Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , of course , have your headquarters in Tunbridge Wells , is n't that rather a long way to have much contact with Brighton ? |
| 2 | When Liman , the Senate Counsel at the hearings , suggested that it had been ‘ on-the-job training ’ , North thought that rather a good description . |
| 3 | ‘ Or is that rather a naïve question ? ’ |
| 4 | And at this stage , is n't that rather an academic consideration ? |
| 5 | Of this vast quantity of building which was achieved between 146 B.C. and A.D. 476 only a small fraction exists today and often this is in the best condition in the provinces of the Empire , despite the fact that the examples were generally less magnificent . |
| 6 | One of the most famous enabled you to look right down a spitting Pipeline barrel through the snake 's eye at the far end towards the mountains in the distance . |
| 7 | And Neighbourhood Watch is really to try that down a little bit . |
| 8 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 9 | There was a long night ahead of him , and he would not be relieved until eight o'clock the following morning when Ben Thompson arrived . |
| 10 | They 'd both had little enough the previous night . |
| 11 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 12 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 13 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 14 | It is difficult to imagine , as the swifts circle and the vast Edwardian lawn rollers rumble in the middle distance , while maids in pale grey and broderie anglaise move silently through a Zoffany interior , that only a short journey away lies the centre of Manhattan . |
| 15 | that only the final product of the primary school system is worthy of serious evaluation ; |
| 16 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 17 | Barro focused on the other major prediction of that model : that only the unpredictable movement in aggregate demand affects real variables such as output and unemployment — his contribution is discussed in section 6.2 . |
| 18 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 19 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 20 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 21 | Europe contained , for most of the years between 1880 and 1945 , the most important forces in world politics , and was the focus of the arrangements which governed the world : these arrangements left unregulated only the western hemisphere ( and even there the British Royal Navy tacitly provided the under-writing of power needed by the Monroe Doctrine ) . |
| 22 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Is this perhaps the only conception of rationality which is viable in the late twentieth century ? |
| 27 | Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ? |
| 28 | It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration . |
| 29 | Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ? |
| 30 | Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent . |