Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It deserves a star for its interior alone and maybe even a second for the brilliant horseradish mousse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Van Cleef was wonderfully evil and perhaps not a little of Eastwood 's taciturn appeal lay in the compelling menace of his adversary . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Quite delightful and quite probably a monster hit . |
| 15 | Obviously , there are limits to how long options can be kept open and fairly soon a commitment will have to be made . |
| 16 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
| 17 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 18 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |