Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it , they complain and moan about the N H S , but basically its a good system |
| 2 | So its a basic part of being a human animal , yes . |
| 3 | When I was er I started at the North Mid , but I was only there a few months |
| 4 | She had been born in Edinburgh but only mad chance because I think that the family were only there a short time . |
| 5 | Truth is literally what a true proposition expresses . |
| 6 | ‘ So what a good job you were wearing them . |
| 7 | So what a long time it is since you came , I 've tossed it in the drawer . |
| 8 | So what a monumental shock to find that with ‘ Ultra Violet ’ they appear to have undergone a massive personality switch and , hey presto ! |
| 9 | The emphasis will be on putting everything into context , not only what a particular package achieves but how it does it , how it relates to the other packages in the same area and how it might be extended . |
| 10 | As a result they are merely measures of the degree of indentation of the coast , and ‘ tell little which a good map does not tell much better ’ Johnson , 1919 , P. 171 ) . |
| 11 | We 're up we 're away its a beautiful day |
| 12 | So that 's not good news Erm , if I can show the way of overcoming that problem , how , would you be interested , and you say , that problem 's always been difficult for me , you know what can I say then , ca n't say , you ready to train yourself to think , you know , physically you a little bit of actually , putting yourself in their world . |
| 13 | C F Cs , for example , er , we have just one a major prize , I 'm pleased to tell you , for eliminating C F Cs at our Greenock plant . |
| 14 | The ‘ link building ’ as it is aptly called , houses the warehouse , yarn store , dispatch , a new canteen , and above it a new sales office . |
| 15 | It is , of course , true that such officers in many cases have powers which enable them to do lawfully what a private person might not do , but the question whether their acts are justified by their powers must be decided in proceedings before the ordinary courts . |
| 16 | ‘ I can see already what a fine relationship you have with the other boys . |
| 17 | Jane knew just what a good soldier her husband was , but a woman who has deserted her man and stolen his fortune soon learns to denigrate his memory as a justification for her actions . |
| 18 | ‘ Julie was a loving mother and we both wanted more children but her career was very , very important to her and it 's important to me that people know just what a clever woman she was . ’ |
| 19 | The idea that characters could be interchangeable units raises the question of just what a fictional character is and what is involved in shuttling it between novels . |
| 20 | Surely it is clear to anyone who might imagine that we are discussing an activity that could legitimately be called ’ joyriding ’ — from the incident that I have cited and from the horrors of the case in Liverpool , where a car ploughed into some children — just what a murderous evil that activity is . |
| 21 | Yet the events at Murrayfield illustrated just what a complex sport rugby union actually is . |
| 22 | This , she thought , was just what a real Brownie Guide would do . |
| 23 | But , for one thing , the sheer size of the defeat made him and his players determined that it would never happen again and , for another , the power of Lillee and Thomson made him realize just what a potent weapon a battery of fast bowlers would be . |
| 24 | pinned back ears I wonder if people realize just what a hazardous thing it is , to have plastic surgery . |
| 25 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 26 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 27 | Other criticisms focus on massaging of the data , in the form of simplification of ape utterances in their reporting , so as ( probably unwittingly ) to make them look more like human utterances than the hodge-podges they really are ; and re-analysis of unedited films of ‘ discussions ’ with the apes , showing just what a high proportion of the exchanges embody no more than unconscious cueing by the human experimenter , slavish imitation by the ape , or his redundant expansion and embroidery of their exchanges without commensurate amplification of information conveyed . |
| 28 | When I look back I realize just what a hard time Mother must have had because she did not enjoy what one might describe as robust health . |
| 29 | These observations on human language learning , coupled with evolutionary speculations make one realise just what a formidable accomplishment it would be if apes could be taught the use of a communication system remotely approximating a natural language in creativity , recursiveness , and the extreme conventionality revealed in such matters as reference to spatio-temporally remote items or counterfactual conditionalising or universal generalisation about an unsurveyed domain . |
| 30 | Exactly what a celibate clergy needs . |