Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 2 | The DCSL ( who , interestingly enough , was an active member of the library committee throughout the period of the project ) reports its beginnings in : what was very much a very small group in the school … a certain group of people who were keen for something like this to happen … |
| 3 | Under the urban direction of Radio 4 broadcaster John Ebdon — he of the ‘ distinctive dark-brown voice ’ according , that is , to the planetarium 's press handout — the London Planetarium is very much a peculiarly British institution . |
| 4 | Apparently a physically accurate copy of bass playing 's Big Daddy . |
| 5 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 6 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 7 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 8 | It also does n't actually really mention Estella , so it is basically a rather bleak ending for Pip as he does n't get what he really wanted . |
| 9 | Course , as Derek says , his mate is basically a very decent bloke . |
| 10 | It 's basically a very powerful anaesthetic . |
| 11 | I 'm basically a very private person , but I 'd probably tell Pete things that I would n't tell anyone else . |
| 12 | We look forward to a long a mutually successful relationship ’ . |
| 13 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 14 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 15 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 16 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 17 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 18 | There are many different causes of uncertainty and those which are explicitly due to GIS-based manipulations of geographic information are merely a more recent problem . |
| 19 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 20 | There may be merely a less direct link . |
| 21 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 22 | I think one of the main reasons why we would support the inclusion of a Policy erm E two in the structure plan is because North Yorkshire is adamantly a very rural area and therefore whatever happened in that rural area must be a strategic issue . |
| 23 | Incidentally , the truss rod nut is located just inside the soundhole , instead of up at the headstock ; it 's perhaps a slightly heavier system , but easier to adjust . |
| 24 | Girls sniff too , although , perhaps a slightly smaller proportion than boys . |
| 25 | But it would be less obvious to produce a whole description of Dr Demulch in perhaps a mildly humorous vein : " Dr Demulch was a brown man . |
| 26 | Clearly the relativistic approach of Becker is self evidently required in one form or another in any sociology of deviance , and it is perhaps a rather miserable reflection on the state of the discipline that such an elementary argument is ignored by those who see it as clashing with their struggle for admission to the club of natural science . |
| 27 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 28 | This is perhaps a rather dramatic solution to the problem of how you treat gender on television ! |
| 29 | It is an attempt , perhaps a rather naive attempt , to apply information theory to decoration . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps a little subtle shading ? ’ she suggested diplomatically , and Kathleen surrendered . |