Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical developments made possible both a greater variety and quality of signals and also more convenient ways of listening . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 3 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 4 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 5 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Erm now you 've done that quite a few times before N A O so do the N A O H first and you should be able to whiz through that . |
| 7 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 8 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 9 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 10 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 11 | It really is a multi-million pound industry … convincing people they could look better just a few pounds or stones lighter and this is how to do it . |
| 12 | HSBC chairman Sir William Purves said : ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . |
| 13 | ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year , and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . ’ |
| 14 | The senior ( 16-19 years ) boys 100 metres butterfly produced a keen battle in which Mark Wolfenden ( Chester ) returned 57.74 just a half metre ahead of Steven Mavin ( Ramsay Abbey ) 58.04 with David Carr ( Dronfield ) a close third in 58.62 . |
| 15 | But the convoy got stuck again a few miles out of Rogatica , where it had been blocked , by fallen timber thrown on the road , according to Commander Barry Frewer of the United Nations Protection Force ( Unprofor ) in Sarajevo . |
| 16 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 17 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 18 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 19 | When Liman , the Senate Counsel at the hearings , suggested that it had been ‘ on-the-job training ’ , North thought that rather a good description . |
| 20 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 21 | Right , and just , just work out what seventeen per cent , just try seventeen over a hundred times four hundred , just to check , see what it comes to , you would n't normally check it . |
| 22 | Well it just means sixty over a hundred , |
| 23 | the relative index , which became necessary once a reasonable number of subjects had been enumerated . |
| 24 | Body language , yes we 'll talk a little bit about body language and take that just a little bit further |
| 25 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 26 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |