Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting . |
| 2 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 3 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 4 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 5 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 6 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 7 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 8 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 9 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 10 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 11 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 12 | I use it throughout my work because , used skilfully and imaginatively , it can make any sort of communication more powerful , more exciting and frequently a lot more fun . |
| 13 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 14 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 15 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 16 | A pupil at Hummersknott School , she is studying for GCSEs and hopes to go on to do A levels in politics , economics and English and eventually a degree . |
| 17 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 18 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 19 | It is concerned with English as both a subject and a means of instruction , with the ideas about language , teaching , and learning , which inform different methodologies , and with the verbal interaction that occurs spontaneously in classroom settings . |
| 20 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 21 | Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation . |
| 22 | He would have liked to have made a run for Mexico but he had work to do , and there was n't a chance of their surviving that long a race against the hurricane . |
| 23 | According to a report , the second lock up was in fact so narrow that occasionally a boat would be partially gripped , causing it to plunge dangerously . |
| 24 | ‘ Is it for real or just a fantasy ? |
| 25 | For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost . |
| 26 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 27 | He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized . |
| 28 | It is noticeable that even a writer like J. 5 . |
| 29 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
| 30 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |