Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also contains certain diagnostics to deal with unexpected conditions such as too low or too high an illumination level . |
| 2 | You know where he lives in England we 're very quite a generally quite a tolerant or comparatively quite a tolerant society . |
| 3 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 4 | The aquatic plesiosaur was first described in 1821 and soon afterwards an almost complete skeleton was unearthed from the rich fossil-bearing rocks of Lyme Regis in Dorset . |
| 5 | If conditions change only locally and temporarily then only individual differences will result , but , Darwin concludes , if conditions change overall and permanently then a new species will eventually be formed . |
| 6 | These are activities which we would be unable to perform without a detailed knowledge of their personal circumstances , and trying to persuade them auditing is even necessary or that anything has changed since Uncle Albert 's day , is nigh on impossible and certainly not an adequate reason for an additional fee . |
| 7 | The A one six eight between Dishforth and Thirsk still has the contraflow in place between the A one and the A nineteen and finally just a reminder that er contraflow on the A one at Catterick is causing southbound delays of between five and six miles . |
| 8 | Charlotte Brunsdon 's excellent collection Films for Women ( 1986 ) and E. Deirdre Pribram 's equally useful Female Spectators ( 1988 ) both emphasise the heterogeneity of female spectatorship , whilst at the same time seeing film-viewing as very much a social practice rather than something which individuals undergo , passively , in the dark . |
| 9 | He felt it was his duty to protect the girl if her claims against her father were right and just not a 1 5-year-old girl 's fantasies ’ . |
| 10 | Later came Mencken 's American Language , published in 1919 ; the quarterly American Speech was followed by Krapp 's English Language in America in 1925 and later still a linguistic atlas of the USA was produced . |
| 11 | In some cases local authorities have even set up their own associations to deal with this , although since many housing associations are organized on a regional and increasingly even a national basis , local input is likely to diminish over time . |
| 12 | In Type II the prevalence of clinical disease is comparatively low and often only a proportion of animals in the group are affected ; mortality in such animals is very high unless early treatment with an anthelmintic effective against both arrested and developing larval stages is instituted . |
| 13 | She became the bright helpful little girl , friendly but perhaps just a little out of her depth among all these clever men . |
| 14 | By about 1740 and probably earlier a definite distinction had emerged between the ‘ formal Cabinet ’ , a relatively large body which included a number of holders of great court and ceremonial offices , and the ‘ effective Cabinet ’ , a much smaller and more compact group of ministers . |
| 15 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 16 | While a given social system probably has a finite set of religious requirements under given conditions , these can be satisfied in many and perhaps even an infinite variety of ways . |
| 17 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 18 | It deserves a star for its interior alone and maybe even a second for the brilliant horseradish mousse . |
| 19 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 20 | Van Cleef was wonderfully evil and perhaps not a little of Eastwood 's taciturn appeal lay in the compelling menace of his adversary . |
| 21 | The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs . |
| 22 | Quite delightful and quite probably a monster hit . |
| 23 | Obviously , there are limits to how long options can be kept open and fairly soon a commitment will have to be made . |
| 24 | But I 'm getting a bit bad really because I 'm looking forward to doing two wars a year , and if I start looking forward to doing two or even more a year I 'm not going to survive . ’ |
| 25 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
| 26 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 27 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |
| 28 | Is the Prime Minister aware that just over an hour ago I received a letter from British Alcan , which has a factory in my constituency at Falkirk , informing me that 169 of the work force will lose their jobs , not because they are inefficient but because the machinery on which they work is 50 years old ? |
| 29 | No doubt his model was better , and the Niobid Painter 's Peirithous is not so bad though still not a great success . |