on to it , and rub gently with a pointing trowel in a circular motion , to smooth flush , leaving little or no sanding . |
| 60 | The author suggests you should either make sure you are near the front of the receiving line ‘ or , before applying the lips , wipe the bride 's cheeks gently with a dilute solution of hypochlorite ’ . |