Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult . |
| 2 | More than 40 per cent of the output is exported to overseas markets : the equivalent of over 300 million pints annually or almost a million a day . |
| 3 | About half a sample of consumers who had used the Building Societies Ombudsman or the Insurance Ombudsman felt their schemes were not fair enough and nearly a third questioned their independence . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , events of this century have shown how suddenly and dangerously a fascist group can burst from the fringes of political life . |
| 5 | But while the UK has become suddenly and significantly a net exporter of oil it has gradually lost its self-sufficiency in gas . |
| 6 | I could hear Sorley thumping around inside and then a distinctive whine and a sort of humming stutter . |
| 7 | By the time dinner has been eaten and evening prayers conducted it is eight o'clock and about a hundred people have gathered . |
| 8 | Clark found that around half of his sample had travelled only 10 miles or less and only a tenth 40 miles or more , with women tending to move over shorter distances than men . |
| 9 | A ‘ good ’ book is basically and essentially a good story . |
| 10 | At club level these divisions are often relaxed as all boards sail together and only a maximum sail size rule is imposed . |
| 11 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 12 | Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings . |
| 13 | The audience too seemed miles away and only a few coughs could be heard . |
| 14 | She then took her father 's hat from his head , laid it upside down on the sand , rocked it backwards and forwards a few times , then upset it . |
| 15 | This can usually be done by bending it backwards and forwards a few times . |
| 16 | Thus But Hence a useful alternative expression for the partial fraction coefficients is in terms of which and The final result here is referred to as the Heavyside expansion theorem . |
| 17 | The overworked and gloomy chef in the main dining car had not lost his temper altogether and only a few passengers had grumbled that the roomettes were too cramped ; the most usual disgruntlement , George said . |
| 18 | She breathed in slowly and regularly a few times , then got shakily to her feet . |
| 19 | Right and probably a few other things . |
| 20 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 21 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 22 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 23 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 24 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |
| 25 | ‘ We had more or less a free hand . |
| 26 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 27 | The Education Minister in the AIG , Farooq Azam was reported on July 2 as having resigned claiming that it was " more or less a dead organization " . |
| 28 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 29 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 30 | On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more . |