Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove slowly down a narrow asphalt drive between the southern wall of the church and the railing bordering the canal , but still there was no sign of life . |
| 2 | Over in Ireland , BOB DYLAN got his collar felt last week when a hotel security guard accosted him as he crept stealthily down a little-used fire escape . |
| 3 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
| 4 | Palaeography is a very inexact science , and should the researcher wish to delve a little deeper an excellent starting point is The Handwriting of English Documents by H.C . |
| 5 | A golf course is only rarely a paying proposition in itself : the real gain in value comes from obtaining planning permission to build in open countryside . |
| 6 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |
| 7 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 8 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
| 9 | The area of the former Metro County is now only residually an administrative city ( in the form of successor joint boards ) and never really was a cultural city . |
| 10 | All right a new design new styling . |
| 11 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 12 | Below right A male bighorn sheep with a particularly fine set of horns . |
| 13 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
| 14 | It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference . |
| 15 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 16 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 17 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 18 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
| 19 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
| 20 | ‘ I only had my little Fender Super Reverb , which was basically only a 35 watt amp — undistorted it 's about 25 watts — so I could n't handle it . ’ |
| 21 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
| 22 | ( Though it was in fact close by the high altar steps , so perhaps a little logic came into it too . ) |
| 23 | In practice , it is possible to send a single digitally encoded TV channel only down an optical fibre . |
| 24 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 25 | It is possible , for example , to read Henry James scholarship exhaustively and never arrive at a nodding mention , much less a satisfactory treatment , of the black woman who lubricates the turn of the plot and becomes the agency of moral choice and meaning in What Maisie Knew . |
| 26 | Upon looking up , we discovered the Indians passing along the side of the cliff , where we thought a goat could not pass , much less an entire tribe of Indians , with all their impediments . |
| 27 | To summarise this conception : for both Marx and Braverman the developed form of the division of labour within the capitalist enterprise is not so much a technical division of tasks — as in early manufacture — but a socially determined structure , reflecting the exigencies of the production of surplus value . |
| 28 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
| 29 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 30 | But , as the editor Andre Fontaine explains : ‘ It is not so much a new layout as a new presentation . |