Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | Right about now a tactful change of subject seemed in order . |
| 3 | Only from ‘ position A ’ do they present a target large enough for even a short iron . |
| 4 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 5 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 6 | In reality it is impossible to estimate the probabilities P ( wi|w1 , … , wi-1 ) for all but very small values of i , and only for quite a small vocabulary . |
| 7 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 8 | Incontrovertibly , therefore , Johnson had embraced Jacobitism to some degree of sympathy at some stage , and perhaps even quite vehemently , and perhaps for quite a long period of his life — but , as with the formation of many political tastes and stances , the dalliance owed as much to what he disliked ( the Hanoverian kings ) as to what he espoused and idealised . |
| 9 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 10 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 11 | It 's only worth about a hundred pounds . |
| 12 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 13 | To equip the definitions in his Dictionary , one third or so of nearly a hundred and twenty thousand quotations come from Shakespeare — many , it seems , chosen as much for their philosophical or moral point as for their usage value . |
| 14 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
| 15 | Mares , on the whole , are surprisingly tolerant of the roughness and rudeness of their own offspring , and rarely seem to reprimand them , and if so , then perhaps with only a slight nip . |
| 16 | It had to be left long with just a little braid on the top and twisted underneath with a little bit of straw through for the summer . |
| 17 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 18 | By 1790 the European navies numbered in all about 470 ships of the line ( the large vessels which formed the line of battle in important naval conflicts ) together with about a thousand frigates and a thousand smaller ships . |
| 19 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
| 20 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 21 | The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been . |
| 22 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 23 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
| 24 | In addition MA students specialise in one of the leading world religions ( Christianity , Judaism , Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism , Chinese religions , Ancient Near Eastern religions ) , and normally in either a second major religious tradition or one of the chief approaches to the study of religion — sociology , psychology , anthropology , philosophy or fine art . |
| 25 | She wondered at her own weakness in craving for a man who had professed his love for her and made her with child , only to walk away without even a backward glance . |
| 26 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 27 | And the chapter on some uses of grammar turns out to be more about how a few parts of the grammatical system undergoing diachronic change are open for exploitation by authors at this time . |
| 28 | So if she 's still worth under a hundred and fifty thousand pounds there 'd still be no tax on her death either . |
| 29 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 30 | An investigation was ordered by the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents yesterday into how a British Airways Concorde lost a 6ft by 4ft section of its rudder while flying to New York last month . |