Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 3 | The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . , |
| 4 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 5 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 6 | MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage . |
| 7 | That she would be a little less like a young woman . |
| 8 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the features which stood out most starkly to a western visitor were the harshness of the regime , the lack of stimulation for long-term prisoners , the absence of welfare provisions , and the exclusion of even minor personal comforts such as the display of family mementos and the pursuit of cell hobbies . |
| 10 | The bedroom was insufferably dark , though if he insisted that the drapes be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky . |
| 11 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 12 | If this were so , the strengthening of the various associations generated by the inhibitory conditioning procedure would proceed only slowly for a pre-exposed stimulus and this effect could well outweigh any advantage that the existence of a stimulus-no event association might bestow . |
| 13 | Much British cinema does lack emotional punch , and many screen Englishmen conceal their feelings so effectively beneath a stiff upper lip that it 's fair to ask whether they 're really human at all . |
| 14 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 15 | It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded . |
| 16 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all right for a special occasion . |
| 18 | But it 's unerringly steady when you 're pressing on , and lurches slightly less ponderously into a tight bend than does its more sophisticated ( and independently sprung ) 960 24v sister . |
| 19 | If punishment does indeed reduce the future incidence of crime , then the pain and unhappiness caused to the offender may be outweighed by the avoidance of unpleasantness to other people in the future — thus making punishment morally right from a utilitarian point of view . |
| 20 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 21 | Woosnam is not sure whether to follow Bernhard Langer and several other leading players and putt cack-handed in future left hand below right in a determined bid to get back to his best . |
| 22 | First top-roped in the mid-1930s by Eric Byne and Clifford Moyer before succumbing to the ubiquitous Peter Biven 's lead in 1955 , the route begins gently enough via a pleasant crack . |
| 23 | In short , if there can be any meaningful talk of " reduction " here at all , it is perhaps only of a possible reduction of properties to ( non-mental and logically independent ) relations , not vice versa . |
| 24 | If you do medical negligence work the employment of a nurse , perhaps only on a part-time basis , can save hours of wasted time and be very cost effective . |
| 25 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 26 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 27 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 28 | ‘ We were only in for a quiet drink , is a' . ' |
| 29 | Some have argued that this policy of ambiguity and delay reflected wishful thinking on his part , a misguided belief that he could somehow parlay his personal standing with all parties into a new consensus that would hold the communities together long enough for a French-financed modernization programme to work its magic . |
| 30 | One might hazard a guess that Part I was concerned with devising a conformation in which the fission explosion would raise the thermonuclear material to the required temperature and pressure and which would contain the material at a sufficient density for a time long enough for a substantial amount to react before being dispersed . |