Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST meeting between President Bill Clinton of the United States and the Prime Minister , John Major , in Washington on Wednesday would probably have been a rather strained encounter a week or two ago . |
| 2 | With a rate of fast return the tanning bed is the single most profitable investment a club can make . ’ |
| 3 | Our reviewer found an operatic sensuality in the tone of the engine , describing it as ‘ … perhaps the most mellifluous soundtrack a production saloon can produce ’ . |
| 4 | What perhaps struck her the most was that , despite all , many of them appeared to be happy , while she , Sally-Anne , who could if she wished command the most luxurious life a woman could dream of , was most desperately unhappy , and had no idea of how she might become otherwise . |
| 5 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 6 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 7 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 8 | Females tend to disperse themselves among the males but in cases where a male has an especially good territory a female may opt to breed with him even if he already has a mate , rather than go for one without . |
| 9 | Six down , good looking kip so refined ride a bicycle beginning with p ? |
| 10 | The soft conventionalist could find in that exceedingly abstract consensus a convention that judges must follow whatever conception of law best justifies coercion , and he could then argue , via the route of declaring some conception best on that standard , that this abstract convention actually includes , within its implicit extension , the proposition that precedent cases must be followed when there is no difference in moral principle between the facts presented in the precedents and those in the present case . |
| 11 | A well designed 2 bedroom semi-detached house situated in an extremely quiet cul-de-sac a stone 's throw from Port Meadow . |
| 12 | But er I 'll tell you the most dangerous thing a tin of peas , if you put it into your pot there 's sugar in it , if you look at that , the ingredients |
| 13 | I will grant the most hardened criminal a reprieve rather than see him hang . |
| 14 | Exactly opposite Grace a heap of crates which had driven up through the bends and reaches , twenty miles from Gravesend , was at rest in the slack water , enchanted apparently , not moving an inch one way or the other . |
| 15 | Finally Miletti Cinzia a Beretta pistol 4.5mm , dated 11 01 81 . ’ |
| 16 | I must admit I was starting to get this admittedly ungenerous feeling a bit towards Rose Mota before last year 's World Championships . |
| 17 | Great promotional activity until the financial slowdown of 1772 secured in an astonishingly short time a linking of the major English river systems : the Severn , Thames , Great Ouse , Trent , Humber and Mersey . |
| 18 | He has been a most valuable player a record three times . |
| 19 | He has been a most valuable player a record three times . |
| 20 | When I pulled down her eyelid and saw the dead white conjunctiva a knell sounded in my mind . |
| 21 | We call our rather unusual breed a Poodorbox ! |
| 22 | Those who attended the Q.T. Day on 3rd April were in general of the opinion that a Saturday would be preferable and that a more specific attraction a film , talk , classes with or the Reunion event itself . |
| 23 | In a more serious case a report from a consultant , usually an orthopaedic consultant , will be necessary . |
| 24 | It puts into operation on a more comprehensive scale a proposal for English teaching pedagogy that I myself put forward , speculatively , as appropriate for the Indian context ( Widdowson 1968 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ We share with another more famous service a tradition of silence . ’ |
| 26 | For a more pragmatic course a book such as Programming Embedded Systems with Ada by Valerie Downes and Stephen Goldsack would be suitable . |
| 27 | Is it a question of economics , because if they were more efficient , that is if they used less fuel to get a given mileage , is it a question of the companies involved being unwilling to put the money into the development costs , or would cars that are more efficient cost a lot more money to buy ? |
| 28 | Obviously , when a post can not be filled by a British executive because it requires a more cosmopolitan background a client would turn to headhunters with a strong overseas network ; and there was a general feeling that in these cases long-established major international search firms were preferable . |
| 29 | Prince Charles spoke out on a visit to Oxford , the day after Central broadcast a documentary detailing the persecution in Iraq . |
| 30 | And the day after Central broadcast a documentary on the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq … revealing how communities are being destroyed … the Prince condemned Saddam Hussein for claiming the marshes are only being drained for agricultural purposes . |