Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several days of this treatment , Honey became less anxious and forgot her bad habits of rearing and crossing her jaws ; and she eventually became quite a pleasant horse to ride . |
| 2 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 3 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 4 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 5 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 6 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 7 | The two enclaves did not share a common border , but together occupied about a third of Croatian territory and included 300,000 people . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 9 | It wor even , providing you have n't got a lot of if you 've only got about a hundred people it 's not too bad that cos it , it also creates a bit more atmosphere . |
| 10 | But I ca n't walk because I 've got emphysema and I 've only got about a third of a lung as well as arthritis to go with it . |
| 11 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 12 | Surfing can only sustain about a dozen photographers . |
| 13 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
| 14 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 15 | Enough to put together a good story but not enough to rush into print with it . ’ |
| 16 | It takes five thousand nuts to make a ton of copra , which sells at twenty-four pounds a ton ; and that in turn will only produce about a third of a ton of hair shampoo . |
| 17 | I just hope there wo n't be too many … the music room can only hold about a hundred , comfortably . |
| 18 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 19 | Too many evergreens can look boring , so plant just a few choice ones to add colour to dull areas . |
| 20 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 21 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 22 | ‘ Norman , ’ said de Sousa as the coffee and brandy were being poured , I wonder if we ought perhaps to have just a tiny natter about the programme . ’ |
| 23 | Strictly speaking , only two sentential contexts are required to prove semantic constituency , but of course a constituent limited to only two specific contexts would necessarily play only a minor role in a language . |
| 24 | And you 've only worked here a few months ! ’ he said . |
| 25 | If , like her , you have a sweet tooth , you might be better leaving just a little sugar in the diet to increase the likelihood that you will continue with the new sugar-reduced regime . |
| 26 | This commitment grew out of profound emotional changes over which he had no control , and of which he himself perhaps had only an imperfect knowledge . |
| 27 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 28 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 29 | With a high proportion of the divers observed in Sussex not specifically identified , the figures quoted under the specific headings only represent about a third of the divers seen . |
| 30 | There is a very special reward , however , for those who suffer the rigours of this journey when the cliffs end suddenly to reveal ahead an inviting and welcome crescent of golden sands curving around a lovely bay . |