Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 32 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 33 | The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table . |
| 34 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 35 | Barcelona , 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 36 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 37 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 38 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 39 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 40 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 41 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 42 | The thirty he had looked would seem old enough to a child of eleven . |
| 43 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 44 | At Nesseby we found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes , which were all feeding large young . |
| 45 | I 'm writing this prose now in a domestic quiet broken only by a blackbird outside my window , and a car starting up and revving . |
| 46 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 47 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 48 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 49 | No , it 's not brown enough for a hen . |
| 50 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 51 | Mr Zeman expects to become unemployed soon as a result of the sudden , unexplained decision to close his forecasting department in the economics institute where he works , but he denies that he is a martyr in the reformist cause . |
| 52 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 53 | Cumming ( he changed his name in 1889 after marriage ) spent the early 1890s largely as a country gentleman on his second wife 's Morayshire estate . |
| 54 | I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ? |
| 55 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 56 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 57 | Move right to a corner and climb this steeply to a ledge — belay here . |
| 58 | The cottages vary ( some are cooled by air-conditioning , some just by a fan ) so if you do n't like your first one , ask to see the others . |
| 59 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 60 | Reports at the Second Annual Congress for Hybridoma Research in Philadelphia suggested ways to ‘ sanitise ’ the antibodies ' manufacture , making this more like a bench process with a reduced need to involve live animals — or even live humans . |