Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 2 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 3 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 4 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 5 | Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier . |
| 6 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 7 | Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations . |
| 8 | there we go Blondie , Island of Lost Souls , taking us round to eighteen minutes before eight o'clock on a Tuesday night , a Radio Nottingham Sports Special , Notts on the Italia trail tonight . |
| 9 | Tommy spent quite a time delivering the handbills to every house in the town and opened for business at eight o'clock on a Monday morning and closed twelve hours later . |
| 10 | The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn . |
| 11 | We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft . |
| 12 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 13 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 14 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 15 | " Life is possible only within a movement which calls the world into question " , he was to note later in Le Cheval de Troie . |
| 16 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 17 | Eleven o'clock of a hurricane morning , Trent thought wryly . |
| 18 | Eleven o'clock on a Sunday morning and the Reverend Steve Parcell is tending to his flock . |
| 19 | Even if every child of thirteen was learning algebra at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday , each child would be learning algebra for himself , with the help of his own class teacher . |
| 20 | Why do n't you go in late , go in for eleven o'clock on a Friday |
| 21 | Well ca n't , he said look have a word , and he said to me , you know , do you mind if we do like eight till eleven o'clock as a wedding party |
| 22 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 23 | She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge . |
| 24 | Day 8 Received an order for 20 hang gliders at £400 each together with a cheque for £8,000 . |
| 25 | On indictment a prison sentence of not more than six months was possible together with a fine ; on summary conviction the maximum was three months . |
| 26 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 27 | " I 'm still strong enough for a tug , " said Stephanie , too brightly . |
| 28 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 29 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 30 | The stumps were pitched at 12 o'clock after a firework display . |