Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Picasso obviously had a more forceful and dynamic personality than Braque , and this had impressed itself strongly on influential critics such as Apollinaire , Salmon and Vauxcelles , with whom he was more friendly than was Braque . |
| 2 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 3 | The United States also has a far greater ethnic mix than Britain . |
| 4 | Marks and Spencer also sell a very good Blanc de Noirs . |
| 5 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 6 | Warwick too had a very good performance and er , and maintained its er , attendances . |
| 7 | In 1951 , Scotland eventually ran a much more fancied Welsh side off their feet and won going away , but there was no question of exercising a clinical control virtually from kick-off to no-side as there was last Saturday . |
| 8 | They connived together : Emma taking a little more of Ruth at intervals ; Rachaela gladly giving a little more . |
| 9 | Theodore thereby gave a wholly new dimension to the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury within the Anglo-Saxon Church . |
| 10 | IBM already has a very modestly parallel four-CPU system , the Shared Memory System Power/4 , available on special bid since December 1 . |
| 11 | James Wilby and Sally Anne Field both offer a more tangible and less clinical love story than the dangerous liaison between the game-keeper turned heart-poacher and the sex-starved adulteress . |
| 12 | IBM also runs a very successful bureau service here in the UK and in many other countries throughout the world . |
| 13 | Sainsbury also claimed a comparatively modest rate of usage of headhunting , preferring to concentrate even more on long-term policies of training up graduates . |
| 14 | WordStar now has a much friendlier set of drop-down menus , which means you do n't have to remember those cryptic keyboard shortcuts . |
| 15 | ‘ You mean … ’ and here Mr Hadley actually hesitated a little , ‘ they were making love ? ’ |
| 16 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 17 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |
| 18 | For no particular reason , Monday always seemed a little dull . |
| 19 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 20 | This high note was sustained as Maurice later compered a traditionally Amicable evening . |
| 21 | But the consensus is that Commander Tim Laurence probably has a little more upstairs than the man he has replaced in Princess Anne 's affections , Captain Mark Phillips . |
| 22 | But just in case the bed failed to live up to his claims , Dr Graham wisely installed a more familiar sexual stimulus in the form of Emily Lyon , who took the form of Hygeia and danced naked for the clientele . |
| 23 | And erm they had a , obviously a very productive meeting and , and it , they did n't say a lot about it but overall they said that really Roger and Helen now had a much better understanding of the direction we wanted to go in in the future and were pretty supportive of it really . |
| 24 | Einstein originally proposed a very small cosmological constant in the hope of balancing the tendency of matter to make the universe contract . |
| 25 | I think much will depend on the weather , but Cambridge really have a very big chance of winning this boat race . |
| 26 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 27 | Stirling later made a particularly telling comment when he said that ‘ the agreement of three architects in any particular section would render it quite impossible for the other judges , as unprofessional men , to record an adverse opinion ’ . |
| 28 | However , Jenkins also identified a far larger third group ‘ ordinary kids ’ who fitted neither of these two extremes and developed a range of survival strategies in and out of work and a pragmatic acceptance of their position . |
| 29 | Water condition : Slightly acid to neutral water with a pH of 6.5–7.0 Will also tolerate a very slightly alkaline condition , then the leaves will grow slightly puckered , and turn dull in colour . |
| 30 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |