Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lili 's father was tremendously rich until the government sequestered all his property . |
| 2 | This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent . |
| 3 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 4 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 5 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 6 | In any case the normal cost of equipping a good boat with an efficient crew would certainly not be higher , and probably be a little lower after the trade had settled down to its now increased dimensions than before . |
| 7 | We are particularly anxious to bring the courts back into use for the 1993 season , so we would be most grateful if the application could be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Ah yeah , I , I would think myself that I was also , er rather sorry that the boy doing had just shown how silly they |
| 9 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 10 | This problem is most acute when the individual ( or group ) courting media attention seeks to placate different and conflicting audiences , for example an international/foreign audience and a home one . |
| 11 | The demands of this kind of social experience are perhaps most acute when the infant wishes to communicate to the adult about the object — for example , if the child wishes to draw the adult 's attention to an object or request an object from the adult . |
| 12 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 13 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 14 | Although France had a railway line from the coalfield of Saint Etienne to Lyons in 1832 , it too was slow to develop a national network , partly because of governmental reluctance to embrace the new form of transportation and also because the economy remained predominantly agricultural and the road system was more efficient and extensive than Britain 's . |
| 15 | At that time , Spain was predominantly agricultural and the interruption of normal activity during the war had resulted in serious shortages of foodstuffs . |
| 16 | It may appear rather odd that a book on an emerging language devotes a chapter to the process of translating meaning from that language to another and vice versa ( especially when this second language will be , virtually always , English ) , but the development of BSL , and its community of users is so bound up in its treatment by hearing people that it is essential to have some discussion on the matter . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many people who choose to work more than 48 hours per week , and who thereby earn overtime and give greater security to their families , would be most upset if an edict from Brussels took the right to work such overtime away from them , especially as hon. Members would be excluded from the rules , as would the bureaucrats in Europe and all managers and executives ? |
| 18 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 19 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 20 | The danger is most marked where the measurement of improvement is subjective . |
| 21 | ( 149 ) From these , similar artefacts could be dated by comparison ; by this method it is rarely clear whether the date applies to the manufacture or deposition of the artefact . |
| 22 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 23 | It is wholly acceptable that the patient should have been persuaded by others of the merits of such a decision and have decided accordingly . |
| 24 | The disk is pentagonal , disk diameter up to 10 mm ; the skin covering has numerous rounded thin scales embedded in it , usually most conspicuous when the specimen is slightly dried . |
| 25 | Glancing with irritation at the cocky girl who was n't even properly French but a bourgeoise English snob with no clue about what was what . |
| 26 | On this occasion , the guests were predominantly French , the music predominantly English and the dinner a sit-down at small tables of eight . |
| 27 | Underachievement , however , means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils . |
| 28 | Summer is generally the most interesting if the tide is right . |
| 29 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 30 | The sea was dead calm and the coral a glistening treasure trove of vivid gems . |