Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother in law died and i felt gutted for quite a long time |
| 2 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 3 | The 100 Group appreciates this and would be grateful for even a small gesture in the Budget , ‘ maybe with some indication that there could be more to come later' , Mr Lawrence suggests . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 6 | But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone . |
| 7 | This wine was light and fresh with quite a sharp dry taste , but not bad for the price . |
| 8 | The simple go/no-go transistor tester described in April 's EE seems to have been popular with quite a few of our readers and several of you have written with specific queries concerning the circuit used . |
| 9 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 10 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 11 | Research on visual memory , moreover , shows that recognition of pictures , after one quite short exposure , is normally very high over quite a long period . |
| 12 | It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible . |
| 13 | That fact , and the fact of being in the island , separated from the land wars which every other country in Europe has had to cope with , have produced in the British by now a different state of mind about politics , about the state , about the military , and about foreigners . |
| 14 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 15 | Cos , probably you do n't realize that , even a cigarette light , if you drew a cigarette , like that , and er and made it glow , it 's visible for quite a few hundred yards in the darkness . |
| 16 | Keyboard studies remain paramount for about a third of music college undergraduates although opportunities are provided for the learning of a second instrument or singing . |
| 17 | In fact , the diamonds we see in jewellers ' windows are typical of only a small percentage of natural diamonds . |
| 18 | The night was calm and warm with just a slight rustle of a breeze in the trees . |
| 19 | Oscars can be quite aggressive , I have seen them jaw-lock with quite a few other species of fish , as well as other Oscars . |
| 20 | Sometimes , a tree may be all female , at other times , mostly male with just a few branches carrying fruits from female flowers , and at other times again , the flowers will have both male and female organs , as is the case in most other flowering plants . |
| 21 | Stirling , typically , was not content with just a small raid to prove the potential of his decimated force . |
| 22 | After 1967 , when it was no longer a separate organisation , it had to be content with only a provisional annual budget . |
| 23 | The arm spines of A. palmeri are very different from Mortensen 's specimen ; they are thick with a very distinct hook , the arm spines of A. otteri are slender with only a small hook , like those of the Ingolf specimens . |
| 24 | ( b ) Where in addition there is a second charge If the former matrimonial home to be conveyed or transferred to the wife is subject to both a first and second charge it may be that whilst the first mortgagee is prepared to release the husband , upon having a direct covenant by the wife , the second mortgagee is not so agreeable . |
| 25 | She submitted there was no other appropriate or fair way for the Secretary of State to deal with the case other than to allow Doherty at least an oral hearing or written representation . |
| 26 | Had its fabric endured with its frescoes undamaged for just a few centuries longer , it might well have been ranked as one of the world 's Seven Wonders . |
| 27 | If the traveller looks out of his car or train window or takes a walk along his local brook and bears in mind what a river should look like , he can not fail to notice , in many places , mile upon mile of treeless river bank , often devoid of even a decent margin of bulrush . |
| 28 | Old kitchen or office chairs — there are always some in secondhand and junk shops — look fine stripped and painted in a variety of colours , some red , some pink or purple , for example , or all white with perhaps a coloured strut or leg , or all black . |
| 29 | What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look ? |
| 30 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |