Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 10 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Or was all this just a wild stab into nothing ? |
| 15 | Is this just a malign coincidence ? |
| 16 | While I 'm having a look at this just a quick glance through erm there 's the er range of products that we print design publish , we do n't sell them , for our clients . |
| 17 | Is this just an ordinary camera you 've used ? |
| 18 | Or is this just an elaborate distraction created by her mind to avoid facing her infertility ? |
| 19 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 20 | If we were to deliberately over-provide , then I think it would be difficult to put a brake on this once a certain level of jobs had been reached , once the land is committed , there is a certain certainty attached to that commitment and I wonder how that would sit with the er guidance on development plans . |
| 21 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 22 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 23 | So is this really a new panacea or a just a passing craze for crazies . |
| 24 | But is this really a fair comparison ? |
| 25 | But is this really an unlikely choice ? |
| 26 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 27 | Preparations for unification of the two Yemens , which had received major impetus from the summit meeting in December 1989 following publication of a draft joint constitution [ see p. 37138 ] , moved forward with the opening of the border ( announced on Jan. 22 following a three-day meeting at Prime Ministerial level ) and a visit to Aden , capital of South Yemen ( the People 's Democratic Republic ) , by the President of North Yemen ( the Yemen Arab Republic ) , Col. Ali Abdullah Saleh , on Feb. 18 . |
| 28 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 29 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 30 | Oh was this quite a usual thing for |