Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [adv] an " in BNC.

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1 This is normally only an issue in purchase advisory work .
2 This is patently not an area that has been officially acknowledged .
3 It is now clear that this is no longer an adequate explanation and that the rates of schizophrenia in British black young people are worryingly high .
4 This is obviously not an argument for not equalising the use of schooling .
5 Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development .
6 This is still not an easy subject-matter — when the Royal Academy put together its recent retrospective of ‘ German Art in the Twentieth-Century ’ it dealt with the Nazi years by ignoring them altogether — a decision that put it in line with the orthodox view of the work 's quality and conveniently avoided the embarrassing possibility that these works — kitsch , sunlit expressions of heroic physical vigour and serene landscape — might still prove more popular than German expressionism .
7 But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly .
8 There have been 680 reported cases of AIDS in South Africa , but this is almost certainly an underestimate .
9 However , this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear .
10 Today , this is as much an art as a science , because of the huge differences of scale between small laboratory experiments and conditions in industrial reactors .
11 In flood conditions , the entrance is submerged ; in any weather , this is certainly not an adventure for anyone not experienced in the terrors and hazards of subterranean exploration .
12 This is certainly not an example of the parallelism of greater precision , but neither is it an example of automatic writing .
13 By the eleventh and twelfth centuries this was no longer an exceptional case .
14 This was no longer an affront to the public conscience , where the suicide resulted from mental instability .
15 This was pretty clearly an attempt to nudge the Americans towards saying yes to an aid programme for the Soviet Union .
16 This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation .
17 A mile or two from the front line , troops entered the first communication trenches ; though to call them this was generally both an exaggeration and an anachronism .
18 Robert was far more interested in finding out where they stood on footwear , but this was clearly not an area that interested Ali .
19 Marx 's reaction to this was as much an attempt to counter the claim being made on behalf of the Prussian bureaucracy in the 1840s that it offered an alternative to constitutionalism , as it was a theoretical objection to Hegel 's interpretation of the state ( Liebich 1982 ) .
20 But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law .
21 On these canvases the visible is no longer an opening but something which has been abandoned and left behind .
22 Born from Alfa Romeo 's remarkable heritage of superb performance and incomparable handling , the new Alfa 164 is quite simply an extraordinary sports saloon .
23 Keynes was trying to create a consensus around public works and his adoption of protection in the autumn of 1930 was almost certainly an attempt to enlist the support of the growing tariff lobby .
24 With democracy secure , that is no longer an issue .
25 That is no longer an ingredient of the offence .
26 That is no longer an ingredient of the offence .
27 He added ‘ That is no longer an ingredient of the offence ’ ( sc .
28 That is simply not an acceptable prospect . ’
29 That 's very nearly an armful ! ’ — that was his catchphrase .
30 But their purpose was very different , short-term and political rather than long-term and social ; and that was no longer an outrage .
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