Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth . |
| 2 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 3 | It is almost as much a foreign country to me as it is to you . |
| 4 | It is merely a rough guide to the general sentencing levels that this court feels is appropriate , and allowance needs to be made for inconsistency on the part of the Court of Appeal itself ( Thomas , 1993 ) , plus the considerable ‘ latitude ’ which is normally allowed before it will interfere with a sentence passed by the Crown Court . |
| 5 | Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 6 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 7 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 8 | This means that in particular colonial discourse analysis is not merely a marginal adjunct to more mainstream studies , a specialized activity only for minorities or for historians of imperialism and colonialism , but itself forms the point of questioning of Western knowledge 's categories and assumptions . |
| 9 | In this sense , daydreaming is purposeful — not merely a random response to a superfluity of mentally unoccupied time : |
| 10 | The archives contain some extremely impressive examples of recognition by administrators of the fundamental rationality of Masai pastoralism , at a time when pastoralism was generally considered to be merely a primitive prelude to the development of agriculture , and pastoralists obsolete relics of an earlier phase of human history . |
| 11 | It is perhaps a physical impossibility to be as aware of a bitter as of a sweet taste , but a toothache relentlessly pulls wincing sensibility to itself . |
| 12 | Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin . |
| 13 | Because I , I 've received a letter erm from a parishioner , if I can find it , er which I have photocopied for everyone , which I think was a direct response to the fact that there was something in the magazine and perhaps a direct response to other meetings and to a general feeling as well . |
| 14 | Perhaps a brief reference to some of the careers in which former students have found historical skills and knowledge useful would not go amiss . |
| 15 | And perhaps a little bit to spending the £750 which was also part of the prize . |
| 16 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 17 | He was obviously a good boss to work for . |
| 18 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 19 | erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married . |
| 20 | This is obviously a terrible place to be caught in bad weather or poorly acclimatised . |
| 21 | This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen . |
| 22 | In most cases , divers working at those depths tend to reach the limits of maximum bottom time , and so a speedy assent to the surface is not desirable . |
| 23 | And so a rapid return to the Lakes became a priority for me ; a desire I shared , it seemed , with every cold front kicking around the South Atlantic . |
| 24 | So a chilly start to Saturday , but any mist and fog will soon go . |
| 25 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 26 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 27 | That 's our fun now , not fun itself , only a tired allusion to it . |
| 28 | As we shall see in Chapter 3 , this conception of measurement , although originally proposed as an account of scientific measurement in general , bears only a superficial relationship to much of measurement in science which is an activity much more integral to substantive theories than it is in most social research . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 30 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |